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That's the ideal use case for snapraid.

Nextcloud, syncthing, immich. These are just a few, I'm sure there are more.

These remind me of the discussions around year 2000 on photo.net about how digital pictures are useless and how bad is digital compared with film:

• you can see the pictures directly on the film
• you can buy film at the corner store and have "infinite memory", it's much cheaper too (they didn't count that you'd reuse the flash and take more pictures than you could ever afford all your life on film!)
• you can print the film and make paper pictures in 1h mostly everywhere
• you could share these with your parents or send them via snail mail and so on
• prints and film last for centuries or so and people have this or that old picture but lost their Word document they were working on last week

We know how that ended, and film cameras ended being mainstream WELL before phone cameras started to be any good.

In a move that mirrors the current situation with flash only two categories were left with film:

• power users that weren't satisfied with the resolution that you could get from digital cameras at first (as now we have DHers who can't go to SSDs because of the size they need)
• "lost in time" users that didn't know things moved on and picked up their film camera for vacation, like we have every now and then someone asking about 500GB or 1TB spinning rust

The answer is ALWAYS 42!

RTFM?

7.13 smartctl DISK/PARITY OPTIONS...
Defines a custom smartctl command to obtain the SMART attributes for each disk. This may be required for RAID controllers and for some USB disk that cannot be auto-detected.
DISK is the same disk name specified in the "disk" option. PARITY is one of the parity name as "parity,(1,2,3,4,5,6,z)-parity".

In the specified OPTIONS, the "%s" string is replaced by the device name. Note that in case of RAID controllers the device is likely fixed, and you don't have to use "%s".

Nonsense, in most cases you won't be even able to fit a larger drive as it'll be 15mm thick.

Traditionally RAID is for uptime or speed, this isn't that (actually quite the opposite). If you want to do an extra integrity check one of the popular ways to do it is to use a file system that has checksums, like zfs or btrfs.

I tried immich with the external library and gave it the pictures from 2023 for now, run first into the issue with the models for ViT-B-32__openai not being available for download; there were multiple github issues about this, I got them and put them in (supposedly) the right place, still it didn't work, tried multiple sources, after a few hours gave up and updated the docker (which downloaded quite a bit of data, even if the version I had was just installed) and with the new version it downloaded by itself and used fine the models and everything. I'm still getting some spurious errors now and then when scanning the files and from github this seems to be seriously "work in progress" but overall seems to be moving BLAZINGLY FAST (which is a first for me with such programs), including but not limited the map module which is one of the most important ones for me (I'll see what it does with 20 years of data, instead of 1 but that's another story).

I just now realized: this is a Google Photos clone! It's kind of fine, as there's no learning curve, but this is why it doesn't care about subdirectories and everything.

The situation is kind of disappointing, more like hopeless I'd say for power users. Photoprism is by far the best I've found too, but still isn't replacing Google Photos, where I still dump everything too, and I go there more often than not to find stuff. Of note about Google Photos is not only the uncanny face recognition, I have a person with pictures from literally 0 years old to I don't even want to calculate what age now, "driving age" anyway - but beside faces and things it also does OCR (text), which can be VERY useful. And it's also processing videos, too!

I don't think there's much to do except the usual: reboot, change the cable, try another machine (PC), etc.

THIS.

The html is already text. If you want to take out formatting and kind of show it how a browser would just use a text browser, like lynx, with -dump if you wish:

       -dump  dumps the formatted output of the default document or those specified on the command  line  to  standard
          output.  Unlike interactive mode, all documents are processed.  This can be used in the following way:

              lynx -dump http://www.subir.com/lynx.html

          Files  specified  on  the command line are formatted as HTML if their names end with one of the standard
          web suffixes such as “.htm” or “.html”.  Use the -force_html option to format files whose names  do  not
          follow this convention.