Sure, if you just want upload / backup it’s not worth it. If your currently happy with nextcloud then there is no reason to try immich.

But I highly recommend to sometimes view old photos to keep the memories alive.

I haven’t looked into the nextlcoud add-ons, but didn’t have a great experience with the ones I tried so far. In general I’m not really happy with nextlcoud even for file sync / share, but I haven’t found any replacement, every thing else is much worse.

Because it has a lot of photo specific features:

• face recognition: enables you to (mostly) automatic tagging of who’s in the photo
• map of images, e.g. look at all the images you have taken in Italy
• (local) AI to search images by keywords, e.g. “sunset at the beach”
• memories: what happened on this day in the previous years

These are just the ones on top of my head, but you’ll probably get the idea. If you just want to back up you photos then nextcloud is more than enough, but you’d probably enjoy the immich features once you used them.

Regarding the two copies: you can use immich on an external library, so you don’t have to have to copies.

It’s like asking why should I use paperless when I can just keep my documents as PDFs in my nextcloud.

Have you checked out Battlerite? Not sure if it still has an active player base or it’s working on Linux.

As some who has played maybe 30-50% of DOS1+2 and currently the first of three acts in BG3: If you have issues with the gameplay mechanics in DOS1/2 you’ll likely have them in BG3 too. Main difference is a vastly improved storyline, which kinda makes up for most of them.

Issues I still have with BG3 boils down to only the active character can use its abilities in conversations and sometimes (mechanically) unexpected stuff happens that can only be undone by saves.

If your issue with DOS was a boring story and lack of hidden/funny things to uncover you should give BG3 a try, if you disliked the overall experience you likely won’t enjoy BG3.

I got myself a vertical mouse and no longer grind down my wrist on the table. Definitely worth every penny.

I used to have the Microsoft Explorer mouse which is a bit larger, I used it for over 5 years per mouse. The old version is no longer available and the new one looked terrible, that got me into looking for alternatives in the first place.

But if you’re okay with the default mouse sizes and don’t have other issues they are fine too.

As someone who had a mildly unpleasant interaction with kernel folks, I can totally understand the issue.

This is one of the very few open source projects I had the feeling they don’t appreciate new contributers. There is no on boarding material available and picking the wrong subproject mailing list results in being ignored. You have to spend days without any possibility of help and if your are lucky you get mentioned as a reporter. For the next issue you start from square one as there was no guidance, so you could only learn the bare minimum.

So yeah, his patch may be underwhelming. But the help and credit he got for days or weeks of unpaid work was basically nothing. You may be okay with spending days and only getting credits for the bug report, but I suspect many aren’t and will not contribute again after such an experience. And post like this try to point out the issue they have and why many people won’t contribute to the kernel ever again.