We were told it was not optional coming home from an international flight last month. However, our toddler was with us and nervous and they said we could opt out for him. I said great, thanks. Picked him up while we were talking and I wasn’t really thinking about where I was holding him. The agent looked over, smiled and said hi to get their attention, and I saw him take the image, seconds after we verbally opted out. Sigh.

Oh! I just realized we have a Yolink hub connected to Ethernet, and it’s online. So yes, Ethernet is working and WiFi came back online after a router reset. Now I just need to figure out how to make sure this doesn’t happen again…

Thanks, we’re in the US and use a small local ISP that just serves our general area. I keep this account anonymous so wouldn’t give specifics.

hAP ac² router, belongs to the ISP. Unfortunately I don’t have an Ethernet cable handy to test with at the moment.

Our WiFi hasn’t come back yet so I’m probably an hour away from a really awkward phone call 😮‍💨

There really is no rock bottom for how fucked this situation is, is there?

I used to have a few of them. Everyone who saw them thought they were diseased, but they were just my cute mini vultures to me 🤣

So people are supposed to get excited about voluntarily scanning their eyeballs and giving the data to a private company to prove that they’re a human, to theoretically protect themselves from AI imposters generated by… The same dude’s other company. And people are actually doing it because crypto bribes.

Goddamnit, Black Mirror is supposed to be a cautionary tale, not aspirational. I’m so tired.

This is the corect answer

I’ve seen them recommended before and had been wondering about finding a trusted server to have it hosted. I’ll check out Hetzner, thx!

Sorry to inform you this is real, we apparently are in the timeline where The Onion became reality

Link looks awesome, thanks! Do you also keep a separate cloud backup of your photos in case your server is damaged (like in a disaster or something)?

Once I bounced a check to our water company and they refused to take checks or credit cards from me for a YEAR as a punishment. It was a one-time accident after paying on time for around seven years. I literally had to drive my ass down there with cash. It’s a small rural water service, not a big corporation - they chose to be complete assholes even after I explained the situation (we had a baby that month and forgot a monthly $ transfer in the chaos).

Same mistake probably cost us $120 in overdraft fees. Society financially punishes people who need money the most and rewards the people who have plenty. It’s ridiculous.

Is raspberry pi pretty easy to set up? Or if you were starting over would you go with something else? I have a windows laptop and an android phone, so that’s the extent of what I’m familiar with so far. But Immich does look so promising!

One of these days I’ll have the bandwidth to learn about self-hosting. It seems like there’s some real benefits and cool stuff out there. For now, I have a toddler taking up most of said bandwidth as well as copious amounts of photo space 😅