Hello #immich #homelab friends.

Looks like a recent update to the onnx runtime adds telemetry back to Microsoft. Because *of course* we cannot have nice things.

As far as I can tell, none of this has to do with Immich per se, it's a change to an upstream runtime. To the best of my knowledge, none of the telemetry goes to immich.

You can stop the telemetry with:
- Adding `ORT_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` to your `.env` file, and/or
- Using pi-hole or another ad-blocking DNS server to intercept and block the requests.

PLEASE DO NOT PILE ON THE IMMICH TEAM. This looks like a tiresome update to a dependency and not any intentional action on Immich's behalf.

More details can be found in the github issue here:

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/30729

All my recovered lithium cells are balanced, and they seem to accept the power bank housing I've placed them into. Next step will be to see if they charge, which I do very gently with recovered cells.

#reuserepair #18650cell #solarpunk

Hey friends,

If you have tech skills—and many of you do—look for ways to reach out to your communities and help them de-enshittify their lives, even if it's just a little.

Help them install uBlock Origin. Introduce them to F-Droid. Consider setting up NextCloud or Immich for your family or neighbours. Show them alternatives like DuckDuckGo or Fastmail. If they're on Windows then help move them to Mint¹ or run Win11Debloat². Help them join Mastodon.

Talk to your local library or community centre about running a free session.

One of the impacts of enshittification is that it intentionally keeps people away from even hearing about alternatives. I genuinely feel the place to fix that is on the local level. We keep each other safe.

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¹ Or whatever Linux distro is most friendly these days.

² https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat?tab=readme-ov-file#win11debloat

Woo! New #Immich release with upgraded face-recognition sharing getting very good reviews and feedback.

If you've been looking to get your photos off "the cloud" and onto a private, open source service that you host yourself, then now is a really good time. Face sharing has been a bit of a roadblock for a lot of people (especially families), but not any more!

https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v3.3.0

#SelfHosted #Homelab #photography #DataSovereignty