Thank you! I'll look into it.

Thank you, I'll work it out based on what you've told me.

I'm scared to these 'breaking changes' even though I'm not exactly a self hosting newbie. That's because I don't have a proper 3-2-1 backup and I'm afraid I might lose my photos or settings. I've been exploring of setting up immich through a homeserver management tool like runtipi that allows taking backups separately that can be reverted to, in case something goes wrong. Anyone aware of any negatives about that?

Yes, the other answer also suggests this and I think this will do the trick. Thank you for your response.

I came across a reference to kdeconnect while reading related stuff but I really looked it up after your comment. I'm using Debian on my machine and am currently using free version of Remote Mouse which allows very limited actions without posting. Kdeconnect sounds like it could take care of that and more. I just hope it supports two person controlling the same PC.

This will be in complimentary to a physical button IR remote that I'm aiming to implement after this post. Thanks.

I would like to replicate your setup in the future. How do you connect between the two machines, using tailscale or something like that?

Another such application that I wish had easy implementation for what you call base URLs is Apache Superset. Such a great application that I'm unable to use in my setup.

It definitely is a major consideration, mostly because things work more seamlessly when they belong to the same ecosystem. With my past experience, it is very difficult to switch from one to the other and that is why I'm consciously making an effort to rely more on open hardware/software.

I've heard good things about H2O AI if you want to self host and tweak the model by uploading documents of your own (so that you get answers based on your dataset). I'm not sure how difficult it is. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in.

Unknown to OP, it has now changed 11 hands over the years. Also unknown to OP, it is coming back to them as this year's Christmas present. OP is going to be very happy about it.

No, that's not it. I'm comfortably safe at 8 gigs.

Fascinating watch!