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Bulk delete assets (images and videos) from Immich

My reddit thread on this TL;DR: I messed up while importing a big library into immich and need to roll this back somehow. I’ve a semi large immich setup (5tb) with 2 users. I mistakenly uploaded around 500GB of assets into other user’s account instead of my own account due to my messup of the API keys through immich-go. I was wondering if there is a clean approach to fix the ownership issue…

How to know if your laptop is bypassing the battery and using AC power directly

I do lots of self hosting and some of my machines are old laptops with lids closed.

How to understand the discrepancies in the hard drive lifetime (smart farm logs)

Preface: The discrepancy doesn’t mean that your hdd is bad. It’s an input for decision making. I use this to spot “new new” drives vs “refurbished but sold as new” drives especially on amazon.

Solution of error getting credentials - err: exec: “docker-credential-desktop.exe”: executable file not found in $PATH, Docker on WSL Ubuntu

Hit an error today, solution is very stupid, so I had to blog it here.

Mount exfat with read write access

My external hdd i’m trying to mount to debian NAS server through usb is giving me permission denied access for write; it can only read which is not enough for my use case.

Fixing always portrait apps in Huawei Tablet (Harmony OS)

I got a cheap Huawei Tablet (Mate Pad Air) last year with very very good hardware, amazing screen, super snappy. All my tablet-worthy apps (photo/video editing and kids coloring pages apps) work great so it’s definitely a good deal for me. Among all the annoying things (no Google Play Store, not-as-apple-pencil quality stylus, inferior OS experience etc), the apps lock themselves into portrait…

Enable x265 (HEVC) hardware decoding in Raspberry Pi 4

My Emby Server struggles a lot during playing x265 formatted videos, it gets stutters every 3-4 seconds. Very annoying. I resolved like this:

Solving “Error: TRIGGER_PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE: This request would cause a function payload exceeding the maximum size allowed” in firebase realtime db

I was using this piece and it stopped working in one night:

Solving “Invalid JWT: Token must be a short-lived token” error while using firebase realtime db on WSL

I keep hitting this in my Windows laptop with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). This is the full error:

Fixing mongodb start error code 14/n/a

Stupid errors today.