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Plan sounds fine to me, debian + immich in docker + tailscale is pretty much the boring setup and boring is good for a box in a shed. one thing I'd do before carrying it out there, install tailscale and ssh, reboot it a couple of times and make sure it comes back on its own without a screen, because walking to the shed with a monitor gets old fast. also something like uptime kuma on another machine (or your NAS) pinging it, so you know it's down before you're on holiday and the photos stop uploading. I run a box at home I only reach over tailscale and that's the part that saved me most.
Boring is what I'm aiming at, so I'm hoping that scope-creep doesn't get its little pernicious claws into the plan. I've got a couple of months before I leave, so I'll get the thing set up in here, all my current photos backed up etc, and hopefully all my troubles shot before it goes out to its final resting place. I'm planning to get all of my notes etc to live on it eventually as part of my move away from Apple's walled garden, but I've met myself, so taking it all one step at a time is better than bowling in and trying to get 42 docker apps running all in one go. Start with one or two services, and work my way out from there. Uptime Kuma is a good shout, I'll look into that, thanks