AngeTheGreat on YouTube is pretty famous for having written a car engine simulator purely for simulating the sound that they make - https://youtu.be/RKT-sKtR970 is a good launching point

Can you help me understand what you mean by “ Unless you’re autistic, like me, 5 days is possible”? Are you saying you think you can’t learn to draw in that time frame because of your autism?

Perfectly server grade, the way the manufacturer intended

I go with characters from Super Mario, eg Luigi, Bowser, Yoshi. I like them because they’re short, easy to type and memorable.

In case people don’t know, https://namingschemes.com/Main_Page can be a good source of inspiration.

I used rclone to get all my photos down, then I used Immich’s bulk import API to get everything into Immich just yesterday. I did about 14k photos.

Take note of the limitations of rclone though, it won’t get the original full resolution - https://rclone.org/googlephotos/#limitations you need to use Google Takeout to get full resolution.

Depending on your comfort level and setup, you could use LVM. Then the differently sized hard drives wouldn’t be such a problem.

Or if you want a much more complex situation, you could set up Ceph. It will also give you redundancy, but it’s a really steep learning curve.