Nothing like a little floating plastic pile in the middle of an ocean can’t fix.

Just start. Even the most tech savvy of us started not knowing any of this. More importantly do what you’re interested in and that benefits you. You don’t have to have some grand implementation. Start simple and the rest follows.

I think this is fine. Blender and CAD are better in different use cases. But at the end of the day use what you’re comfortable with.

I’ve used blender for the longest time simply because I know it and I’ve used it for other things. Recently I learned FreeCAD to the point where I’m comfortable doing basic things with it.

Personally, I’d say no. At that point you are administering it, not hosting it yourself.

The only issue I’ve had was when Immich doesn’t have enough memory. Immich is a memory hog and will slowly creep up its memory usage over time. Eventually it’ll crash and restart itself. Docker still shows it running, but the server its elf cannot be connected to.

It sounds like it might be related to this.

I usually use a dehydrator for ~3 days on my drives to make them shelf stable. So far I haven’t had any issues.