Immich all the way my dude.

Use Archlinux. Reason ? Because you will be able to say " I use Arch btw".

Btw, I use Arch.

I would never go back installing something without docker. Never.

Capitalism does not work well when companies are too big. No one can compete unless you are already very rich. That sucks.

I wasn’t sure of the word. Cute is very good to describe this!

FOR SCIENCE!1!!

It is possible. As long as the protocol allows sending bytes of data controlled by the user which XMPP allows.

You would basically wrap http with XMPP. You need a server that would understand XMPP, read the payload, create the http request, do the request for you, wrap the response with XMPP and send it back to you.

You can do that with DNS as well which would bypass probably everything. However, your bandwidth wouldn’t be great.