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The only problem is that there's no way to make a recurring payment even if I wanted to, which would be more sustainable than one-time purchases.

If you really need a computer and don't have the budget for one that costs $600, then don't get a $600 computer. There are plenty of old office PCs on eBay that you can get for less than $100 and they should be fine for only homework. Just search for "Office PC" on there. This is not the place to be asking for money, but I hope you find something that fits your budget and that university goes well.

Grocy seems to match what you're looking for.

I've never done anything like this myself but maybe Sunshine with Moonlight might be worth a look

Kind of, you can share individual albums so it is possible to share all but one. This may or may not be practical though depending on your album structure.

Another option is to share your entire library but archive the photos you don't want to be seen.

It would be good of there was an official feature for this but these are currently the two best options.

My only advice would be to go full NextCloud at first for simplicity instead of trying to integrate it with other services.

That being said, if later on you're looking for a way to store images I'd highly recommend Immich, I just finished setting up my own hosting setup a few days ago and it is gorgeous.

Here in Scotland tourists are always fascinated when we talk about the wild haggis running around.

I always take out those paper ads that are attached to the top of the seat if front and turn them around so I'm not staring at them for a 5 hour flight.

Oh yes oops! I'm not sure why I thought polybar ran on Wayland, I probably was thinking of yambar.

Not for polybar but you might like to look into SwayNotificationCenter, I use it as the notification daemon of my hyprland setup and it has all the previous notifications in a menu with a do-not-disturb mode. I use a keybind to open up the menu but you could add an icon to polybar that when clicked runs swaync-client -t to toggle the menu.

That's great to hear. Hello and welcome to Lemmy!

That is quite a tricky situation to handle, there will be the option to suggest edits though so hopefully over time the arguments on each side will get clearer even if they were heated at the start.