That stupid Auto Start/Stop system. A lot of vehicle manufacturers adopted this stupid feature. Kia included. I don't see the point. Quite frankly, I see nothing but a huge safety hazard. What if you're dealing with slippery conditions? What if you're in snowy climates? What if there is no time for that when dealing with speedy drivers and heavy traffic?
What does any of that have to do with the start/stop system?
Especially older models from the second hand market can get tricky, as getting supported drives will be harder each year. Also, you cannot simply put 18TB drives in there and expect them to work. Also also, a lot of them require SAS drives.
IF you're going the secondhand enterprise gear route, check which drives you can actually use in them. The Dell will likely only take a dozen or so drive models, sometimes locked down to Dell-flashed firmwares. And those can be expensive.
You know how many server apps will ask for an email address?
Heck even immich asked for an email address! WTF! Ask me for my mastodon or my Lemmy address!
Most people have one or more email addresses (the OG federated messaging system) and email notifications pretty much "just work". Compared to email usage, Fediverse users are a rounding error.
randomly the pi will just be on the home screen instead of full screen chromium.
Sounds a bit like the system running out of RAM and killing off Chromium.
system specs?
OS?
do you monitor your system continually?
does Immich itself show any signs of failure? Because reconnect on browser reopen sounds like it keeps working. OR it restarts automatically, but that shouldn't kill Chromium.
Do you have room for a HDD? Power budget, monetary budget, SATA ports?
The good thing is that a mechanical HDD is still loads faster than needed for serving media, unless you're hitting massive user numbers, so there's usually no need to put media on expensive SSDs.
Define "safe"?