Microsoft is known for making things “optional” at first then eventually forcing it down everyone’s throats. Removing offline accounts is one of them.
It’s not so much the technology itself is malware, but its behavior replicates that of malware.
Next time, use a VPN so it doesn’t all show in the US.
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.
The same way you have a lock on your front door “just in case”. It’s not emotional. It’s logical.