Personally I’d steer clear of the cheap polyester ones on Amazon. I’ve had some luck with the more expensive microfibre ones but the cost does start adding up.

I’d second the point about upholstery fabric. I’ve made one from upholstery velvet which I’m happy with, it hangs well and I got the fabric pretty cheap but once up, the pile does need brushing in a consistent direction to make it catch the light consistently.

At our place it’s the IT guys trying to tell us to exclude the entire Downloads folder. One of our devs had to put her foot down and say no, we’d do something more sensible/limited instead!

I use digikam, photos live on my NAS which is mounted locally at the OS level, and the db file is fully local but backed up to the NAS. Perhaps not exactly what you’re after.

That’s all fun and games until someone turns invisible (or in my case, wildshapes into a spider and blends in with the dungeon floor)

I’ve fought these twice. One of them full on killed our cleric.