LOL. But i was tired and the logos don't at all look the same.

sorry for the late reply, https://documentation.immich.app/docs/features/read-only-gallery is how you do it. There's no ui way AFAIK.

You can include external folders to just be indexex/Metadata and keep the original as is

Tried to read up on it and it semester like you have to enable it per conversation.

The poop-knife.

I actually find traefik rather nice to work with. I have a few Middleware chains set up, expose service using labels and add the chains to make sure I get the appropriate settings.

I would look at this https://youtu.be/uaixCKTaqY0 in regards to nginx proxy manager. It might not apply to you but worth knowing at least.