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  • Thanks for clarafying. That sounds like a genuine reason to use a synchronizing program like Nextcloud, to share files between devices frequently.

    I don’t know much about syncthing but I hear a lot of people talking about it. Perhaps someone else can shed some light to it. But as I experienced Nextcloud about a decade, I consider it belongs to a hard-to-setup, high-maintenance tier. I’ve had my moments when I failed to upgrade and resorted to nuke it and set it up anew.

    I shall also share that I’m currently running a dead “distro”, TrueNAS CORE (based on FreeBSD), which abandoned by the company. As a result, my Nextcloud is stuck at version 28 and I don’t have the energy to do a manual upgrade.

    If you have made up your mind to set up your own Nextcloud instance, my recommendation is to buy a genuine industrial grade motherboard, put some ECC RAM in it, and use an OS that’s meant for servers (no Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora shit). You shall also setup RAID or use ZFS to mirror your hard disks to prevent bitrot. And I definitely do not recommend you save your valueable data on some random general purpose hard disks or even “like new” secondhand ones. There are hard disks meant for NAS out there.

    Or, you know, Nextcloud Inc. sells prebuilt Nextcloud hardwares.

    And do ask for more opinions on !selfhosted@lemmy.world.


  • In which way do you plan to transfer your photos to the backup storage? In the picture I can see a camera and I assume it uses an SD card. I would, if I were you:

    1. Buy a consumer grade storage device with USB port, like those desktop storage towers from WestDigital
    2. Build a RAID with it if the data is important enough
    3. Connect it to my computer and just run rsync

    Some storage tower even comes with an Ethernet port and a web interface. It’s practically a personal “cloud”.

    Nextcloud is resource heavy, slow, hard to setup, and hard to backup/restore. This is from someone who has been using it from when it was Owncloud.


  • It’s a piece of software which runs on your computer.

    If you find a so-called “web app” which runs in your browser, two things may be happening: 1) Someone took the effort to port an open source app (like InkScape) to run in a browser 2) You are using someone’s hosted service and they steal your information as the fee.

    There’s also the option of taking your file to one of your local print shop, where they make it into a poster and charge you some fee.

    You either pay money or effort.






  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlSelfhost offline software
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    A piece of software always runs locally. It is in some cases those who needs to communicate with the server fail to deliver the usual function you expect when offline.

    Please do not confuse one to another.

    And perhaps you can start by complaining which services you are using heavily rely on the server side? General questions attract general answers and IMHO you are better off just search on the internet.





  • 1/10 Do not recommend

    Want to learn? Buy a current computer (secondhand to save money) that has a blazing fast CPU, shit loads of RAM, and any AMD graphics card. Running into trouble is no fun for beginners. You’ll quickly feel depressed and lose interest.

    For the learning part, follow any distro’s official installation guide and do it step by step. Learn which part of the systems does what, and how to set it up, how to debug.

    And stick to Ethernet connection before you get comfortable. (Shitty) Wi-fi ICs more often than not have driver issues.

    For the old laptop, sell it for parts if you’re not feeling nostalgic.

    For the last time, buy a new computer, please.




  • Back in the day when embedded devices are running Linux kernel 2.6, the kernel is gzipped and saved to an SPI flash, then extracted to RAM and run from there.

    Does that sound immutable enough to you?

    The decision on this design wasn’t for an immutable system, but just that flash chips were expensive. Immutability was an accidental achievement.

    Actually we developers dreamed every day we can directly modify the operating system ad hoc, not needing to go through the compile-flash-boot agonising process just to debug a config file.

    You see, my point is, when a system is in good hands, it just does not break. End of story.

    Maybe the next time before you guys press Enter after pacman -Syyu (not exclusively saying your distro is bad, Arch pals, sorry), think about the risk and recovery plan. If you are just an end user expecting 100% uptime and rarely contributing (reporting bugs at least), consider switch to a more stable distro (I heard Debian is good), and ask yourself if you want an immutable distro, or do you just want a super stable system.