I've found Nextcloud to be fantastic, its why I started self hosting.
Ive run Nextcloud on a Pi4B with 4GB ram & external HDD with just one user. I also sync Joplin notes, which I use constantly. Additionally used Collabora Office on the phone for syncing office docs. i was happy with this set up for a long time, had no issues really, synced between a couple of desktops & a phone.
Eventually treated myself to a Pi5 8GB ram with NVMe & an Argon fanless case. Main reason for upgrade was an additional Nextcloud need - to share holiday/trip/event photos with multiple non tech savvy older family members via the Memories plug in. This set up has been absolutely rock solid, absolutely no issues & for my needs has been blazing fast. Memories is great too for quick & easy sharing whilst away. The family members love it (Nextcloud is exposed behind Nginx Proxy Manager, I send them a read only public link for Memories)
As they are quite intensive I recently migrated Immich & Paperless from Pi4B 4GB to a Beelink EQ14 but I see no reason at all to migrate Nextcloud from the Pi5.
Bingo. Self hosting is my first exposure to Linux, I'm still a novice. Just migrated a couple of my Pi servers onto a Beelink EQ14. After a bit of reading i decided to install Ubuntu server on it purely because I'm more likely to glean answers from online forums & the like when inevitability hit a barrier.
I'm highly likely to dual boot my laptop/switch to linux Mint soon too
Once had problems with an internal drive so each device I run uses an external SSD/HDD. Anything important that has an "export data" or backup option such as Paperless I'll export/backup & put that into Nextcloud. Nextcloud files are synced between multiple desktops, one of which then gets automatically backed up to a separate drive each week.
For all my other self host stuff I since deployed Kopia to perform nightly local backups of each thing I self host. Once per month a Kopia backup for each software gets moved to a separate drive.
On top of that, things I deem as particularly important get encrypted in Cryptomator & uploaded off site.
No doubt there's probably better/easier ways but thats my current workflow.
Until they enforce government ID verification on every website & ban VPN's. Mark my words, that's what they'll try to push under the guise of "save the children"
But AI shit crammed into literally everything. No sir, I hate it sir.
I dont work in IT so I may have misconceptions so I'm open to being corrected. What I dont understand is general AI/LLM usage. One place I frequent, one guy literally answers every post with "Gemini says...". People just dont seem to bother thinking any more. AI/LLM doesnt seem to offer any advantage over traditional search & you constantly gave to fact check it. Garbage in, garbage out. Soon it'll start learning from its own incorrect hallucinations & we won't be able to tell right from wrong.
I have succumbed a couple of times. One time it actually helped (I'm not a coder, it was a coding related question which it did help with). With a self host/Linux permissions question it fucked up so badly I actually lost access to an external drive. Im no expert with linux, Im learning & managed to resolve it myself.
AI answers have been blocked from DDG on all my devices.
My previous bank does this sends an SMS. Extremely insecure & also pointless if a would be thief has my phone (if im stupid enough to use no/easily guessable PIN) or has compromised it.
Is there not an argument that password managers have been around long enough now that anyone reusing logins & easily guessable passwords responsible for their own stupidity? We all know not to leave our doors & windows wide open when we go on vacation.
Invisibility. Always invisibility, I could have some fun with that. Reading minds would make me paranoid about everything & end up sending me batshit insane. I'd end up in a psych ward.
For me not at all. I'm old enough to research & shop for what I need rather than impulse buy. Tech wise I dont very rarely see any ads at all thanks to strong ad blocking & general privacy consciousness. I try to stick to open source only & fediverse is the only social media I use. For YouTube I never sign in to so I'm not affected by the algorithm & never see ads on it ever (channels I like are in a Joplin note synced between devices). Broadcast TV is recorded via HTPC & ads stripped before episodes are fed into Jellyfin.
I dont "get" influencers. Even back in the day I used to ask why celebrities always put their name to perfume/aftershave as I'd only buy what I liked the smell of regardless of the brand/name.
Yeah, I know I'm an outlier, even my mates take the piss.
I share a similar stance on general street surveillance by the likes of Ring. But on the flip side I understand that people may want to extend the scope of security cameras onto the street due to vehicle vandalism for example, so I make sure to smile my sweet smile when I notice them.
Thanks to @Charger8232@lemmy.ml & @irmadlad@lemmyis.fun for yet another perfect example of what I love about Fediverse, this is why it's so much better than "the other place"
Yup. It stops on my machine & my photos are organised how I want them organised. Immich is privacy respecting & the learning is performing an actual useful task in facial recognition & I believe contextual search.
I dont trust Microsoft to do either & I'd certainly not want them organising anything.
I forwarded this to my neighbour who is really into self hosting, particularly home automation stuff - has a pretty awesome Home Assistant set up. First thing they said? "But I'm 70, this only goes to 69"
I told him in that case he must dismantle his self hosted servers immediately 😁
...a single plank costs 70 quid and I have no car at the moment and timber merchants don't typically deliver wood to your door
I recently purchased a single OSB board & the local. Wickes branch delivered it for about a fiver. Delivery service was new to me. Whether they will have the length/type of wood you're after is another matter but worth knowing.
For me its not worth the hit on battery. Mind you my phone screen is 3088x1440 WQHD+ capable yet I set that to 720p. Sure, the image is a tiny bit better at higher res but for me I'd rather have a stronger battery life than a marginally better looking image on such a relatively small screen.
I'm 100% self taught. I'd never used Linux before I got my first Pi & struggled to get Nextcloudpi working, which I did eventually. But support came to an end so maintenance was going to become an issue so I had to learn.
I found this excellent video on how to read Docker requirements & apply them step by step into Portainer. He explains slowly & methodically exactly what he is doing & why.
Portainer is a method of handling Docker stacks/containers via a web UI. Both Docker & Portainer are simple to install.
It's easier to use Docker Compose files and/or .env (environment variable) files (both are even simpler to deploy through Portainer) but this video taught me what was going on & gave me confidence to have a go. What attracted me to Docker is you can easily remove stacks/containers if/when you make a mess rather than wiping the drive & start again, which is how I went about things initially.
This gave me the tools to set up Nginx Proxy Manager & I never looked back. Highly recommend a robust backup solution as stuff will inevitably go wrong along the way (I see Borg, Restic mentioned often, I went for Kopia).
I can't recommend highly enough making detailed notes along the way. I rely on my Joplin notes all the time.
One more tip. Once you start using Docker, dont fall into the trap of using the "latest" tag. If you know the version number its far easier to re-deploy if an update is bad.
Enjoy your new time consuming, teeth clenching, frustrating ...and rewarding hobby 👍
I've found Nextcloud to be fantastic, its why I started self hosting.
Ive run Nextcloud on a Pi4B with 4GB ram & external HDD with just one user. I also sync Joplin notes, which I use constantly. Additionally used Collabora Office on the phone for syncing office docs. i was happy with this set up for a long time, had no issues really, synced between a couple of desktops & a phone.
Eventually treated myself to a Pi5 8GB ram with NVMe & an Argon fanless case. Main reason for upgrade was an additional Nextcloud need - to share holiday/trip/event photos with multiple non tech savvy older family members via the Memories plug in. This set up has been absolutely rock solid, absolutely no issues & for my needs has been blazing fast. Memories is great too for quick & easy sharing whilst away. The family members love it (Nextcloud is exposed behind Nginx Proxy Manager, I send them a read only public link for Memories)
As they are quite intensive I recently migrated Immich & Paperless from Pi4B 4GB to a Beelink EQ14 but I see no reason at all to migrate Nextcloud from the Pi5.