…And other signs that you may be in a cult.

Why use a software that requires an involved workaround when there is software available that already does it?

Nothing against NextCloud, buy it’s not the only solution available, and people have different needs.

They have similar licences.

NextCloud server is AGPL 3.0

OpenCloud server is Apache 2.0

Not OP, but having files and folder structures accessible in the OS helps with a lot of tasks and interoperability.

If I want to add media files to Jellyfin, etc, I can’t just drop them into the video folder remotely because I have it mapped to a particular folder on the drive. If I want to make a copy of a large folder, I first have to mount the cloud as a “remote” drive, then do the operation from there.

It’s much easier to access files and folders outside of a database if they are needed for anything outside of the cloud service. I know that there may also be some security and efficiency factors that make a database favorable, but in terms of ease of use, it is just more effort to use a fileserver that operates through a database.

1. I like to own the stuff I buy.

2. I don’t want to pay a corporation a monthly fee to access my own data.

3. I don’t want a corporation or government to have unlimited access to my stuff.

Having come from zero knowledge, to now self-hosting for over a year, I can tell you that you just search for them one at a time. Sometimes they will make sense. Sometimes not yet.

Stick around here, ask questions, and look things up.

No, they already have Metapedia for that.

Great! Love this app!

Right now I’m using Jellyfin for my music server. If I ever switch back to subsonic / navidrome, then you’re my number one pick by a mile. Thank you for making this!

The voice recognition is honestly the best I’ve ever used. It’ll be a shame to give it up.

If I decide to switch keyboards, I’m certain I would go back to HeliBoard.

There’s been a real explosion of open source voice recognition over the past few months, and I haven’t tested a lot. Whisper+ looks like a promising one. Before using Futo, I used Sayboard, which I was pretty happy with.

Immich it licensed under AGPL 3 and the code is open - isn’t that FOSS?

I know some of their apps are licensed under a semi-open license of their own creation and that’s been touchy to say the least. But is it true to say that none of their apps are FOSS?

Maybe it was a bad idea for society to put 90% of the internet on one company’s infrastructure.

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We can hope

The fact that helium is such a rare, irreplaceable, and scientifically useful material makes it wild to me that we use it to fill kids’ party balloons.

Those morph suits from A Scanner Darkly are looking less and less unhinged lately

Also, you will need to do some preprocessing of your files before importing to immich. Something like this to fix the metadata. I can’t remember which one I used, because there are a few out there.

Well, you won’t like it. If you have very fast internet and a managed downloader, then you may be able to get all of the files. Google seems to throttle the speeds to make large takeouts almost impossible to download in the limited time allowed.

For this size of download, your best option is to get a subscription to a compatible service (Dropbox, etc.) To transfer the files, which will happen much more quickly than downloading yourself. Then download the files from that service at your leisure, and then cancel the service.

It’s pretty backwards, but it’s really the best option for large takeouts (over 5 gigs or so).

I’ve found radicale more stable in my implementation, but both are very good and are pretty similar to use.

If you already have NextCloud/OwnCloud it would be a good to use the Calendar that is already built in, but it doesn’t make sense to install those for a calendar when there are better options available.

I can see a use case when it comes to search - like you said. If the question is relatively trivial and slightly obscure then a LLM summary is probably adequate (maybe problematic for other reasons).

But this is being marketed in Productivity software! I really and genuinely want to understand why it seems so popular.

That has sorta been my experience so far. LLMs are great at producing output as long as the quality of the output doesn’t really matter. Maybe there are a lot more tasks than I realize where this is the case - in my work there are not many.