Nextcloud it just too heavy I totally agree, and everything feels slow and sluggish.

For just files I use Syncthing and couldn’t be happier, it just works in the background without a central server just syncs the files between phones, PCs and laptops by itself. I set it up like 5 years ago when I had enough of Nextcloud and to be honest most of the time I forget that I have it, but I use it every day to sync my password database for KeePassXC, my music, my private and work documents between all my devices.

Thanks for posting this clarification. This way it makes total sense. After 3 days even if I forgot to save something I probably don`t remember about it.

Most of the time the VPS provider offers some backup solution. It’s not only about your configuration files which can easily be recreated, but about all the user data like pictures databases, etc. Which once lost can’t be recovered.

Best practice is a 3-2-1 backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

But you could back up your stuff on your laptop if you want, it’s not such a bad idea actually. For that you trigger the backup script from your laptop, you can do it automatically there too. This makes sure that the laptop is on while you’re doing the backup.

The easiest way is a crown job and a bash file which runs a couple of rsync commands to get specific files and directories from the server via ssh.

A more involved way would be a backup system like restic, which does a lot of things for you but is a bit more involved to set up.

Auto correct changed “it’s” to UT’s.

You need kind of a beefy server which is not worth it for one or two people. That is why I installed PieFed instead which does the same but plays nicer on a small VPS with fewer resources.

I thought WeeChat is the Chinese everything app?

I had a similar problem with Lemmy, UT’s not optimized for small instances.

I went with PieFed und am very happy with it.

This sounds good, the partner acceptance factor is always one of the biggest struggles. Technology is easy :D

I. Build a PC for video editing because it was becoming impossible to do on the laptop. I realized that I can use the GPU also to run large language models myself.

So this week I’ve been setting up ollama and Open WebUI to be able to move some of my queries I ask ChatGPT and ask them on my computer, even if I’m away.

This way I don’t need to send sensitive data to the USA and China. It works quite well but I only can use smaller models up to 14B because of the 12 GB VRAM my graphics card only has.

Hm, so you just used some cards to make links and icons somehow for that? But then I would need to replicate it on at least my dads and our instance.

Ah personalized ones, also a good idea

Actually I feel there are many very good suggostions here already like:

• Homepage
• Heimdall
• Static page with HTML links and CSS
• homarr
• Flame
• organizr
• Jump
• glance

It’s more than I expected already.

How do you share your managed bookmarks with your wife, father, children, siblings?

I have everything in bookmarks but the discoverability of them in my browser is not very good for the rest of the extended family.

Is there a way to categorize the apps or is it just one list? I feel I have to many of them to have just a list.

Hm interesting, no icons and no status indicator. At the same time over time you probably got it into your muscle memory where to press quickly. It’s intriguing.

I think you will need to have a mix, not everything is S3 compatible.

But I also like S3 quite a lot.

Yes this is the main reason for me. If you’re alone then you don’t care that things occasionally don’t work. Once you have at least one more person or potentially the extended family it’s a whole different story. And then in my opinion a potentially not 100% secured publicly accessible immich instance at home is magnitudes better than having the family just use google photos.

Because like you say, every little hick up from your site is met with “why can’t we just use $bigtech instead, it always works”.

What about home assistant? Me and the Family quite often use the HA app on the go, sometimes even from other computers like at my parents or in a hotel to check on the house and the cat. I also gave my dad access to it so he can see if we’re at home and things like that.

Same with my dads HA.

So there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail2ban which helps already to some degree.

But what are you trying to prevent? You have your services in a docker container, hopefully not running as root, which already makes it difficult to break out even if through a bug someone would be able to get access to the docker container.

I mean its not like your stuff is very important for someone to break in like the pentagon, you probably just have some photos from your phone on it, some lights can be switched on and off and some temperatures read.

I’m not trying to say that you should not care about it but I’m trying to figure out what your threat model is.

I just shoot the picture myself with the phone camera.