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Interesting 🤔 I’ve never heard of orb. This is the second similar project I’ve gotten responses about. I honestly had no idea anything similar ever existed. Why are these not more popular? I can see a million different use-cases for apps such as this.

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520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Why are these not more popular?

Because the use cases for these are very niche.

Those who simply want access to their files will find Google drive much easier.

Those who need advanced access will use RDP or SSH instead

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- mhredox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Google drive isn’t self-hosted though, and they charge for any significant amount of storage.
  
  I’m running Ubuntu server, so there is no desktop to access via rdp, and I don’t have to open an ssh port to access this. I still get all of my files, while also being able to put it all behind 2fa and grant as much or as little privilege as desired.
  
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  - 520@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Google drive isn’t self-hosted though,
    
    Doesn't matter to most people, and for those it does matter to, there's OwnCloud and a ton of other options
    
    and they charge for any significant amount of storage.
    
    Storage costs money, dude, and GDrive don't cost much.
    
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  - zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    mhredox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks!
    
    I tried nextcloud initially. It seemed a bit bulky and slow for me, with a lot of extra stuff I wasn’t going to use. I know you can disable features and customize it, but it just wasnt really a good fit for me.
    
    This initially started as an exercise to find out what is possible and see what I could manage to do by myself. As I progressed, I started realizing the possibilities and am so far very happy with how it’s turning out.
    
    I honestly didn’t realize there were so many existing alternatives (orb, ArozOS, etc). However, this is built entirely in react and can therefore load and run any JavaScript/HTML easily as a plugin. I think it’s a bit more modular than the alternatives in that sense.
    
    Either way it’s been a fun project to work on, and it fits my needs exactly how I want.
    
    After seeing all the responses I’ll very likely make it all open source so maybe others can contribute and customize it for themselves. Although I am a bit shy to release my code to public scrutiny lol 😂. I have a bad habit of not leaving comments and I’m sure there are plenty of places where people will point out flaws and wonder why the hell I did x instead of y…
    
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