gedaliyah

@gedaliyah@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This community isn't your personal adviser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! This drives me crazy. I will sometimes go back and edit posts to add more info months later.

  We have all been in a situation where we are looking for a very specific answer, and the answer only exists in one obscure forum from a decade ago that has the exact info we are looking for.

  It’s hard enough to ensure lemmy’s long-term fidelity without people axing their own content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booklore Alternatives/Forks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who is not familiar already:

  Calibre is a desktop application that has some file hosting/syncing features.

  Calibre-Web is a server software that uses the Calibre library files, but can operate independently after setup.

  Calibre Web Automated is a server software based on Calibre-Web with an overhauled UI and many additional features including automated ingest, OIDC, KOsync, file conversion and fixing, and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use Colota?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I found it. I was looking in the wrong place and going in circles instead of clicking through the documentation one screen at a time. How embarrassing!

  You are 100% right that it is spelled out very clearly. Thank you for the patience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use Colota?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for looking into it. What URL did you enter in the server endpoint? Is it just the HA domain? Or is it another link that I have to get from HA? I’m sorry if this is a dumb question but I genuinely don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibly underrated: CopyParty. Its an entire fileserver in a little over 1 MB. You can host it on anything that runs python and the client can be anything with a browser. It’s unbelievably simple and efficient. If I knew self hosting was this easy I would have started sooner.

• Does anyone use Colota?colota.app ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a good self-hosted calendar frontend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also had pretty good testing with One Calendar, but in general I prefer open source apps unless the proprietary app offers unique benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a good self-hosted calendar frontend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wish they would spin off the Calendar into a standalone app, but they haven’t shown any interest in moving that direction. I use it for email anyway so I don’t mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booklore is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame, it was a great project. Guess I’ll be migrating to calibre-web automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a good self-hosted calendar frontend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks promising. Thunderbird works great for me for now. There are increasingly good solutions for mobile as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For document editing, I have had fairly good luck with OnlyOffice, although it is not without its issues. Others also recommend Collabora, which plays well with NextCloud and LibreOffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  DAVx5 basically acts as the connector between your server and your calendar/contacts/files apps. I would imagine that this could be built into an app, but there are a lot of ways that such apps can sync or operate locally. I’m guessing that it is just a little more specialized than most developers want to get.

  Thanks for the Syncthing-Fork tip! For now the official version is working for me, but I’ll have to migrate myself soon.

  From my understanding, OpenVPN provides the same secure remote access as Tailscale, by a slightly different method. You should be fine to use what you’ve already set up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done this.

  For contacts, calendar, and files, I use OwnCloud, although NextCloud is as good/better. I couldn’t figure out Self-Signing certificates, which is supposed to be pretty easy, but I am kind of a dummy. NextCloud requires it. On my phone, I use DAVx5, and I replaced the GrapheneOS stock apps with Fossify apps as needed - although that is up to personal preference.

  For photos, I use Immich, which is hands-down the best option.

  NextCloud also has options for document editing, photo backup, and notes, but I can’t testify to those.

  Syncthing is an ideal way to seamlessly sync files and folders between devices, but you will end up with the files on both devices. I use it sparingly, and they are phasing out android support. It’s still very useful to migrate large file libraries and act as a stopgap for other services.

  There are tons of notes apps, and it largely comes down to preference. I settled on NotallyX, which can import your Keep notes directly (using Google Takeout iirc). It also has the option to store files externally, which means they can be synced for backup. There are also self-hosted web-apps, like Memos, or the slightly more adventurous Blinko.

  I got a lot of great input from this community not too long ago.

  The one Google feature I am not able to reproduce is Google Messages. If you use texting to any degree, there are some FOSS apps with pretty nice basic features (I’m using Fossify which is nice). However, there are none that have solid group-messaging features, reactions, and other RCS capabilities. It seems to be a technical/logistical/legal hurdle that is presently insurmountable. Lots of people don’t use texting anyway, so it may not be a concern for you.