Moonrise2473
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- Comment on Google Pay alternative? 1 day ago:
the alternatives are worse
i’d rather go back to barter than using paypal, for example
- Comment on Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox 2 days ago:
If you want to just use it exclusively as a Nas, then why not truenas?
I have a unRAID server but the nas part is nowhere as good as truenas (slower, worse ad integration)
Main issue with virtualization is the bootable USB with the serial number that’s used as DRM
- Comment on Lemmy is probably hurting email spammers because users and community names look like valid email addresses. 2 days ago:
They also monitor new website registrations and immediately spam info@newdomain
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 1 week ago:
intel gpu = any integrated graphics from any intel cpu made in the last 8 years. This includes those crusty $10 celerons, don’t need a dedicated intel arc gpu (unless you’re streaming to dozens users at the same time)
detail of supported formats en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
- Comment on Recommendations for Hardware for Physical Media/Jellyfin Server 1 week ago:
nvme for videos seems expensive for nothing, unless you are serving 4k videos over a 10gbit connection to multiple users
- Comment on Is Radicale the way forward? 2 weeks ago:
Owncloud infinite scale is a rewrite of owncloud(=nextcloud) in go, it supports local, nfs and S3 mounts. Change the smb share to nfs and it might fit you
Disadvantages are:
- All the plugins need to be rewritten, so if you need some extra feature, it’s going to be missing
- They got acquired by a company that sells an expensive alternative for corporations (RIP? Who is paying millions to maintain a free alternative/competitor?)
- Documentation is inferior, community is much smaller
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
Bought two and one of those died within 72 hours.
It was really weird, first it became read-only, then it zeroed by itself, but it still was read-only, no program was able to write on it, even aban (dban is dead)
Now the replacement has more than 2 years but i downgraded it in a low activity server
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
I’m also using that drive but it likes to stay toasty, it’s always in a 60-65° C range even with a low activity
I don’t really like that. Bought an heatsink and it improved a bit
- Comment on Cheap, but reliable SSDs? 2 weeks ago:
I noticed that the prices of SSD almost doubled in the last months. I bought a 2tb nvme for 89 euro and now it requires almost the double
WD and Seagate are using the AI hype as an excuse to increase prices on both SSD and HDD. They say AI bros are buying too many drives to store the models. I find this not really believable. Normal models are a few hundred GB, I don’t think that they’re pushing so much the demand
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 8 is now available 2 weeks ago:
I’m using nextcloud and I like it (also I don’t see all this slowness even if I run it on a core i3 8100) but it’s the general stance from the devs
Everything it’s announced like it’s ready to the public when it’s just a proof of concept (not even alpha)
Another example is the mail plugin. It’s an unusable early alpha yet on the blog there are three posts starting from four years ago talking about inexistent features nextcloud.com/?s=Mail&wpessid=1612
Same for the forms plugin. Early alpha that doesn’t have an essential feature like emailing responses to specific addresses (it sends notifications via nextcloud). Again the blog talks 4 years ago like it’s ready for everyone.
Or the Trello clone. Many problems like it “ruins” the tasks sync by creating read-only tasks that get synced via caldav.
Or nextcloud photos, big post in 2022 but it’s very barebone
Or docs, so many posts yet it has so many problems.
Or the desktop client, where builds are pushed to regular users without testing the installer script (forced reboots without confirmation, crashing explorer.exe instead of asking a graceful restart)
The only NC plugin that I’m using without problems and that I feel it passed the beta stage is Music and its subsonic compatible server. No blog posts about it. Maybe because it’s hosted on owncloud GitHub repository
- Comment on Best options for entry level 3D printing available these days? 2 weeks ago:
With the prices I saw, just a few prints costs like buying an ender 3 but without the fun of maintenance
- Comment on Nextcloud Hub 8 is now available 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t help that every nextcloud official announcement promises the moon while delivering not even stardust.
Example: this blog post from two years ago: nextcloud.com/…/plan-your-next-trip-with-nextclou…
None of the features written in that post are available, even today
It’s something that it might be coming in a decade if someone is inspired by the mockups and codes it. When you install the maps plugin it shows a map of the world, and that’s it.
If they need to announce a concept that only exists as a mockup, either publish the news on April 1st or write “concept of how maps might integrate with nextcloud 50”
- Comment on Used NetApp 6TB SAS for 38€??? 3 weeks ago:
For what I saw there’s a good chance it has a custom firmware that makes them unusable outside the walled garden
- Comment on In search of software for managing like a helpdesk but in a lite format 3 weeks ago:
I like freescout.
It is well made and aesthetically pleasing but it has four main problems
- The devs are complete assholes. Ask for a clarification because of missing documentation and they ban you from their GitHub repo without even replying.
- The program is open source but everything is under closed source paid plugins. Plugin pricing is very cheap and without subscription but in order to get the bare usable minimum you need to spend at least $50 in plugins. I had to compile an excel file with the list of 50+ plugins and rank them, so I could buy the $400 of plugins over an year, buying the most important in the beginning. Then they banned me because after the first purchases I asked help with one of their paid plugins. Well, thanks for let me save $390, I won’t buy anything anymore.
- Plugins have unfair regional pricing for some reason. $2 becomes €4, even with vat the math doesn’t add up. They take the amount in dollars, convert in local currency using unfavorable exchange rate and rounding up, then they add VAT and round up again. With 40 “must have” plugins, this trick becomes expensive for no reason. Why Europeans have to pay double? It’s a business expense in 90% of cases, so the vat shouldn’t be considered in the price because a business can deduct them.
- No support. At all. Even if you are willing to pay for it. They don’t want to set a forum, use GitHub discussions or even (ugh, I hate that but better than nothing) discord. For a program that’s used for business this is a bit of a problem. How a company can rely on a software where if something is missing from the documentation and you ask for help, you are simply banned&ignored. You discover than you’re banned when a week later you go to see if someone replied to you. I don’t see why they can’t have a $50/hour support package like anyone else.
As an alternative, there’s uvdesk. It’s similar but when I discovered it I already set freescout with the bare minimum paid plugins like “see all emails”, “see list of customers”, “send later”, “add attachment to the email”.
- Comment on Migrate from nextcloud photo backups to immich? 3 weeks ago:
Webmail is comically slow and laggy even if it permanently stores every single email in the database. It also doesn’t prune them after deletion and that’s a huge privacy issue imho. The fact that it’s saving all the emails in clear on the database Is concerning for use outside self hosting. Even if it could be set to do end to end encryption for files, in this way the admin has full access to all emails from all users (well, actually, thanks to the impersonation plugin it has access to everything and it doesn’t even give a “admin has logged in” notification).
Also, even if it’s this slow, it’s incredibly barebone.
I replaced it with snappymail which is way faster even if it doesn’t cache any email in the database
I tried many webmail software and I didn’t see any of them storing emails on the database. Afterlogic, roundcube, squirrel, they’re all reading them from IMAP with no DB. But they’re much faster. What’s the point of storing millions of emails on a DB if the software is 50x slower than something that doesn’t do that?
- Comment on Which of these VPS providers would you recommend? 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing if they want to run syncthing they have a lot of data to store and linode/do is expensive for that
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 5 weeks ago:
Well at least finally after three long years Microsoft added the option to combine icons on the taskbar.
Without that option, explorerpatcher was a forced install on w11
Now it’s possible to live without it
- Comment on Usborne 1980s Computer Books 5 weeks ago:
It sees that I’m with a different browser locale and it automatically redirects to a different website, that gives a 404 error. Hate those “helpful” sites with a passion
What’s the content of the page, downloads of books from the 80s?
- Comment on Selfhosted systrem to monitor daily incoming email (backup reports) 5 weeks ago:
i always tell myself to write something like this but then i never have the time or the willing to do so…
i’m interested too if there’s this
- Comment on Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why? 1 month ago:
Is it possible to do that? Afaik they don’t allow to use different name servers if they’re registrars
I had the domain on a registrar that didn’t allow changing name servers (Tophost for 6 euro per year) and I had to “hop” with ovh for 60 days before having cloudflare for a registrar as they didn’t allow to transfer the domain with different NS
- Comment on octopi tip - get a Usb-a power blocker 1 month ago:
My ender wasn’t communicating with a cable modded like that
- Comment on Simple authentication for homelab? 1 month ago:
unpopular closed source option: cloudflare access after a cloudflare tunnel
- Comment on I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade 1 month ago:
Update:
Today just to show the bug to someone else, I installed the update via Winget on a windows 10 PC and… nothing. It installed silently, didn’t bother with asking a reboot nor crashed explorer.exe. So I went to another windows 11 PC and tried again with the silent updater and… silently updated without badly crashing explorer.
Either nextcloud fixed the installer for real or Microsoft fixed the reason explorer was crashing in the windows update that was pushed yesterday
Finally the days where all the explorer windows will disappear when updating NC desktop are gone?
- Comment on I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade 1 month ago:
Installed via Winget, the problem is that the installer is buggy and crashes explorer.exe leaving the system in an unrecoverable state (even if you run it again via taskmgr, the menu bar is broken)
- Comment on I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade 1 month ago:
You’re right but if an installer renders a computer inoperable until reboot (tried in another PC, same result, doesn’t only kill explorer.exe because if I run it again via taskmgr, the taskbar is broken and non functional until reboot) it means it has been pushed to the “stable” channel without being tested a single time.
The problem is present since 2021 and it’s a bit ridiculous now github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/3551
In the topic you can see the devs “ok fixed in next release” => next release didn’t fix it (=nobody actually clicked the exe before releasing, it just passed all automated tests), then “ok so next release gonna fix it”, and again again
It has been said to gracefully restart explorer.exe instead of crashing it, it still chooses violence for a restart. It asks “do you want to reboot” twice.
I like having the bleeding edge stuff, running nextcloud in docker under the “latest” tag, but those are clearly nightlies
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- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 2 months ago:
Me too
I’m guessing from the thumbnail and title that Microsoft said that Minecraft users need to merge their Minecraft account (100% in Microsoft hands) with a Microsoft account. The user said no because reasons and then now they can’t play
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 2 months ago:
Instagram? Yes because now it’s Facebook with a different skin
TikTok I don’t think so: main problem with FB/IG is that you’ll get “friend requests” from all your family, and the algorithm is really strong on snitching you. Eventually you would need to create custom viewing permission lists (which nobody does) or stop posting stuff if you don’t want getting comments from your family. With TikTok you get videos from strangers and your videos gets shared to strangers, it’s unlikely that the algorithm pushes your stuff to your relatives
- Comment on Selfhosted photo manager kind of like Jellyfin 2 months ago:
i think you will like pigallery2
while you could install node via rpm, you really want to run this in a docker container
- Comment on Media center under 100€ capable of 4k video 2 months ago:
I can’t hear the fans of my Lenovo m920q even if I’m running a burn-in test
And it consumes 10w during use which is comparable to many SBC once you consider that you have nvme, SATA, WiFi, two display port, lots of USB 3 ports, thunderbolt via USB c and an additional PCI express slot