I’m still figuring out my new toy. I’ve done little enough that I could redeploy if needed. But it works. All the bits fit together. I can install apps and extend my system.

I guess I expected something like googleapps. The interface is more like onedrive. I got CORE going. Gonna build a mailserver this week and hook that up.

Well, I have file transfer between mobile, desktop,and server. If I wanted to edit my resume on the fly, and have that be THE new version, thats do-able. I started uploading some favorite music, and that was my first actual “use”. I can listen to these things anywhere. Cool! High quality stream, too.

So … what are you doing with your Nextcloud?

  • JASN_DE@feddit.orgEnglish
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    18 days ago
    • file storage and syncing, especially my wife’s 70GB of school material
    • automated smartphone photo backup
    • note-taking
    • calendar and contact endpoint
    • hooked in Collabora for web document editing capabilities

    I set it up not to be an “all-in-one” do-everything system, just a stable base to handle all our files and related things.

      • dbtng@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Ok. It keeps suggesting that I install kanban and whiteboard.
        I sorta miss having an office whiteboard. I might use it.
        And kanban, well I sort stuff out in Notepad documents. Kanban is good for teams tho, truly useful tool.

        I’m using it to shuffle files around. At some point, I guess its going to be THE file storage location. My pics probably get uploaded. My docs with logins and accounts and all that. My identity docs. Personal stuff.

        Boy, right now that sensitive stuff is at home, locally stored on SSD drives that are not likely to just go poof, and I’ve got an external drive with a full copy as well. So I’m not going to lose it where its at. The cloud server is going to need backups, possibly even back to my own homelab (where I have proxmox and plenty of storage).

        And then, its not like I have any secrets. I don’t. I’m really boring. But I imagine things like credit card info, financial records, copies of my driver license, etc would be a target. I’m gonna need to lock down the server before I really trust it. This is not my forte; my usual job is building things so people can access them in an already secured environment. Nope, this is a server with all my favorite toys and info out there on the internet and subject to abuse.

        I know I’ll be enforcing several types of restriction, starting with an SSH key, on to geoblocking, and maybe app keys (barely know what that is). The security aspect of the server build seems likely to challenge me, and as I discover what’s needed, and possibly have to backtrack on my build if I did things wrong.

        … It just occurred to me … I’m never gonna lose my list of kareoke songs again. Way cool.

  • dbtng@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’ve just discovered the “Music” app. It seems kinda simplistic, but its doing the basics better than just playing the files. I’m pretty sure I’ll continue to use it.

    This is another point where the Nextcloud way of doing things was unintuitive for me, but it all works fine.
    In order to play a bunch of music, you must first either use the smart playlist, or create your own playlist, which is a drag and drop process that took me a while to figure out as well.

    That’s all fine and it works, but the way most music players work is that you play a song, and that opens a player window. Then you add more music to it.
    Here in Nextcloud, you can play one song. Or you can play a bunch of songs. But the first thing does not smoothly lead to the second. Playing a single song or playing a group of them are two different processes.

    It sounds good. All of my music streamed from Nextcloud has sounded really good.
    Am I imagining that? And it seems silly. But I keep noticing better audio presence from my nextcloud streams than playing files locally in VLC.