I too use Nextcloud & Joplin on all my machines. I also have LocalSend on desktops & phone as another option for quickly firing something over. Because I’m a nerd I also keep a copy of LocalSend portable on my keyring flash drive “just in case I need it” (I’ll almost certainly never need it).
I settled on Kopia myself but I always seem to see the others mentioned
Oldie but Goldie & the saddest song I’ve ever heard: Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
Ive used OsmAnd+ for years & I still find it confusing to find specific settings! Thankfully OsmAnd settings can be backed up & exported/imported.
That said, several times in new cities in both in my home country & abroad late in the day, it’s found us places to eat, toilets, late night supermarkets etc etc. I was grateful to the mappers & I vowed to do the same in my home city suburb to help any fellow visitors who find themselves here. I kept my word & mapped it extensively though I’ll not reveal where.
Several months ago we visited a European capital for a city break, the public transit navigation in OsmAnd was fantastic. The offline wiki articles are amazing when visiting new places.
Top tip: utilise the “Quick Action” shortcut button. Add fuel, parking, parking location, wiki & “show nearest POI”. You can toggle them on/off in an instant when needed
These days only when they break. Had a used Note 20 Ultra for 3 years. Brilliant phone but the screen broke. After watching the Fold range & thinking we’d been beamed into the future I finally took the plunge & got a used Fold (an older model for the S Pen compatibility).
What I would say is some apps that were broken on the Note work fine on newer Android version (for me, YouTube on Firefox used to kaput after exactly 60 seconds).
Fully intend keeping this bad boy until Android finally shits itself with the whole sideload debacle & all the general war on privacy/FOSS. Hopefully Linux phone will become a viable alternative
I too use Keepass2android offline, never had a sync issue though recently I inexplicably encountered an issue where the keyfile couldnt be found or had become corrupted on mobile. This may have been a phone thing rather than a Keypass thing as I never had such issue in many years of use. Luckily I had the forethought to keep an encrypted backup so I was back up & running quickly.
If I remember Keepass allows pdf attachments without restriction which is excellent for vehicle insurance, breakdown cover etc as its good to have these available offline anytime “just in case”. I think this feature is restricted in Bitwarden (though maybe not Vaultwarden).
I once bought our son a transparent practice lock picking set. Great fun. Not the cheapest but he has since been able to repay me many times over from the proceeds of various jewellers shop robberies & bank heists
Not really new but something new to me - OsmAnd public transit.
I’m a big fan of being able to use my phone offline. I use OsmAnd all the time, ditto Joplin.
We were lucky enough to visit Budapest recently. I always plan interesting places, tickets, restaurant menus etc in Joplin & add locations into OsmAnd.
We made use of the offline capabilities of OsmAnd public transit. Absolutely fantastic!
Best 3D movie that wasnt Avatar? Dredd was awesome in 3D.
Most of my family said the active glasses induced headaches.
I use Nextcloud Memories for uploading folders to quickly share to relatives. Love it, very straightforward for them to use.
I also host Immich but unlike Memories not exposed, local only. I set Immich up because we found we never looked at our photos when they were just stored on a hard drive but we look at them much more now theyre easily accessible. I spent months slowly retrospectively tagging & adding geo locations to our photos in order to utilise the powerful search capability of Immich. I use the template option & set it up to match the folder structure of our photos.
I’m using Kopia to back up the entire Immich directory including the nightly Immich-db dumps & ive also moved a backup of the backup to another drive, currently somewhere in the region of about 80+GB.
I have a couple of USB Hauppauge TV receivers in our HTPC which I use with NextPVR. I cut the ads from the recordings then bang them into Jellyfin
I’ve found Nextcloud to be fantastic, its why I started self hosting.
Ive run Nextcloud on a Pi4B with 4GB ram & external HDD with just one user. I also sync Joplin notes, which I use constantly. Additionally used Collabora Office on the phone for syncing office docs. i was happy with this set up for a long time, had no issues really, synced between a couple of desktops & a phone.
Eventually treated myself to a Pi5 8GB ram with NVMe & an Argon fanless case. Main reason for upgrade was an additional Nextcloud need - to share holiday/trip/event photos with multiple non tech savvy older family members via the Memories plug in. This set up has been absolutely rock solid, absolutely no issues & for my needs has been blazing fast. Memories is great too for quick & easy sharing whilst away. The family members love it (Nextcloud is exposed behind Nginx Proxy Manager, I send them a read only public link for Memories)
As they are quite intensive I recently migrated Immich & Paperless from Pi4B 4GB to a Beelink EQ14 but I see no reason at all to migrate Nextcloud from the Pi5.
I couldnt give a flying fuck what this clown thinks. My brand new Beelink EQ14 came with Win11. Its now running Ubuntu server
Bingo. Self hosting is my first exposure to Linux, I’m still a novice. Just migrated a couple of my Pi servers onto a Beelink EQ14. After a bit of reading i decided to install Ubuntu server on it purely because I’m more likely to glean answers from online forums & the like when inevitability hit a barrier.
I’m highly likely to dual boot my laptop/switch to linux Mint soon too
Once had problems with an internal drive so each device I run uses an external SSD/HDD. Anything important that has an “export data” or backup option such as Paperless I’ll export/backup & put that into Nextcloud. Nextcloud files are synced between multiple desktops, one of which then gets automatically backed up to a separate drive each week.
For all my other self host stuff I since deployed Kopia to perform nightly local backups of each thing I self host. Once per month a Kopia backup for each software gets moved to a separate drive.
On top of that, things I deem as particularly important get encrypted in Cryptomator & uploaded off site.
No doubt there’s probably better/easier ways but thats my current workflow.
Until they enforce government ID verification on every website & ban VPN’s. Mark my words, that’s what they’ll try to push under the guise of “save the children”
Actual AI for scientific research I’m OK with.
But AI shit crammed into literally everything. No sir, I hate it sir.
I dont work in IT so I may have misconceptions so I’m open to being corrected. What I dont understand is general AI/LLM usage. One place I frequent, one guy literally answers every post with “Gemini says…”. People just dont seem to bother thinking any more. AI/LLM doesnt seem to offer any advantage over traditional search & you constantly gave to fact check it. Garbage in, garbage out. Soon it’ll start learning from its own incorrect hallucinations & we won’t be able to tell right from wrong.
I have succumbed a couple of times. One time it actually helped (I’m not a coder, it was a coding related question which it did help with). With a self host/Linux permissions question it fucked up so badly I actually lost access to an external drive. Im no expert with linux, Im learning & managed to resolve it myself.
AI answers have been blocked from DDG on all my devices.
I still feel like I’m living in the future using Paperless though I feel I must use it differently to everyone else as i haven’t felt the need to automate everything as it doesn’t always tag things to match my own specific tagging system.
For those that do automate everything, how do you overcome naming of documents? I want the scanned documents to have human readable names rather than the naming format of my scanner (or phone on occasion) or the naming format of XYZ company emailing me a document because in a catastrophe situation I want to be able to easily find & retreive vital/important .pdf docs from a backup rather than having to think about replacing equipment to set up Paperless again (in my instance aside from nightly Kopia snapshot backups I also export Paperless backups on device plus a secondary backup is automatically moved to a separate drive on my network & a third copy is encrypted & stored off site).