It’s been too long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGuPvrsG3E

If everyone you email use gmail

Using encrypted mail like Mailvelope helps. If they refuse to stop handing everything to GAFAM in any way, they’re really not worthy of private communication.

Degoogled not as in “Disable and remove Google components” or “Using Samsungs (or whatever) services instead of Google” but degoogled as in “Operating system built from the ground up without google components ever built in”.

The only one I have a hard time leaving is YT

Subscribe to YouTube channels through RSS, view content through a front-end or FLOSS apps. It goes a long way.

Finnish late dryer.

I have several 4 and 8 TB disks filled up with various stuff just waiting to be cleaned up. Why do you think I’m preaching about storage space management?

My dual 10’s are starting to fill up because I don’t move stuff off-site as I should. And then reclaiming space through disk analyser and freeing up reserved space is a life saver.

Doesn’t people use a disk usage scanner every once in a while to find out if there’s something hogging space?

Notable fatbergs

I didn’t expect that.

Last time I checked, Nextcloud Talk android app simply refuse to implement any sort of pull system. If one’s using a google-less phone one needs to set up a push system on top (I’ve never managed to get the NC push system to work properly). There’s even a separate “Nextcloud Notification checker” app on F-Droid to remedy the problem. It’s all a bit silly.

Same, it’s pretty nice.

to be sure that I (the server admin) cannot see the content of the files

temporarily upload files to my server and then serve them to users after

Heh.

I recently checked up on the status of the built in E2EE in NC when deciding what sort of encryption I wanted for data at rest on a self-hosted system. People are still complaining about data loss and horrible bugs. I’ve been burned before and stay well away from that half-baked implementation. I just use Cryptomator instead.

On the other hand NC supports AI implementation, there’s machine learning that sets EVERY SINGLE MAIL to important in the mail app and the ActivitiyPub based Nextcloud Social have almost worked for many years so that’s nice.

This looks cozy dank.

Don’t try to teach me how to use technology, I was building stone axes and made fire before you were born!

MP3’s are so old the patents have expired. OPUS is where it’s at it ones going for lossy music compression nowadays.

Harddrives are a bit unpractical when listening on phones.

And please don’t throw music onto storage devices, it’s better to transfer them.

Better?

Scamming is bad, think of the victims.

OPUS is such a delightful format I transcoded my FLACs just for fun.

100% of my self-hosted projects are run exclusively by my recurrent donations.

Good thing nobody’s asking about what I’ve donated to the software projects I’m using to self-host.

The NC app (and DAVx5 contacts and calendar sync for that matter) do provide a WebDAV mount point on android so I suppose I could access content directly. And someone mentioned there’s DAV support in some clients as well. Perhaps I’m just overly worried about losing access, with Syncthing the files are on my device no matter if my self-hosted home solution or internet goes down.

But the no-server cloud function of Syncthing is absolutely a killer feature. And very important as a simple and easy privacy solution for inexperienced users IMO. I was hoping for a better windows solution, not a deprecation of device support.

Speaking of servers, I also run a Syncthing server so I can sync files without having two user devices online at the same time. Syncthing natively support encryption at rest (files on disk) so it satisfies my absolute demand of never storing unencrypted personal files on a server. Even if the server is disk encrypted, in my own home and only accessibly through VPN…

Encrypted password database in encrypted storage on an encrypted storage only accessibly by encrypted connection via an encrypted connection… Maybe I’m overdoing it. Who am I kidding, I’d get a rottweiler to guard my home server if I could.

Fair point. Does it cache the database for when one’s of the grid?