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I love the fact that (until now at least) they have everything as separate services, so “stock” opencloud only does file synching tasks. Works better for me than Nextcloud the last few years.

Are you limited by compatibility on the side of the controller/appliance?

I currently run a Dell Wyse 5something, that one’s low power but passively cooled. Total silence for Home assistant and related services.

I had good results with SFF (Small Form Factor) machines, mostly Dell Optiplexes. More space inside while manageably small. Usually a lot of them around as former leasing machines.

Same here, separate disk mounted at /docker

Seconded. Works really well for me.

They all will do that, some more, some less. It’s to stop them from sticking in position.

Oh fantastic… That’s another 5 services to test drive.

Yeah. Unfortunately a known problem, even if the cause isn’t always clear.

Ah, well. I only remembered something about a week.

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1?

LE is beta-testing a 7-day validity, IIRC.

Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

No, those are expected or even required to be automated.

whereas the other options basically force you to forever use their database-based system and files are terribly organized, so you are forced to use their interface.

Immich has a “storage templates” section which allows you to choose a folder structure that it will use to store the files in.

Or go the other way and include your folders as external libraries.

Yeah, that’s not going to work. You’ll have to at least rank your requirements. Is size more important, or is it the number of RAM slots? Also, what is “enough CPU/Ram”?

Also also, “unlimited” will only get you unrealistic things like the 10k+ PCI-E SSDs.

Spamming that again?

It grew from a nice Owncloud fork into a do-it-all groupware solution by adding on more and more things without really improving the basis. Each version the performance gets a little worse, syncing gets stuck more often, etc.

Opencloud looks or at least looked good as it started out as an Owncloud Infinite Scale fork, but of course they’re adding on more and more groupware stuff without improving the core first. Maybe we’re doomed to witness the same cycle with each solution, who knows.

Currently working on moving the more family-relevant services to OIDC-based login via Pocket ID passkeys so I can put my parents on them.

Also, still on the lookout for a good Nextcloud replacement. Even Opencloud displays the first signs of feature creep.

Nothing besides a mirror makes sense with only 2 storage bays. The overhead would only increase for absolutely no gain.

Your only choice would be a mirror, as you only have two bays. RAIDZ2 needs at least 4 drives to be useful.

Have you checked that you can actually run a different OS on the UGREEN NAS?

Considering the services you want to run on the machine you’ll want all the RAM you can get.

Also, the CPU is already weak by today’s standard, especially with “heavier” workloads like Immich machine learning.

XMPP? Matrix?

That’s cute, but very much a bubble view. Usually not worth the effort unless the devs themselves are users.

Why do I need a messaging system in the first place?

You might not need one, but the majority of users want and/or need one for user management, password reset, notifications etc.

And it is being developed for the majority of users.

Do you know of any other near-universal messaging system to use instead?

Edit: also, the downsides you mentioned depend really hard on the email service you choose to use, or choose to host yourself.