Unreliable search, can’t handle one online and one local postbox side by side (both have to be turned to online postbox), it messes up my contacts every chance it gets, rules don’t work on the online postboxes,… And everything is so slow!

I am so happy with my Linux setup, but for this one costumer I have to use this shitty piece of software.

There is always emacs with org-roam.

Org-roam is kind of a wiki, you write your notes with all the formatting power of an org-file and you can link to other notes you have written.

Of course everything is searchable, with tags, without tags, however you want.

BUT: it takes time to get used to the shortcuts, and it takes a lot of time to configure everything how you like it.

The result is worth it.

Edit: I use Nextcloud to sync my notes accross my devices. On the smartphone there seems to be the App OrgNote available, but I haven’t checked it out, as I don’t use my smartphone that much.

Worked well for me. Although all the people I care about had already Signal, Element or Threema installed, so I am not a great pull factor.

And those everyday moms from child care or from wherever can reach me via SMS, for the two messages/year.

“Microsoft is an evil company, basically the enemy of free software, but here is why you should use their product…”

Booooo

Totally different for me:

• NC-calendar syncs two different calendars (work and private) accross all my devices.
• NC Photos with Memories organizes 2 TB of photos and has all the functions Immich has.
• NC Password Manager syncs my Passwords
• I share big files with my clients via NC and photo albums to friends and family.
• NC syncs and organizes different Input-folders for my paperless-ngx-server.
• I update NC with a small script, works every time

So it replaces at least 5 different Programs. And it’s 80 % private use, 20 % for my business. Not too big, not too clunky, just the right tool.

Nice try mom, but I am adulting now.

I installed the version from F-Droid-Store, Version 0.6-something. The main problem for me was, that you couldn’t download single songs, only complete albums - and I gave up on the App.

This post made me install the 0.9-beta-APK (directly from github), and it already fullfills all my wishes, you can download single songs now! And I love that you can filter for your favorites and download them all at once. Really looking forward to further process, it’s so promissing.

I guess you only use the standard Nextcloud photo app, not Memories. It is very comparable to the features you describe + if you have already set up your Nextcloud, there is no need to work with yet another software on your server.

Memories also uses automatic tagging, so searching for tent and beach would probably get you the same result. But I guess they are not using the best recognition software, I get a few missinterpretations here and there. (My marzipan potatoe with googly eyes is not an ‘Instrument’. But I guess it’s a challange for any software)

No special process, I installed Memories as admin on my Nextcloud, pointed it to my Picture-folder and my Smartphone-Uploadfolder, and made sure I had the other Apps as recommended here installed (e.g. ‘Photos’ to use albums and ‘Recognize’ for automatic face tagging)

The Memories-App on the Smartphone is also neat. And it is available on F-Droid.

My picture folder contains 1,4 TB of data, with many RAW-files and some Videos. Memories is handling that without a problem. I especially like the way it handles RAW-files, by grouping them together with the fitting JPEG.

I don’t know about how ressource heavy it is, but my server is really nothing special.

Features I like and use:

• automatic and manual people recognition
• sorting it on a map according to the geo data
• most used: Timeline, sorted by date. I barely organize my photos in folders now, because the timeline-sorting is what I want and enjoy.
• Albums to share fotos with family and friends. They don’t need a Nextcloud-Account to access them.

If you already use Nextcloud, try the Memorie-Extension. It has all the features of Immich. The tagging-feature for faces has been there for at least the year I am using it now.

I love the additional freedom too.

For me there weren’t even problems with nasty banking apps, all apps from three german banks are working normal.

For all people reading this: there are zero privacy-based limitations with GrapheneOS.

Isn’t the movie Hancock a bit in this direction?

Can’t get any more GNU/Linux than that, nice.

I started with 30, so not far off. My first step was to try to daily drive Linux. Best decision ever, working with a computer suddenly was fun and exciting again.

It is safer in the sense that, when you selfhost, you have to take care of your own backups. You have to make sure your data is still there, even if two hard drives fail, or your house catches fire and your server burns down. Hertzner is doing that for you.

But you are right of course, from a privacy standpoint it would be much better to have your data on your own server and only send encrypted backups to a remote server like Hertzner.

Here is how I (noobinoob) built my own Nextcloud-Server

• Hardware: I took the old PC from my aunt, no idea about the specs. Added 4 x 8 TB NAS HDD drives and removed the graphics card, the onboard graphic from the CPU was enough. No raid-controller, just connected the hard drives to the motherboard. In future I can add a PCI-Card with more SATA-ports.

• Software: I installed Linux Debian, put my 4 HDD drives in a btrfs-raid1 pool, encrypted them with LUCS, installed dropbear to ssh into my server when it is not started and unlocked yet, installed ddclient to update my domain with my home-IP and followed most (not all) of this guide to install nextcloud. Unfortunately, it is in german, but there are plenty of english intructions out there.

• internet-stuff: I bought a domain (10 Euro/year) and set up DynDNS. I opened the neccessary ports on my router/firewall.

I had to look up a lot of things and failed many many times, but now it works and I am very happy with it - no downtime in the last year. It took about 6-12 months to get there.

In conclusion: Your way (nextcloud on hetzner) is the much better way. You save time and money and your data is more secure.

But if you want to learn a lot of new stuff, building your own server is fun.

It would be easy to unlock the devices for different Software - like ugreen does.

And imagine all the possible backdoors in their software. No one can check, because it is closed source. And this on a device with your most senisble data.

Calling their acting ‘responsible’ is a huuuge strech.