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maiskanzler ,

There's prometheus node exporter which can collect such data from several hosts. You can hook it up with Grafana for neat dashboards and I'm almost sure it also integrates with Homeassistant.

maiskanzler ,

Do you see that hill? Wouldn't you like to... see what's behind it?

maiskanzler ,

All hail Firefox Sync!🙌

maiskanzler ,

Exactly. I've had 0 issues with it. Sadly they stopped development of their own password manager, so now I am using Bitwaren+Vaultwarden. The UI is better, but the app still feels cumbersome and slow, just like Mozilla's experiment. For some reason Bitwarden is also really inconsistent & slow in when it shows the Autofill Popup on my keyboard.

maiskanzler ,

What? I've never had the feeling that nextcloud assumes that. Are you using a special all-in-one docker image? Because I am using the regular one and pair it with db, redis etc. containers and am absolutely happy with it.

maiskanzler ,

Maybe get a reputable one, the other ones are sadly malware infected in way to many cases. It's a way for the manufacturer to make an extra buck from the sale.

maiskanzler ,

If you have an AVM Fritz!Box home router you can simply create a new profile that disallows internet access and set the devices you want to "isolate" to that profile. They will be able to access the local network and be accessed by the local network just fine, but they won't have any outgoing (or incoming) connectivity.

Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?

I haven't used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...

maiskanzler ,

I've always been on android, so take this with a grain of salt. In my opinion Samsung phones have come a very long way. They used to be slower and bloated in comparison to other brands, especially while the market was still moving fast. I used to have a Sony, a ZTE, a Motorola, an Umi and a Jiayu - I tried quite a few over the years.

The recent generation are all fast enough and performance wise last 4+ years before they get noticably slow and an upgrade becomes necessary. Software support on Samsung is now phenomenal. I had so many bugs and hitches on other vendors' phones and they were rarely fixed - the absolute opposite has been the experience on my Samsungs. Updates are frequent, smooth and stable.

I know this reads like an ad, but I was honestly positively suprised after I bought a Samsung tablet a few years back and have slowly switched over to Samsung devices. The same happened with all other members of my family. Samsung simply won.

I suppose the iPhone is very similar in that regard, both simply work and are great for everyday use. It's almost boring!

I do advice you to look at the upper end though, they simply have more performance reserves. If you are a display menace and battery destroyer though, you won't notice any significant slow down from the cheaper range in the 2 to 3 years you have before it becomes uneconomical to repair the device anyways.

maiskanzler ,

Out of curiosity, how did you solve that software wise? I was planning to do the same thing with my old MFP. Are you just using CUPS and SANE?

maiskanzler ,

I'll look into that, thank you!

maiskanzler ,

Btrfs snapshots/subvolumes can now also be deleted with rm. It's no longer necessary to use 'btrfs subvolume delete'

maiskanzler ,

Yep! (finally)

maiskanzler ,

If only modern kernels weren't a problem. I wish you could just install new OSs like on PC.

maiskanzler ,

It's probably also highly automated and the staff's job is just to watch for irregularities and alert the necessary teams.

maiskanzler ,

But Borg does not work with object storage, it needs a borg process on the receiving side.

maiskanzler ,

Depends a lot on what backup software you use. Blackbase B2 ist just an S3-like object storage service. It's the underlying software stack of many different things, one of those can be backup software. They do have their own backup solution though. But in that case B2 is the wrong product for you to look at.

maiskanzler ,

Yeah, has anyone ever actually tried restoring from then? I only remember one disgruntled redditor posting about it, but that's about it.

maiskanzler ,

I've used restic before and it worked great with OVH's object storage. Moved away from cloud backups because of the cost though.

How responsive is your Nextcloud?

My Nextcloud has always been sluggish — navigating and interacting isn't snappy/responsive, changing between apps is very slow, loading tasks is horrible, etc. I'm curious what the experience is like for other people. I'd also be curious to know how you have your Nextcloud set up (install method, server hardware, any other...

maiskanzler ,

That might be due to your ISP's routing and interconnects. They usually have good routes to big services and might lack good connections between home users in different countries or on different continents.

maiskanzler ,

I am very happy with mine and have only ever had one hiccup during updating that was due to my Dockerfile removing one dependency to many. I've run it bare metal (apache, mariadb) as well as containerized (derived custom image, traefik, mariadb). Both were okay in speed after applying all steps from the documentation.

Having the database on your fastest drive is definitely very important. Whenever I look at htop while making big copies or moves, it's always mariadb that's shuffling stuff around.

In my opinion there are 2 things that make nextcloud (appear) slow:

  1. Managing the ton of metadata in the db that is used by nextcloud to provide the enhanced functionality

  2. It is/was a webpage rendered mostly on the server.

The first issue is hard to tackle, because it is intrinsic and also has different optimums for different deployment scales. Optimizing databases is beyond my skillset and therefore I stick to the recommendations.

The second issue is slowly being worked around, because many applications on nextcloud now resemble SPAs, that are highly interactive and are rendered by your browser. That reduces page reloads and makes it feel more smooth.

All that said, I barely use the webinterface, because I rarely use the collaboration features. If I have to create a share I usually do that on the app because that's where I send the link to people. Most of my usecase is just syncing files, calendars and contacts.

maiskanzler ,

And you typically don't get SMART-Data from USB-adapters.

maiskanzler ,

From what I read online that can lead to instabilities and was therefore disabled on Linux.

maiskanzler ,

I did too, but shortly after decommissioning that server the drive became unresponsive. I really dodged a bullet without even realizing at the time. SMART data did not work and may have alerted me in that case.

Also, unrelated to SMART data, the server failed to do reboots because the USB-SATA adapter did not properly reset without a full power cycle (which did not happen with that mainboard's USB on reboots). It always git stuck searching for the drive. Restarting the server therefore meant shutting it down and calling someone to push the button for me - or use Wake-On-LAN which thankfully worked but was still a dodgy workaround.

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