Yes. And No.

I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

That was it.

Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…

Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)

Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that’s easier.

Then run it all through Picard and that’ll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.

Anything that Picard doesn’t know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.

Done.

We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.

It’s in a VPN tunnel of course.

But of course, we also don’t use Google, AWS, etc as they’re not secure enough for us and we have our own SOCs

You’ve reminded me of a slightly off-topic point…

I tried to put Linux on an old laptop for a friend so their kids could use it… it had some weird (Realtek?) chip that was a combination of things (ie video and networking?) and Linux just couldn’t drive it, so I had to give up.

That’s the only Linux failure I’ve had and it was also the one where I told them it would definitely work…

If you’re looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.

From an app point, for Android I’m using Fossify Calendar (which I think you’re using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)

From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)

(Yes, I also have a VPN for other things… just focusing here for the calendar / todo)

Admittedly I’ve just scanned your list, but from a repair shop POV, surely the legal licensing would be of interest?

Ie, someone brings in an old device thst won’t run Win7 let alone 11 - but you can’t repair / upgrade without being very careful with the COA license

Linux: no issues.

My journey⋮ Nextcloud —> syncthing + radicale

Much simpler, easier to maintain, less resources needed

Got a link for that? Searching for “garage backup storage” doesn’t really get me anywhere…

Nice. I’ll go that way when I next brave the dust and cobwebs where the server’s currently located

Aha! I was considering moving from proxmox to incus too, but incus seemed quite new and not much documentation (at the time)

How do you find it now?

Users of Chromium-based browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi are also advised to apply the fixes as and when they become available.

Happy for them to be developing an app (which already appears to exist), but at ~20‰ with 16 days left… wouldn’t it be “better” to collaborate with existing apps like Pipepipe / Newpipe and direct those funds into the platform instead?

Yeah, but it’s hard work to make it look easy.

I made a video for work once, it was basically a recorded Teams call, but, good god, I was awful 🤭

Hadn’t thought about all the locale, etc… good point, thanks

Yeah… notes… they started about 50% of the way through building the system.

Now, my notes are great, but some of these devices are ~10 years old.

But, yep, I totally agree, notes are a damn good thing to have.

Not thought about bash history though, interesting point, but I think that only goes back a short duration?

Yeah, at least others are confirming what I had assumed, rather than everyone pointing me to a blindingly obvious tool that did it all for me!

Good point, not thought of that - thanks

Lucky you.

Yep, I’d seen some other videos of his, he does seem genuinely interested in passing on his knowledge

Ok, good point on not writing from scratch - which is what I had been doing for the first few… whixh is rewarding to learn how it works, but it is slow.

Thanks

Hmm, that’s not a bad shout actually…

I can fire up VMs to replicate the real system and maybe (depending on space) keep them as a testbed for future mods.

Thanks, good idea.