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My question is, if you’re using ublock origin you must have some desire for privacy — so why in the world do you actively want to allow Youtube to track your viewing habits? SMDH.

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

I understand the ease from an admin POV, but besides locking users into a third party, corporate suite, everything UX about Office365 sucks balls.

I’ve been eyeing Pico, but it doesn’t seem to be super well maintained? Do you know if it’s still active?

Perhaps your phone has extra aggressive battery saving settings that kill the background process? The official Syncthing has a setting to run as a persistent service, which always helped me.

Otherwise see if you can make system exceptions for the app to run in the background, and allow it to auto-sync. It’s been a while since I used the forked app, buy it did help me out on a device where the official didn’t work for me.

Hope this helps.

who is downvoting me and why?

You’re probably making them feel stupid, people downvote for no good reason. It’s a them problem, not a you one; everybody should check AlternativeTo before asking for recommendations.

Yeah, phone to laptop, and I recently synced all backups and files from an old phone to a new one, too. Once you have the computer setup, you can basically connect phones by reading its QR code.

If the official Syncthing Android app is giving you a hard time, maybe try Syncthing-fork? IIRC that’s only the daemon and web GUI wrapped as an app. But I’ve used the main app only for the past few years.

I’d really recommend giving Syncthing a second chance, twist a few knobs in the settings until it works. I’ve used it for years with barely a hitch.

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

AFAIK when you clone a drive it will create a partition the same size as the original disk. It doesn’t just copy your files, it’s a full disk partition clone.

As @breakingcups@lemmy.world said, you’ll have to extend the partition to the full drive size in Partition manager (or gparted on a Linux machine).

Recommending Spyglass over, say, SearxNG? Seems a bit over-reliant on Google services for my taste, but sure.

OTOH, may not fit all your criteria:

• SimpleX
• Databag
• Zulip