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Re: Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage

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Post by dv35z »

Theodores wrote: post #10

Related: my latest discovery is Thunderbolt networking. I have my main machine with everything on and my personal machine I use for testing and web browsing. They both have access to the same files at warp speed. If I then disconnect I can use wifi or I can use the internet. The lack of latency enables keyboard/mouse sharing across my two machines to work seamlessly. Finding files is at native speeds. The two machine…

Wow, never knew about Thunderbolt networking, thanks! NextCloud - been hearing a lot about this. What’s the setup/upkeep/maintenance like? Where are you hosting it? That VPN idea - would love to keep things accessible by IP whitelist, or just some way that the server is not being scanned for vulnerabilities on the regular…

Re: Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage

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Post by Theodores »

dv35z wrote: post #21
Theodores wrote: post #10

Related: my latest discovery is Thunderbolt networking. I have my main machine with everything on and my personal machine I use for testing and web browsing. They both have access to the same files at warp speed. If I then disconnect I can use wifi or I can use the internet. The lack of latency enables keyboard/mouse sharing across my two machines to work seamlessly. Finding files is at native speeds. The two machine…

Wow, never knew about Thunderbolt networking, thanks! NextCloud - been hearing a lot about this. What’s the setup/upkeep/maintenance like? Where are you hosting it? That VPN idea - would love to keep things accessible by IP whitelist, or just some way that the server is not being scanned for vulnerabilities on the regular…

The CDN with what it does it good to learn. However, you have your home router and you just want 22/80/443 port forwarded at a minimum, 80 is just for certbot.

That is the basis of the security. I should also say I like configuring Grafana and other system monitoring tools.

This all sits behind the home router so no hosting fees. Sure the IP address can get reissued and changed but I am okay running that risk.

Thunderbolt 4 cables are not USB C cables, they cost more but they are cheap compared to other networking solutions for point to point.

Re: Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage

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Post by KennyBlanken »

n3storm wrote: post #3

Nextcloud. WebDAV (a standard) or offline sync. If you don't mess with document and spreadsheet editors Nextcloud can remain lo-fi

The nice thing about Nextcloud is that nearly everything is a module and can be disabled, stripping it down considerably to be not much more than a private file sync server.

Re: Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage

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Post by hGfbjHzuHv »

dv35z wrote: post #17
n3storm wrote: post #3

Nextcloud. WebDAV (a standard) or offline sync. If you don't mess with document and spreadsheet editors Nextcloud can remain lo-fi

Where/how do you host NextCloud? I was looking into it the other night, but felt some apprehension of “yet another thing to manage”

Hetzner has hosted NextCloud, starting at ~5€/month for 1TB. Just works.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

Re: Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage

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Post by tomjen3 »

The system you described sounds nice, until I either: need to share one file without sharing the tree above it, or somebody fixes a spelling issue anywhere in the tree above any shared file.

Shareing a file can be as simple as sharing a request to HR for something.

Re: Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage

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Post by u602214 »

kkfx wrote: post #14

Personally, and I can't name a tool for you, I consider that: - files&folder taxonomies are limited. Sometimes a file should be in more than one place, there are links/symlinks but no "backlinks" so it's easy top break things and filenames are not much good for search. Essentially a path in a file&folder classic taxonomy is a kind of limited and limited query to reach some content; - notes are another interesting thi…

What a coincidence! Configuring similar setup has been my main project for the last several weeks. I got tired of having separate pinboard/google keep/calibre/zotero/nvalt collections of documents and now moving to emacs and org-mode with similar usage of org-attach. Notes dir under syncthing. Org-attach tree is managed with git-annex (copies to external hdds & S3-like cloud storage). For search I'm using notdeft with xapian backend right now.
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