Ok unrelated, but I'm looking for a tool for making diagrams like that, anyone know what was used on this post? ty
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Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
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#12Ok unrelated, but I'm looking for a tool for making diagrams like that, anyone know what was used on this post? ty
draw.io probably . It's pretty good for a free tool. If you lost the xml I think it even work to import directly an exported picture (I guess they append the data into it too).
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#13Ok unrelated, but I'm looking for a tool for making diagrams like that, anyone know what was used on this post? ty
That particular diagram seems to have been generated by https://plantuml.com according to the image's metadata
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#14Ok unrelated, but I'm looking for a tool for making diagrams like that, anyone know what was used on this post? ty
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#15> I’d imagine you can set this up and run it easily from a NAS at home if you want, but I opt to keep my data safely protected in Switzerland, so I subscribe to about $100 monthly of server time to run my websites and all my integrations This part confused me a bit. Wouldn't running the NAS at home be more safe and secure? Or are they talking about backup safety?
I'm not quite sure what their point is there.
Everything they mention can also be accomplished on a home NAS or something with plenty of security. I don't think anything is really justified here besides simplicity? Which..this isn't that much simpler.
Which..$100/month is pretty expensive for what's basically an N100 with support.
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#16Baikal looks interesting. I used DAViCal[0] in the past to share calendars between a couple of Apple iOS devices. When it worked it worked well, but as iOS versions changed it seemed to get unreliable and I eventually gave up. When I do eventually revisit this I am going to look at DAViCal again, as well as Radicale[1], and now Baikal. [0] https://www.davical.org/ [1] https://radicale.org/v3.html
I've used Radicale for a long time. It works well. I recently moved to next cloud, only because my shared host is handling the deployment, and it comes with an integrated web UI, which is much less hassle to setup.
Nextcloud is great.
However, at least in my case selfhosted version is rather slow even with enough hardware and recommended tuning.
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#17I honestly prefer a pen and paper planner and just manually migrating my contacts over. Meanwhile, my personal gmail is 99.9% contacts I have no intention to ever speaking to again.
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#18This is very interesting, but also a lot of work. I've been off Google and the likes for maybe 5y now, and what I must say is that it's a bit of a struggle to find the setup that works for you. One thing for which I don't have a solution yet, and neither does that article seem to address, is how to send invites. My data is one next cloud now, so if I create an invite it sends it. But if I create a it from a client (e…
Baïkal tries to solve that by sending out the ics for you, it'll even accept responses in various formats (inviting to calendar events seem to be poorly standardized).
Last I played around with it it all worked, somewhat. It does require you to use baïkal as your caldav server though.
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#19I have Outlook (at work) and Google Calendar (at home) and synchronising them through HTTP is completely unreliable. They seem to mess the time zone all the time, sometimes they publish in UTC, sometimes not, with the consequence of having meeting always at the wrong time.
I really don't understand how these 2 major providers cannot fix what seems to me such a basic feature.
If using my own system would solve it, I'd do it immediately, but I am afraid that it would be just the same: meeting created on Outlook and imported with 2 hours difference.
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#20> I’d imagine you can set this up and run it easily from a NAS at home if you want, but I opt to keep my data safely protected in Switzerland, so I subscribe to about $100 monthly of server time to run my websites and all my integrations This part confused me a bit. Wouldn't running the NAS at home be more safe and secure? Or are they talking about backup safety?
It depends on where "home" is and what ISP is available.