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Open-source home cloud OS allows you to run Docker applications without coding

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Re: Open-source home cloud OS allows you to run Docker applications without coding

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Post by cfjgvjh »

pmontra wrote: post #10
cfjgvjh wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get what you're saying, but since Discord is often used for technical/community support, it probably is a low-friction way for people new to the homeserver stuff to get help and learn more. I know many of my normie friends would never use IRC, even if it was E2E encrypted and kept no logs.

My experience with Discord is that I hate to search for past content on it. I had to do it a couple of times because Google / Stackoverflow didn't return anything but burying the solution to a problem in a chat doesn't look good. IRC had the same problem. For some reason Slack is a bit better at it, maybe because I only use Slack for customers' projects so I know what to expect.

Discord search is a terrible piece of shit, I agree. The real value is the realtime support offered. It should never be a knowledge storage, that's a job for a wiki.

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Post by ori_b »

agentdrtran wrote: post #8
sneak wrote: post #3

Self-host your own stuff! Join us on centralized, logged-forever, not-end-to-end-encrypted Discord to chat about it!

a decentralized, unlogged, e2ee chat system nobody uses is worse.

Hence the suggestion to remedy the lack of use by using them.

Re: Open-source home cloud OS allows you to run Docker applications without coding

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Post by bellyfullofbac »

So... what exactly is it? Projects that have a lot of fluff but don't tell me what they offer irk me. Is it a NAS? Is it a Linux distro ("OS") that packages each app (whatever the hell apps for the "home scenario" mean) as a Docker container?

Well I did find the answers under "Key features", it is a NAS and home automation, except those 2 things are under construction, meanwhile it seems they're focused on pretty UI and having apps as Docker containers.

I'm becoming more of a curmudgeon, but masturbatory lines like "[...] team believes that through community-driven collaborative innovation and open communication with global developers, we can reshape the [...] experience like never before." and "Made with [heart emoji]" annoy me.

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Post by ranger_danger »

ssddanbrown wrote: post #6
sneak wrote: post #3

Self-host your own stuff! Join us on centralized, logged-forever, not-end-to-end-encrypted Discord to chat about it!

I do this for my open-source self-hosted project. The reality is that Discord provides a good experience, with good controls for a community, in a way that's friendly and easy to access for many. Additionally it saves me the hassle of hosting something. I don't see it that differently to using GitHub for hosting the code. In terms of privacy at least it's fairly clear to users, wanting to chat, that their data and co…

github is not privacy-friendly either.

Re: Open-source home cloud OS allows you to run Docker applications without coding

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Post by ronnier »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #11

This is cool, but I've seen a few projects in similar theme, and it has not been obvious to someone who is new to self-hosting what are the pros and cons of this, trueNas, NextCloud, unraid, openmedia vault

Unraid is closed source. That’s fine, it’s an amazing product and I’m happy to pay for it. But they are increasingly adding cloud bits to it. Like a profile required to sign into when activating the product. More cloud features are on the way. I’m fine paying subscription fee. But I don’t want my home server cloud connected.

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Post by zaptheimpaler »

sneak wrote: post #3

Self-host your own stuff! Join us on centralized, logged-forever, not-end-to-end-encrypted Discord to chat about it!

Does chatting on a discord somehow push all your local cloud photos and files to the internet? No? Yeah, its not a big deal. Discord is by far the best chat tool today.
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