Thanks for elaborating a bit. I opted against the password app since I wanted to diversify services. My nextcloud is a bit finnicky at times and wants to be updated before you can proceed with stuff. Having no access to my passwords in that moment would be harsh. So I opted for vaultwarden and it even has firefox integration, cli integration and a desktop app for linux (dunno about windows, honestly). I‘m not sure if it was a bad idea to put NC‘s database on spinning discs though. Maybe that was stupid.

As you can see, very much a WIP as well. I feel like we need some kind of place to accumulate iCloud -> NC expats. A lot of good could be done there.

I‘m on matrix as well but i‘m not proficient yet. My wife is still on whatsapp so I need to be patient. We have gotten rid of twitter and reddit which I count as a win.

What other projects do you have? Feel free to send me a dm with your matrix username if you want to keep in touch about this.

I‘m also migrating from iCloud (to NC among other things) and its been slow to say the least. Things I struggle with:

• setting up photo alternative with face recognition (recognition app is okayish but not as strong as I‘d like)
• getting whatsapp to somehow backup outside of iCloud
• getting my passwords out of iCloud (you need a mac for that) into vaultwarden
• NC being quite slow now that a couple apps and mid 5 digits of photos are in there, will try memcache soonish

For those who don’t know NC, these things are 1/10 of the stuff that NC is actually good at imo.

How is your experience so far?

Nextcloud (or docker for that matter) are rather complex.

Permission problems are every day life in linux, you always have to sudo or - if you change that - someone else can vaporize your server and steal all your data. Linux is infinitely more secure because it is a nightmare to use casually with a complex setup. Some windows script kiddie is gonna die inside your directories and never be found again.

Writing a script that you need to make executable first? Chowning files that are made by docker? Having to use a specific user inside docker (in case of nextcloud especially)?

All these things are incredibly frustrating but given the sheer complexity of nextcloud, it’s actually working rather good imo. So does linux.

I‘m not shitting on linux, docker or nc. I love them all but saying they’re not working just says they’re not plug and play yet. Other examples: most things snap are a mystery for me. Freakin permissions.

I sadly don’t know a lot about router setups but there is an !ubuntuserver@discuss.tchncs.de community you could crosspost to if you want to. :) good luck.

I actually followed your advice yesterday (everything is ok again now) and streamed from my phone. Thanks :)

Thanks for letting me know! I’ll check it out.

The used CD option is actually very awesome. Thanks for letting me know. I do have a plex server which I use for Movies and Shows (which are actually all ripped blu rays in the basement) :)

Sounds awesome. I have like 6 small speakers and a tv bar. Not ready to drop them rn since I too want to be able to listen to music taking a shower while my wife listens to something else in the living room. I’m pretty sure people will have figured this out somehow. Time to find some audiophile selfhosted community. :) Besides that, I tend to ask myself why does a service have no viable/selfhosted competition. Most times it is anticompetitive behavior afaik but we’re unable to see it because they’re discreet.

I have barely anything to add to that. Awesome thoughts. Sonos has since fallen out of grace with me as well (same as apple) but I own both brands still since I don’t throw things away if I can help it and exchanging them rn would only hurt me. So I try to make do until the very last moment and then I will switch. I’m stubborn like that.

Speaking of old music: I’m a violinist and mostly listen to bach (mostly performed by hilary hahn). I have visited two of her concerts and plan on buying her album(s) on vinyl once I get wifi on my vinyl player. Other than that its mostly CCR. So old music is my favorite as well.

Thank you very much for elaborating. I’ll see to it that I at least have a fall back library soon. :)

Thanks for answering. I do the same with my blu rays and dvds but I haven’t had local music for years so I will have to look at that.

My problem also is that not apple music is down but sonos, which is not a subscription service but physical hardware that I have bought. The old „kill switch“ problem so to speak.

I‘ll look into finding a solution that makes me able to go around online obligation.

Have a good day. :)

Okay! Thanks for explaining! Thats very helpful.

Yes I am. I now chose to just change it in the config, restarted telegraf and it works now. Thanks :)

Thanks for answering so fast! :)

I’m not deep enough to know if telegraf can do this. It has “plugins” that work okayish. Not a lot to configure. I suppose I could start going into the nitty gritty but I would abolutely love to avoid it. I have like 10+ services running on my server and I can’t go this deep without an IT team and with a job. :)

In this special case, it is uptime I’m after and influxdb throws a table at me that looks like this:

then I use this to get the data into grafana:

from(bucket: "telegraf")
  |> range(start: v.timeRangeStart, stop: v.timeRangeStop)
  |> filter(fn: (r) => r["_measurement"] == "system")
  |> filter(fn: (r) => r["_field"] == "uptime_format")
  |> aggregateWindow(every: v.windowPeriod, fn: last, createEmpty: false)
  |> yield(name: "last")

And what turns up is this:

Now, having worked with SQL before, there is a way to just show the “2 days, 18:02” bit instead of two values and without manually selecting the host each time in SQL, I just don’t know how to do it in flux.

I hope this makes sense. Have a good one. :)

Another nc user here. I have the recognition app and my photos are tagged. If I need to find them I search for the specific tag. It’s quite neat.

Makes total sense. Good luck figuring it out. :)

In this case I‘m out of ideas. :) but thanks for elaborating. I appreciate it.

Wow! Thanks for elaborating! I‘ll look into this! Looks like a ton of useful advice.

Honestly, I would just take this as an indicator of something fishy going on. Either google crawled your ip and found things it didn’t like or stuff came out of it to google. Either a scripted action (which looks malicious from the outside) or advertising emails. Your logs should at least tell you if there have been any suspicious logins on any of the exposed services.

Might be way off here but have you checked if you actually got hacked and they just didn’t destroy anything?

Can absolutely relate. Just seeing nsfw if you‘re not anticipating it is very weird.