Guenther_Amanita

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Guenther_Amanita ,

I don't know how you define "organic".
Does that mean "free of certain pesticides", or "natural fertilizer only", or something else to you?

Maybe hydroponics could be for you. It's extremely well scalable, plants grow better than in soil, you don't need to worry that much about pest control, less wasteful than soil, efficient, and much more.
But, you'll need inorganic (mineralic) fertilizer. Depending on your definition and standards you want to follow, this could be a problem.

Guenther_Amanita ,

Wouldn't that be way too salty (especially Sodium) and a risk for hepatitis and such?

Guenther_Amanita ,

Thank you thousand times for sharing!
I somehow already heard about the technique some time before, but didn't have it in my mind anymore. It triggered a new project idea for me!

I will try to make a few myself and gift it to my parents. They irrigate like crazy in the summer, and maybe that helps them save some water.
I can update you with the results if you want :)

Guenther_Amanita ,

If you have a spare laptop/ PC, I insist you to try Nextcloud.

It's super easy to install, you actually just download the Docker all-in-one container and it runs in less than 10 minutes. You don't have much to loose.
I'm relatively happy with it.

I mean, to be fair, NC isn't perfect. It sometimes feels a bit wonky and tries to do everything, while exceeding at nothing.
But it's damn comfortable to set up and maintain.

It doesn't perfectly cover your use case, but everything else (individual services, including web server, database, etc.) is less centralised and more complicated to set up.
Since NC AIO is inside a container, all data are too. It's a relatively straightforward file system afaik.
Backup also is included, but you have to do it manually by default and it stops the services while doing it.

For offloading large files, you might look into 3rd party tools. NC is basically a remote drive you can connect to with most programs that support it.

Guenther_Amanita ,

I never had any (major) problems with Nextcloud yet.

I just have following "conflicts" with it:

  • It doesn't follow the "Do one thing, and do it right"-philosophy. It tries to do everything at once. File upload/ sharing, media management (NC Photos), RSS, mail, calendar, contacts, and much, much more.
    I mean, it's damn convenient and works pretty fine, but nothing is great.
    For example, Immich/ Photoprism is way better than NC for photo management.
  • There's a lot of abandonware, or buggy/ unmaintained apps. For example, my "News"-feed looks completely broken for months now.
  • The performance isn't good. I mean, the "server" (an old thin client) isn't fast at all, but the loading times and responsiveness is just awful. The file upload also takes ages, even from the same network.
  • It feels bloated. I think, if I would be more into selfhosting and had more time, I would search for alternatives and split all the NC features I use into their own services, e.g. one for file upload, one for document management, one for managing my photos, an own RSS client, and more.

But, as I said, the ease of use and amount of features is still great. I don't want to spend three weekends just troubleshooting my server and searching for/ installing dozens of individial services. And for that, it's good enough.

Guenther_Amanita ,

Because it's outdated. They are a lot of work and can cause package conflicts or errors, making the whole system less reliable.

If you need something, that's not in your package manager, then use Distrobox and create an Arch container, and use the AUR for example.
You can export the program after installing, and it integrates better into your system.

By doing that, the devs have to do the work only once and you will have less problems.

Guenther_Amanita OP ,

Hahaha :D
Also ich muss tatsächlich sagen, holy shit, sind die alternativen Web-Interfaces (Photon und Alexandrite) smooooth. Gabs auf Feddit zum Beispiel nicht. Kann ich sehr empfehlen.
Jetzt wird noch bisschen getestet, und dann wird final umgestellt. Schade, dass es so weit kommen musste...

Guenther_Amanita OP ,

Ja same, und wenn ich auf Solarpunk aus was von Feddit abonnieren will heißt es nur "Ausstehend", und dann wird kein einziges Sub von Feddit.de mehr angezeigt.

Wäre an sich überhaupt kein Ding. Ich hab dafür Verständnis.
Aber, wie du schon sagtest, Feddit liegt seit Monaten im Sterben, und ich sehe dabei auch keine Aussicht auf Besserung, weil die Admins uns auch absolut in Unwissenheit verweilen lassen. Wenns nur heißen würde "Jo, Seite läuft wieder, aber die Fotos sind weg, müsst ihr neu hochladen", kein Ding. Aber so? Ne, das weckt keinen professionellen und zuverlässigen Eindruck.

Es tut mir echt weh. Ich hab hier so viel aufgebaut und Content generiert. Ich will nicht gehen. Aber das ist ein sinkendes Schiff...

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