Same here, so unless something is fully open source, self hostable and preferably federating, I’m not picking it up.

These tips are all solid, and reflect my setup. Database (MariaDB) and PHP files on the SSD, data storage on spinny bois. Don’t underestimate the importance of a recent enough version of PHP, OpCache, enabled, and so on.

There’s a whole chapter on performance tuning in the manual, and the “Security & setup warnings” part of the administration settings should point out some configuration issues, when it finds them.

My setup might actually take a (smallish) performance hit because I use btrfs for all my filesystems. Just don’t get roped into the whole “wsl on Windows” thing, that’s just not going to work out, it’s a kludge that MS offers to not bleed users to Linux too much, but it’s certainly not meant for server workloads.

The hardware should not be the bottleneck at all, the 1265 in OPs machine should not be significantly slower than the 1280 in mine.

Eh, my gen8 is chugging happily along with Nextcloud, Synapse, Jellyfin and friends, docker-mailserver, a GoToSocial instance, Home Assistant in a VM, and so on. I don’t know what else is running on your server (and, admittedly, I’ve added some RAM and stuck in a somewhat beefier Xeon CPU), but it should have no problems running a web app like Nextcloud, especially if you stay away from the more intensive stuff like office apps.

That aside, I’ve gone through a fair amount of note taking apps, and so far I like Joplin best, too bad it doesn’t seem to work out for you. Not sure when you last checked out the Android app, but I do know there’s been some changes in the editor it uses recently-ish, it might be worth it to check again.

I’ve used Rockstor in the past, I liked it mostly (but in the end went with a self-configured OpenSUSE system).

Apart from that, I hear good things about OMV and TrueNAS

Enjoy that free time you regained? 😉

Funny, that, didn’t work for me on ff/Android.

Edit: on reload, it suddenly did. 🤷‍♂️

I’m currently giving Karousel a go, seems like a decent step between a full on tiling wm (which isn’t for me, really) and a stacking one.

I’ve been rocking mine for close to two years now, and it just keeps getting better.

Not sure about the water-proof-ness, but actually a pinetime might tick most of those boxes. I’m happy with mine.

NAT is not a security feature.

Maybe not so much “can afford”, but “are willing to”.

For all we know OP was living in abject poverty while taking care of their mum, but still making that choice. In that scenario, they couldn’t afford, but still did.

See also: Google with Gmail.

Good luck running your own mail server these days, and getting your messages actually delivered to Gmail and Outlook/O365 mailboxes. It’s possible, but a hassle, and the rug can get pulled at any moment.

I’ve broken my winning streak, and found my way back into Eve Online again. This time I’m in Faction Warfare, which actually seems like fun, and not an eternal blobfest all over the place.

they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can’t be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.

I must be having a pre-morning-coffee dumb, but how would this extrapolation realistically work, in your opinion? Those install numbers aren’t exactly… exact, from what I understand.

Nobody fucks with Nintendo, or The Mouse.