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Cake day: June 11th, 2024

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  • Nextcloud it just too heavy I totally agree, and everything feels slow and sluggish.

    For just files I use Syncthing and couldn’t be happier, it just works in the background without a central server just syncs the files between phones, PCs and laptops by itself. I set it up like 5 years ago when I had enough of Nextcloud and to be honest most of the time I forget that I have it, but I use it every day to sync my password database for KeePassXC, my music, my private and work documents between all my devices.













  • Most of the time the VPS provider offers some backup solution. It’s not only about your configuration files which can easily be recreated, but about all the user data like pictures databases, etc. Which once lost can’t be recovered.

    Best practice is a 3-2-1 backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

    But you could back up your stuff on your laptop if you want, it’s not such a bad idea actually. For that you trigger the backup script from your laptop, you can do it automatically there too. This makes sure that the laptop is on while you’re doing the backup.

    The easiest way is a crown job and a bash file which runs a couple of rsync commands to get specific files and directories from the server via ssh.

    A more involved way would be a backup system like restic, which does a lot of things for you but is a bit more involved to set up.








  • I have to say it looks very interesting, I was looking for something like that years ago and couldn’t find it so I ended up paying for some app for subscription for two years, but it’s always uneasy when they push your very personal data to their own servers.

    I was very positively surprised that the first Korean package I scanned was already in the database, because the other app struggles with that a lot.

    But the UI is nor really working well on my Samsung S24 Ultra:

    https://imgur.com/a/POMrkji

    • Dark purple on gray is difficult to read
    • each headline seems to be cut off at the top
    • Cancel is cut off on the left
    • the g for grams is all over the place
    • Brand is not centered and not aligned with the kcal

    And this is only on this view, the other views have similar problems like that text in the menu is centered for some reason instead of aligned left with the icons. Padding is very different for each widget and text, etc.

    I still might end up using it anyway and hoping for a more consistent ui down the line anyway ^^