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  • Do you think webdav somehow dumps you database? No it’s just a protocol to save your files on your webserver. It’s just a middelman.

    recommended to somebody an option that is the exact opposite of what you know to be true.

    Yeah it’s my recommendation from my personal experience. Is that wrong? I use it nearly everyday without any data corruption. Is my personal experience not valide?

    The point is, syncthing is rock solid, never had any issue being it with my zotero database or syncing files between my devices. If you’re a Nextcloud advocate or are against my personal opinion so be it :).

    Agree that we disagree !



  • Nextcloud and syncthing a 2 different things. While synching keeps your files synchronized between your devices, nextcloud is a cloud platforme which gives you access to your files on your server. The difference is actually very important even though a lot would argue that they are the same.

    It really depends what type of technology you want/need. I would recommended syncthing for it’s simplicity and robustness. It only does one thing but it does it very well !!

    To give you an example, I have a syncthing sever which is a middleman for my Zotero database. Laptop <-> Server (syncthing) <-> desktop. It’s very important to keep it in sync for the integrity of the zotero database !

    This kind of workflow wouldn’t work with nextcloud or rather will most of the time corrupt my database.

    Nextcloud works as a simple cloud platforme wich is also great (with it’s up and downs) but works only as a cloud platforme to keep your files on your server.



  • Thank you very much for your throughout and explanatory response !!! <3 I also read all the comments and I know what I will be doing !

    While I did like the well build defaults, I didn’t liked how they added their logo on boot up, even if it has nothing to do with logoFAIL exploit, It felt wrong (or does every distro does that?). Also the fact they added their own bookmarks in my freshly installed Firefox left me a bit skeptical… :/

    There’s probably nothing to be alarmed off but That doesn’t feel right… If they do that, what else could they add hidden in the distro normal people can’t see ?

    If I may ask, do you have any good distro you would recommend? Something as bare bone as possible, as good as debian but a bit more up to date. I do not fear some tinkering with a new distro but Arch is a bit to much of a hassle right now… That’s why I chose Manjaro.

    My second pick was EndeavourOS as daily drive, but the community is small compared to manjaro and it’s relatively new in the game. Any thoughts?

    Thank you !!




  • N0x0n@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldShould I use a rolling distro?
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    One downside of debian testing is you don’t get security patches when the package is freezed under testing.

    Rather use sid, but comes with it’s own share of troubles !

    Edit: I’m currently on Manjaro, wich is somehow a “semi-rolling” release based on arch. It takes a few weeks before it hits the stable branch. But while I love it as daily drive, don’t know if I would recommend it as server.

    Servers need to be stable, that’s why I use debian stable on my server.

    Maybe give fedora server a try? Which is more uptodate than debian and maybe more stable as a server OS than a rolling release !






  • Hey :)

    Wait, I thought the “downside” of this app was that it used your VPN connection.

    It does, but if you have a VPN that let’s you send your traffic through wireguard (like protonVPN, don’t know about others :/) it will send all your traffic through that tunnel.

    Also, there was a recent update which uses your wireguard’s DNS instead of rethink’s hardcoded internal DNS. That was the awaited updated I needed to fully switch to rethinkDNS.

    There are still some quirks in the interface and a few strange behavior with wireguard when waking the phone up, but nothing that causes leaks in my experience, because if my wireguard tunnel isn’t working rethink isn’t able to make any requests !

    Hope it helps :).



  • Hey thanks for the clarification :) ! I’m not a photographer nor educated enough in specific science domain.

    I only pointed out what technique photographers use to make them appear so bright and colorful on pictures.

    They really are as colorful as they appear in photos but human night vision is primarily black and white.

    Does that even make sense? I mean, we are what we are, and we see what we see. There is noway that we could certainly know how they actually look like.

    If a reptile looks at an Aurora Borealis, It would totally see it differently, and it’s perspective would differ from ours.

    With a camera you can change alot of attributes to make it appear b/w, sepia, more light, rgb, cmjn, infrared, flash… But that doesn’t make it how they actually appear, I mean who is in charge to give the correct mixture of how much light, b/w, cmjn, rgb, infrared… to see the “real” manifestation ?

    Personally, I think this is more a philosophical/metaphysic ¿? question, but I’m no expert in any of those subjects. I’m just relying on my personal experience and my feelings ^^.

    Feel free to argument !