Not in costco, but it happened to me with lidl in europe.

Went with my wife and kids to get icecream a hot summer day, and we came back with a swimming pool, one of those you have to kinda build. Not big enough to swim but big enough for a bunch of people without being crowded and sit covered by water entirely.

Long story short, we cannot have such pool on our shitty uneven ground in the yard. At least it we bought it with 50% discount so whatever.

My favorite launcher Dragon Launcher, it’s as fun as a spinner and very minimal until you interact with it.

And a couple of games I’ve been hooked with lately: Vector pinball And Breakout 71

Thanks for the extra details! I mean, it does make sense the way you are guiding the use case for the project. It’s just not my use case :)

In any case kudos for the job you’ve done!

Hey, pussies are great, don’t compare them to that idiot.

Very promising! If I understand correctly though, I can’t even create a note in offline mode to sync later? That would be a bit of a deal breaker for me personally. I couldn’t see much details on e2ee either, but maybe I missed that. Anyway, really well done!

This is surprising… And completely unmanageable from a user’s point of view. In order to find what licenses it has I need to browse folder by folder in the code, instead of, you know, having a list of licenses and where they apply.

On a quick look I saw only two places with a special license, one is the example indicated by the developer of the server package which is an odd license that gives me pretty bad vibes for my lack of legal knowledge but probably is ok? It might even be reasonable, but what is the server package? Is that the server I self host? Or the server for paid Joplin? Then I found some other code that was an MIT license… But how deep do I need to go searching in the folder structure to find all licenses? This is irritating. I guess I gotta consider changing to something else then if only to be able to know what license I am using.

Also… What is the legal implications of using a software than upon any update might suddenly add a weird random license? Would that mean I am expected to keep checking all foldernevery time they change something?

Hmm so how does the workflow look like for you? Is the calibre web tied up to the DB of that calibre VNC? Do you manually add the books to calibre over the VNC? Then is calibre web allowed to make changes to the DB or does it have read only access? as far as I understand calibre is not recommended to have multiple sources of changes to the DB as it can end up corrupted or something? (At least it can’t resolve conflicts I think)

As a solution it seems like it could work, but it feels like over complicated to get around the limitations of calibre.

I’ve been using calibre since around 2009 and it is an incredible piece of software. For handling ebooks, specially for eBook readers and file formats, it has no equal. Unfortunately it is built around the idea of installing it into one computer and connecting your eBook to it. Which makes it a bit clunky in my opinion nowadays.

Maybe calibre web fixes that, I need to check it one day. For actual books I think it falls between that and booklore.

All the other options seem to be more indicated to comics and manga, which is another aspect I’ve been noticing calibre does not do such a great job. I think I’ll have to keep two different ones, one for reading from a tablet comics and such and another for ebooks to send to the reader.

No apologies needed, I’m not even OP :) it was just a long shot :D

Are you in Europe by any chance? :)

I haven’t tried calibre-web, but has been on my long todo list for a while. If I’m not mistaken, it is not a better UI, it is a better UI for a web server, calibre’s web server is… Well, barebones. So it is meant to replace it when you want to access the library mostly remotely. That’s what I have understood, maybe I’m wrong so take it with a pinch of salt. The other comment had a link to an alternative open source free software library manager, might be worth checking it.

Not the OP you asked, but I back his comment fully. At this point, I don’t even know how long it has been that I have used calibre. I started when I bought a Chinese e-reader back in the day when it was that or the first kindle that had a full keyboard.

At this point, after so long, for me ebooks go hand in hand with calibre. Why choose calibre instead of that alternative? Habits probably, the fact that calibre has filled that role since I ever used a screen to read. I don’t particularly think there’s any other reason. Back in the day when the formats of ebooks were all over the place, the conversion abilities of calibre were priceless. Now everything seems to be epub or cbz for comics. The transfer to the reader was also a breeze with calibre, now with WiFi in every device it doesn’t feel so relevant. Not to mean calibre doesn’t help, it has moved with the times allowing remote direct connection with the readers and so on.

I use Calibre because I already know it, it is open source, and it has proven to work extremely well over all these years. It can be trusted.

But now with all that said, why I wouldn’t use calibre. Calibre comes with its own web server but sincerely it is sooo limited i just can’t stand it. I know there’s calibre-web but I haven’t gotten around to set it up. Plus it doesn’t get along well with calibre itself running if I have understood correctly. It seems where calibre is lacking is in the editing of a library from multiple sources. So its main use seems to be meant on one computer and… That’s it. Now that I am setting some self hosted services, I wanted something similar for calibre. Many times I want to edit the library from my phone when I want to add something I found or whatever. But I appreciate having the full app on my computer to do big complex operations on my libraries. But I’ve never loomed for an alternative, why would I, calibre is incredible… Well, maybe I should. Thanks for that link! It looks promising!

Awesome comment!

About the dashboards, I have been using CasaOS for a while now, it is not a OS, but it decently handles containers and allows you to install a bunch of services in a very user friendly way. Nowadays (as I found out a few days ago) the project seems to be moving in the direction of a fully purposed OS with NAS capabilities plus the containers stuff. Unfortunately the project (under the name ZimaOS) has gone into proprietary software and (for now) a one payment level to unlock full options with a free limited version.

I don’t think I can recommend anymore to go with casaOS due to that (although for now casaOS remains free OSS kinda separate). I have been also looking for alternatives to set up a NAS and so far I am heavily leaning on OMV as it is a full OS with the idea of handling a NAS with all ready, plus it is based in Debian which is a plus for me too. Alternatively I am looking into YunoHost also, but I think it is not exactly what I want, although it looks promising.

Edit: forgot to mention FreedomBox as another option that can work as a NAS OS of sorts that helps with self hosting services too.

Thanks for the feedback! I’ll definitely check it up as I try to build a NAS to deal with the extra storage needs.

I have been using casaos and sincerely it is great as a simple solution to avoid some hassles. On the other hand if you are already handling those things yourself and are fine with it, it might have less value.

I am considering some changes and now I am finding out that maybe having a backup of the configuration to set it up again later is not something I can get in casaos.

Is ZimaOS even worth considering if is not Open Source?

For me personally this is a key aspect. I would avoid any proprietary solution, or you will be left in a position where you have no control of your data. I definitely won’t be checking zimaOS.

Instead I want to check and maybe try yunohost or freedombox.

I just want to bring to attention something I was just finding out thanks to this post.

I started self hosting some stuff by installing raw in arch and well… It was a pain, but worth it. Then later I found out about CasaOS, which is recommended by OP, and I agree, it was great to have it to install some more services and a lot easier. But just like OP I just found out about ZimaOS, which is announced even in casaOS project as a better system and an upgrade. So I went to check and the whole project is changing from open source in casaOs to proprietary in ZimaOs. Not content with that, in the latest release of ZimaOs they have added a one time payment to eliminate some limitations of the free version. It is still affordable and a “lifetime” license but if they have added a payment for full access once they might do it again, despite their current promises that they won’t ever make a subscription style payment.

So, careful with that project, I would recommend to avoid any solution that is proprietary or otherwise it won’t be yours in the first place. I had in mind to change from CasaOs in Debian to OpenMediaVault to handle a DAS and install casaOS on top of that. But now I have to reconsider, so far I have already seen a few worth recommendations in this post that seem nice: FreedomBox and YunoHost to mention a couple that are FOSS.

Oh wow… I’m going to set this up right away, I’ve always loved this feature on google maps, but as I’ve been removing google from my life I was afraid of losing this but I definitely don’t want to give any more of my data. This is perfect! Thank you so much!

Edit: torilla tavataan i guess :)

Well hello all again. I come with an update, after a few days of looking around and searching for options after all your valuable feedback and input.

For all those saying “backups” and “3-2-1”, yes, very important indeed and has given me extra to think about, but it is also not really what I was looking for. That doesn’t mean your input was bad, wrong or unused, it made me think deeper about that topic too and plan towards it, but it was not answering my original question, needing a better, safer, data storage solution hopefully using OSS.

As I already have a couple old laptops I would rather avoid getting extra hardware in that sense, and the idea of the DAS, which was new for me, seemed exactly what will provide what I need. Expandable storage solution to stack some HDDs, I can connect that to one of my existing laptops where I can install OMV (openmediavault) to deal with the drives and storage and use it for the storage of data. I’m getting a centmate with 4 bays, I’ll put one drive for now of 14 or 16 TB and later add another mirrored with btrfs or raid 1. In the future I’ll increase the space as needed.

For the backup I’ll keep using my external drive connected to the other laptop where I’ll probably keep EndeavourOS for now. The most valuable data I will set syncthing or some other alternative but I already have backup of some of the most important stuff so I’m not in a hurry with it.

I think at the time I have the kind of plan I needed. So thank you all for giving some advice, experience, and knowledge. It has kicked me out of indecision hell.

OK, that’s actually a nice point to clarify, and to be sincere I kinda saw it as a backup. But thinking it more thoroughly, it is the kind of “backup” I am looking for. I worry mainly about the hard drive crapping out on me. Then after that yeah, I would have an external HD with the most important stuff backed up and then something out of the house.

To be perfectly clear, I agree entirely with your comment. What you say is extremely important, but the NAS is the actual aspect I need for the house at the moment :)

I said truenas as it was the first to come to mind but it is probably overtly complex for my needs and openmediavault might be better, as far as I can use an open source software on whatever hardware I end up with I’m happy.

Yeah I want an external drive out of the house, but I feel like that is independent of my decision on how to store data at home. Am I wrong? Should I take that into consideration for choosing a nas at home?

Indeed, RAID1 is what I’d probably choose to have a safety net in case of hard drive failure. Something simple to start with.

So after all you just have a normal PC using arch with a handful of disks? So is some of the disks holding copies of the others? I’ll check btrfs, to see what kinda use it can provide.