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self hosted excel like/note taking with columns
  • ah yeah. Its worth having a look at a few and maybe starting a discussion about adding those kind of features. I know nothing about weightlifting but it sounds like your requirements would be common ones.

    What other Apps have you looked at?

  • Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server
    • I don't use tags alot and neither do the users I would migrate

    • I am not sure if this is possible but at the moment they just have gmail accounts but would move to a email with a custom domain - Im tempted to use Yunohost but worried about running my own email server and the responsibility that would come with that but also the size of the email accounts, Id also prefer that Yunohost had scheduled Backups to an external location in place.

  • Anyone tried Co-Op Cloud?
  • Cool really useful feedback. I really like the SSO/LDAP user auth and perms and its cool that it includes email. Im not sure how that is going to go but hey lets find out eh?

    I can see the downsides you mentioned and yeah I guess that I am going to run into them as I have more of the family using the instance.

    Do you think we will end up with some kind of Yunohost / Coop.Cloud Hybrid where you fan start simple and then if you grow move to a containerised / multiple server environment?

    I had sort of thought Coop Cloud was more about managing multiple customers ( but I can see architecturally it is also better able to scale for a single customer. it just feels a shame its a separate project rather than an extension/ evolution of Yunohost. (The BA in me asks could Yunohost be an application inside Coop Cloud to start )

  • Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server
  • Cheers. Ill have a look . I suspect we will just be using a hosting providers email rather than dedicated email service. (Ideally Id like to run own email server but I have heard that can be a real struggle to keep emails being delivered)

  • Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server
  • Cheers. Im going to have a go at that. Ive tried Google..Takeout which got me emails into Firefox but family are demanding and want them in IMAP. Honestly im worried about how many GBs of Storage I am going to have ( And have to backup)

  • Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server

    lemmy.ml Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server - Lemmy

    I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these? I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of...

    I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?

    I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.

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    Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server

    I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?

    I have a family's worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.

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    Next cloud hosted services for individual
  • I use A free tier vps running Ubuntu on Oracle cloud pay as you go account. I installed #Yunohost with my own domain name pointing to the VPS public IP. Inwas running in about ten minutes.

  • Anyone tried Co-Op Cloud?
  • Hey .. I have been looking at both. Im a Business Analyst rather than DevOps so I went for Yunohost.org as it got me something running more quickly rather than Coop.Cloud but I can see the different use cases.

    Can I ask why you described your install as Crufty? What issues have you run into hauving Yunohost for a while?

    It feels to me (Without direct experience running Coop Cloud bit more looking and chatting ) that its more aimed at provisioning multiple instances for multiple customers across multiple VMs rather than Yunohost which seems like more of a - This is one instance on one server/VM

    There is a part of me that likes the user admin features/ GUI of Yunohost and wonders whether people managing multiple organisations across many VMs would want to wrap Yunohost inside Coop. Cloud - but im all new to this.

  • Twenty is building an open source alternative to Salesforce | TechCrunch
  • Many Open source alternatives exist already such as vTiger and CiviCRM.

    For my two cents worth I think they could do well by integrating with Nextcloud and Drupal or WordPress (Or whatever comes out of its current shambles).

    From the article it seems like they are creating a extendible object model which in some ways is similar to what SharePoint has with its lists. Nextcloud has an add-on (Tables) that is a proto version of this. CiviCRM has worked to integrate website data collection from Drupal / Wordpress well.

    Thinking from front of house (website) to back of house (CRM) then Nextcloud the missing link is to Nextcloud ( So documents and images can flow forward into the website Media Library ) and the extensible object model for data.amd being able to link unstructured data (documents etc. to structured data. (Not an expert on CiviCRM so not sure how flexible it is. )

    But good on them for having a go. Let many flowers bloom. Even if it doesn't take off some of their ideas might get adopted by someone else in some other way.

  • How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon?
  • Yup. I got yunohost.org running on a free instance on Oracle cloud (using a PaYG account) but costing nothing. - Ive then spun up an Email, Frendica server (limited to users on my domain) and Takahe to try out ActivityPub.

    I think that a killer app for activityPub would be if MSFT or Google offered it as a service on Workplace / Office365 . (I mean Id rather not use either of them myself)

  • How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon?
  • If you know nothing about hosting your own instance why not start learning? Try something slike running Yunohost.org on a VPS and start running Friendica, GotoSocia, Takahe or even ActivityPub on a Wordpress website to get some experience.

    If you aren't technical then you shouldn't try to make technical arguments but get your academic team to talk to your IT team about the reasons why you want an ActivityPub solution and let them figure out the technical questions.

  • Design patterns
  • So an update on this. I have started looking at yunohost.org because it standardises the installation and maintenance of a variety of common apps - HomeAssistant, LDAP, email server, mqtt, Nextcloud. i recently saw a post on Reddit about succession planning which reminded me about my own questions.

  • do any of you recommend a particular credit card that benefits travelers?
  • Bank of Somaliland has some great deals on travel credit cards, as does Zimbabwe consumer bank, Bank of New Zealand and Icelandic bank /s I'm impressed that you have the ability to open bank accounts in any country when basic KYC rules would limit this for the vast majority of the world's population.

  • Anyone using coopcloud.tech as a bais of their self hosting?

    I am thinking that this might be a bit over the top but Im interested if anyone uses the tools and recipes designed by coopcloud to deploy their self hosted applications.

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    Nextcloud Hosted Services

    I've been looking at alternatives to Google Workspace / Office 365 for SME / non-profits.

    Broadly I have been searching for something that allows an organisation to use their own domain, includes email and nextcloud hosting and a mechanism to manage users/email addresses for the organisation.

    In my ideal solution alongside an email server we would have access to a cloud hosted LDAP server/instance to manage users passwords and permissions and then administrators would be able to spin up instances of applications such as Nextcloud, Wordpress, CiviCRM and other Open source applications as a service.

    I used the list of Hosting Providers on the Nexcloud website alongside the following list I found - https://github.com/thetuxinator/nextcloud_providers?tab=readme-ov-file

    As yet we haven't made any decisions but created a shortlist of providers to consider: These include:

    https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting/nextcloud https://www.stackhero.io/en/services/Nextcloud/pricing https://cloud.ionos.co.uk/solutions/nextcloud#packages https://www.commonscloud.coop/advanced-office/ https://www.federated.computer/pricing/ https://brixly.uk/email-hosting-with-nextcloud-

    None of these seem perfect (I suspect that plenty of have some proprietary components in there (their own User provisioning and billing components )

    I'm not sure any of these are perfect. I've also been looking at https://docs.coopcloud.tech/intro/strategy/ which appears to be aiming to provide mechanism to deliver such services for organisations on top of Baremetal / Cloud Compute and Storage. (Though this doesn't appear to include email and LDAP at the moment) I can see these would be natural extensions.

    I'm also looking to see to what degree this could be achieved using Web Hosting Services (Cpanel now supports creating sub-users that can be configured to access to email, ftp and web storage but I am not sure whether their credentials can be used for single signon for Web Applications running on your account such as WordPress and NextCloud. I need to look at the other major WebHosting Provisioning systems such as ( I think Plesk is one)

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    Starlink @lemmy.ml abeorch @lemmy.ml

    Starlink users - London

    Are any of you based around London and using Starlink either because you are in a blackspot of Fibre / Fixed wireless or any other reason.

    If so I would love to have a chat regarding your experience.

    I have a spot that has no Fibre and a colleague that really wants Starlink but would love to get a view of people's experience.

    As a fall back anyone in a large city using Starlink - Whats been the experience?

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    Proper Open Source Plugins

    When looking for plugins how do people sort through all the 'free' plugins that sound great but are actually 'fremuim' where all the key features are actually in a PRO version?

    How do you locate the fully featured proper open source plugins that are well maintained and used?

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    Sailing Club Tech Stack

    fosstodon.org abeorch (@abeorch@fosstodon.org)

    I am part of #ErithYachtClub and for cost and also just the frustration of systems thay dont play nice with each other Id like to look at the #techStack for the club. I know there are heaps of #communityGroups out there all trying to do #web #crm, #socialmedia #membership, #Events run their #co...

    I'm a member of Erith Yacht Club and I've been working on their website - Adding content and starting to think and talk with others in the club about the technology running behind it.

    More generally I have a background in Marketing and Media Tech, CRM digital and Social media advertising and marketing.

    Keeping the club going with CRM, Website, Accounting systems, Admin, Collaboration , Building tech, Events booking, Social media, email communications is hard work for everyone.

    I'm keen to talk to other sailing clubs who are interested in using OpenSource tech to manage their club, the tech itself and wider issues around that. (Skills, training, tech, costs, data privacy, security - Working with Committees all that kind of thing)

    Tech I have been looking at includes - Wordpress, CiviCRM, Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/en/), obviously love to include Lemmy/Mastodon in our social media but keeping Facebook going is enough work already. I don't just want to talk about the tech though.

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    Home Wiring

    This might be tangential to HomeAssistant but Im currently thinking about a household renovation and one thing I am considering is wiring.

    I have some POE devices along with many other that run with a 12v DC supply.

    I'm lookin at putting in a relatively straightforward 12v battery UPS with a small solar panel to charge. I probably only have space for 1500W of panels so putting in a whole grid tied solution is overkill. Primarily this is to provide backup as we sometimes lose power.

    Networking wise I think I will put RJ45 into each room as we are concrete reinforced construction and so signal quality is an issue.

    My query was how feasible it is to run both standard PEO devices and 12v devices (1-2w) all over POE.

    I thought the alternative would be to run separate 12v cables with USB connectors at the end into each room as well as Rj45

    Is anyone else doing this in their home?

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    Openstreetmap for Canal Boaters

    For some reason despite not owning one I have alot of interaction with Canal Boaters.

    They are always interested in information about places and services along canals and I was trying to think of the best way of explaining how the contribute and use Openstreetmap

    Of course contributing is easy - I just recommend mapcomplete.org, everydoor app, and street complete (less so as its road related)

    And then I recommend an App like OSMAnd to use Openstreetmap - But for Canal Boaters specifically - Is there any way they could use layers or searches, any tips, tricks or Apps specifically get information that would be useful for them or be useful if in a canal boat?

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    AP/router hardware recommendations for RV

    Asking for a friend - Because I have similar ideas - AP/router hardware recommendations for RV

    I'm looking for hardware recommendations for the depicted setup, with an AP/router running OpenWRT in an RV. Requirements:

    • Compact footprint: Very small equipment cabinet in RV.
    • Stable (unattended connectivity with light traffic for months).
    • Dual radios to support simultaneous WIFI uplink to Internet gw, as well as acting as a WIFI AP to clients.
    • 802.11ac or better WIFI speeds.
    • 1 Gbps or better Ethernet ports (at least two).
    • Light traffic over Wireguard link to home base (telemetry).
    • Low power usage preferred, 5V or 12V power supply preferred (available without shore power).

    Any ideas? Thanks!

    My thought was to also add a Starlink Connection using ethernet adapter for when no wifi or Mobile signal is a available and montior the bus with HomeAssistant for security and power management.

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    Power Networks in the USA

    I know that the US has three or four major electricity networks (East, West, Texas, Hawaii) but I dont understand how they are they are regulated or operated.

    In many countries there are generators who produce power, retailers who sell power to retail customers and network operators who 'move' power between generators and consumers either through high voltage or local transmission lines but these roles are separate and you pay a separate fee for the connection/transmission vs the power you buy. Retailers pay to 'move' power from where its produced to where their customers are.

    The transmission companies in most cases regulated natural monopolies. Retailers and producers can be the same company.

    How does it work in the United States? Does one company own everything in some areas? Do you usually have a choice of energy retailer?

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    Dynamic IP - Self hosting

    Im sure this has been asked before i juat can't find where it has been - Maybe need to work on how to search Lemmy better. But...

    Id like to eventually self host some sevices that require external access. While I have IpV6 addresses my IPV4 is dynamic.

    Whats the best free way to be able to point some domains/ subdomains I have to my external dynamic IP and keep it updated. Im running OpenWrt on my router. - So possibly should be posting there.

    Free Dyndns services seem to be a bit crap. Do I need to pay for a VPS? (seems to defeat the point of self hosting)

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    Container Addons

    I'm doing a quick review of the Addons that I am using on my Windows PC. I've had a look at some of the previous posts to try to get an idea of where things are at

    Currently I have the following Container related Addons but I think things have moved on a bit since I looked at this.

    This means that opening Facebook and Google automatically goes into relevant containers and using Switch I can create separate containers for Work, Banking etc.

    I noticed that I'm not using Mozzilla's Multi-Account Containers

    Ideally I'd like to be able to:

    • Have Facebook and Google Open in their own containers
    • Potentially open separate containers for different Google Accounts
    • Allocate other domains to open by default in a specific container (e.g a list of Bank websites into a specific container) but be able to override that
    • Have links from Thunderbird open in relevant containers

    What are people using in terms of Container addons?

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    Design patterns

    Just a bit or a wandering mind on my part but one of the issues in the back of my mind is what happens to whatever self hosting I setup if something happens to me.

    Ideally I'd like to be able to know that in case of emergency Id be able rely on a good friend or two to keep things going.

    My thought was that would require some common design patterns/ processes and standardisation.

    I also have these thoughts because eventually Id like to support other family members with self hosted services at their places. Standardising hardware, configurations etc makes that much simpler.

    How have others approached this?

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    TP Link EAP225 - Flashing firmware

    In the instructions it starts "The Outdoor, Wall, EAP225 v3, and later models can be installed via the web interface after disabling FW." - Can I check what FW refers to? I dont want to muck this up.

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    Tine for a petition to UK parliament

    fosstodon.org abeorch (@abeorch@fosstodon.org)

    Attached: 1 image Ok. I might have had a small drink but this is nuts. Where is the #petition for #govuk #ukgovernment to stop using #twitter and start using #ActivityPub - just #10000 the #ukgov responds #100000 it gets 'considered' for debate in #ukparliament. Who is going to help start a petitio...

    abeorch (@abeorch@fosstodon.org)

    This is a sort of a cross post but I was thinking maybe to get some visibility on the issue of UK public agencies requiring the use of private social networks to engage with them - Maybe a petition? Im surprised that someone hasnt started one already..

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    Should I add hashtags to Lemmy posts

    Ive always wondered. - Should I be adding relevant hashtags to Lemmy posts related to the subject of the post to make the content more findable on other Activitypub services?

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    Considering TP-Link EAP225 Outdoor

    I'm looking at buying a couple of EAP 225s to provide outdoor coverage for two houuses about 15 meters apart - But I haven't been able to confirm how much memory or The CPU it uses to determine if it would meet my needs. I'm looking to run a few Wireguard connections to route traffic through some other gateways as well as proving WAN access for approx five people. Would want to provide captive portals for visitors and some age related content filtering of Internet access for selected devices.

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    File manager for Android with Dual Applications

    My Android Phone allows you to run two separate copies of installed applications and a second space where you can run a different profile for apps (Think a Personal or work persona). The stock file manager clearly captures a range of personal and usage data and information for ad targeting. I'm therefore looking for an alternative open source File manager that I could use that allows me to access files in both profiles as the stock one does. Any ideas?

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    Mycroft hardware

    I understand that the design for the Mark II was open source. Is that correct? Has there been any interest from manufacturers picking up the design and producing their own versions of the Mark II?

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