Same here, not my experience at all. It would also be interesting if the stores are franchises vs corporate owned.
We have Rewe, Kaufland and IKEA supporting self checkout around here and the experience is decent. The interface is not the best. Sometimes a scan fails, but there’s always someone close by who can help.
I would like to see mini-sas as well, but simply for being a bit more flexible in case design and potentially separating heat generating components instead of putting everything in the same box.
But the issue with GPU sag is AFAIK a different one. Jayz2cents had a pretty good video a while ago demonstrating how to fix sag on the case itself without one of the little stands. From personal experience I can say the Gainward Phantom 4090 doesn’t sag in a Fractal Torrent for example.
Logitech X Pro Superlight seems pretty popular and sadly doesn’t work via cable but only Logitechs lightning receiver.
I’ve played with the Superlight for a year or so and and couldn’t notice the difference to the mouse is used before and am using now, both with a cable.
Going from 1000/50 to 1000/1000 would cost me an 860€ premium right now (Germany) and this is a good offer, it can get more expensive without special promotion.
I do not know of an opinionated beginners guide, but would recommend browsing r/selfhosted and r/homelab a bit. Lots of these and similar questions are answered on a regular basis.
Some starting points
- photos: NextCloud
- git: Gitea
- BitWarden: Vaultwarden (even if you deploy this locally you want a SSL certificate as clients will refuse to connect otherwise)
I'd suggest using official docker images to get started as there’s plenty documentation available for all projects and experimenting is a bit easier when you can simply dispose a container without having to worry what’ll happen to your host OS.
As long as you run services locally on your Synology (assuming it supports docker) and don’t expose them to the Internet I’d encourage you to „just give it a try“.
Just don’t immediately start to rely on the services and run a dual strategy (NextCloud and iCloud photos for example) till you updated your container once or twice and feel comfortable troubleshooting issues with your stack. Nothing is more discouraging than having a service you need „right now“ being down and no idea how to get it back up.
If you don't mind horrible experience viewing photos/videos via nextcloud, go on. In my case this was unusable. Thumbnails not pregenerated even after trying (Yeah, didn't spend whole day on that issue) and generates on the fly. So viewing larger directory is... rubbish. Videos don't play as nice not to say they don't even have thumbnails. Feels like "guest book" from 2000 - no features that auto organizes stuff - just a directory with photos and you're on your own with unorganized mess of photos.
How great was HN when it suggested me https://photoprism.app/ - and it really just works! Nice, performant, featureful, yet feels lightweight. Finally I can view my photos.
I still use nextcloud just for sync and photoprism just has directory mounted as readonly. Still, sync from phone feels heavy along with "failed to sync" errors and just hangs doing nothing... I long to try out syncthing
- but then I loose web access to documents which.. maybe someone can suggest some frontend for that?
Nextcloud will soon be at version 25, which will also be named Nextcloud Hub 3. Frank Karlitchek talks about this during the Q&A, about an hour and a half into the video linked below.
However there are major improvements coming in that new version, specifically to the Photos app[1]
Plex is pretty good for viewing stored video and photos (pre-generated thumbnails and video transcoding + preview), while NextCloud is pretty good at syncing them. Install both and point plex to the synced photos and videos directory in the server.
I've gone through some of it and it seems like a decent primer on where to start, but I'm not sure that it has all the required info that OP would want.
- Better repo, user, and access management, all from a browser.
- LFS support.
- Being able to browse code in... well, a browser, is really nice.
- GH-like workflows generally, if you want that.
You can have it use sqlite for the DB to make it extremely easy to manage and backup and such. I'd expect that to be fine up to at least 50 moderately-active users, and maybe much higher.
Fair enough. But I just want a place to put dotfiles that I can share between machines. If I had more complex needs than that, I would probably not have had to ask this question!
You could put your services behind a reverse proxy such as Traefik with forward-auth and expose it to port 443 (HTTPS) on your router, or (that's what I do and am happy with) use the cloudflared [1] demon to connect your services to Cloudflare where they can be protected behind Cloudflare Access using an SSO provider such as Okta (or Github or Google) for authentication. This method does not require you to expose any ports on your router and can all be done on the free/dev tiers of Cloudflare and Okta.
+1 on vaultwarden. I use 2 rpi’s: one in my own house and one in the house of family. I run regular backup’s using BorgBackup. I run OpenWRT on my router with WireGuard on it. I configured my mobiles/laptops to auto-route over WireGuard to my home.
I was shopping for 2 8GB models a few months ago. There is / was a shortage and some shops / resellers charge 200-300% above list price. Highest I’ve seen was 350€. This was the German market, but from what I heard it doesn’t seem to look a lot better globally.
Yes you can[1]. If you want to store TOTPs together with your username and password is something you have to figure out for yourself.
Browser integration works nice, but not as smooth as Apples Keychain autofill. If you go hosted you will need a premium subscription. If you are okay self hosting vaultwarden[2] supports TOTP as well.
Parallels works fine, VMWare Fusion provides a tech preview for M1 - I’m running Debian arm64 VMs this way. Both (AFAIK) don’t support x86 guests and don plan to (virtualization vs emulation). So you’d have the same issues as with as with Docker.
There seems to be a work around with qemu and UTM but I cannot speak to its performance or how viable this solution is.
We have Rewe, Kaufland and IKEA supporting self checkout around here and the experience is decent. The interface is not the best. Sometimes a scan fails, but there’s always someone close by who can help.