That makes sense. What is weird though is the dev wrote the app for multiple platforms, including Debian, RPM-based and a few others. So it not like it is one of those ‘compile only from source and good luck to yah’ kinda apps.

But thank you for the response. I do appreciate you taking the time!

I too use CachyOS. But i am very new to it. Why are we more ‘protected’ than straight up Arch users? I like Cachy, but have a gripe with how some applications behave, especially Java based Apps, that have a native installer in AUR (not building from source). I have one application that is built in JAVA, and the text is so freaking small, all the pop-up windows open on the wrong place which makes the pointer inaccurate etc. But I digress. The question was more why should we feel more relaxed than the Arch guys and gals?

As others have mentioned : Openproject. You can intergrate with Nextcloud to keep files stored in a file manager, and keep project management side lightweight.

That is a very valid point, thank you. I saw that too. I just don’t want to go PaperCut just yet, because I honestly don’t feel it is worth the cost. I would rather have us spend the money on proper hardware for our hosting capabilities.

Thank you for your response.

You are correct. I mistook your comment to refer to people in general, rather than trained professional coders. So indeed, you are correct.

So this is going to invoke a multitude of downvotes, but here goes.

I will give you an example. I can read a bit of python code, not the advanced stuff, but enough to understand to a large degree what the code does. Last week, I had the need to add a button to Netbox that will download a multitude of device configs that are being rendered via config templates. This use case helps a whole department apply configs, without having to create them by hand.

I knew Netbox has a very powerful plugins ecosystem. The way the base code is written grants the capability of adding any type of plugin you might need in your unique environment. I used Claude to create this plugin for me. I wrote a very specific spec file, told it to utilise the already built pynetbox plugin and ensure it uses nothing fancy that is not sustainable. It created the plugin, helped me with pip installing it, and I deployed it on my dev environment where I tested it extensively.

My alternative to using claude: Asking our internal development team to write something like this. I would need to wait 3 weeks to even get a spot on their meeting for the request, just to then be told their backlog is full with customer code and they won’t be able to help. This plugin will help our support team with fewer calls, because the configs are accurately built according to the source of truth (Netbox) and will need less human input. So in the greater scheme of the company, that is a net positive.

What I will do when Netbox updates, is update my dev environment, install the plugin, and test it. If something broke, I will troubleshoot it, of course I will be using Claude with error logs etc, then update the plugin code to work on the new netbox. Is this ideal? Probably not. Is it the only way to get this done? Maybe not either. Is it all I can do at this very moment? Yes.

My specialist fields are the lower levels. Hardware, hypervisors and setting up VMs + System Software. I need code from time to time to get something functional done. I don’t write whole systems with Claude, that is just ridiculously naive. But small pieces of functional code that solves a single small problem, I honestly don’t understand the problem with that.

My 2c.

CTRL + W? Why did I only learn about this today? About 20 years too late! Thank you.

No, but for these OnlyOffice is a viable alternative. @surgarsweat was referring to way advanced features, not something secretaries or HR or accounting will need. I have use OnlyOffice for 6 years now, and have yet to find an Excel need it could not fulfill.

I think he meant self-hosting Opencloud

Nomachine

I am with gustofwind here. I use AI to help me quickly draft up mindless policies, then read through it and edit it where needed. It is a lot faster than any typing I can do.

I also use it to help me find configs for stuff I deploy, but I make sure it attaches the source link for me, so I can read the original source docs and keep a sane approach to what I am doing.

Again, I also think it is way overvalued, but to say it has not helped me build successful stuff over the past 2 years would be a lie. My 2c

GitLab can do all of this. But iirc the Epic feature is paywalled. As for a plain ticketing system(that can integrate with GitLab, try Zammad.

I concur. If you want ‘basically word with a different logo’ use OnlyOffice. Collabora is not there.

Does each user have their own account? Or can anyone and everyone see all the pdfs? Or are the pdfs only stored for the duration of the browser session?

Somewhere a mathematician just had the biggest heart attack ever 😂

Welcom to the world of self-hosting :-D

First Friday of the month. Easy to remember.

Thank you for all the information. I have had servers now for 7 years already, and honestly I still love them. I run a bit more than just seflhosting home-based applications, but I totally get your point. I am a bit older, and therefor a bit more old-school :) I sleep safely to the hum of redundant PSUs and Hardware RAID SSDs, haha.

Especially thank you for PiKVM and NanoKVM. I am looking into that a bit.

I am fully off-grid, so power cost is not that big of a deal, and the servers are far enough away for the noise not to bother me.

I am not against anything you said, honestly. And I got a lot of new info. I am going to say this though: I am still not too convinced on the software RAID thing though. Maybe I am just too stupid, but I have not been able to get this going with the same ease, and have it recover as easily as proper hardware RAID. One day I will take the leap again and try to “get with the times”.

Thanks again for all the info! Honestly appreciate it.

This is an interesting take. I prefer the other way around, because of redundancy in things like PSU and raid etc. So your take is really interesting to me. I am rethinking my setups for sure.

My wife is a pianist. She bought an iPad and we paid for Forscore. So far, worth every cent. Yeah yeah I know, communism and Apple bad, opensource good and all that. But bloody hell, with Forscore the money was worth it. Being able to use facial gestures to turn pages, link up multiple sources for sheet music and a helluva lot more, I would recommend it to anyone serious about music, any day.