Following this because Nova is the only way of doing it that I’ve found. I even paid for Hermit premium and instead of a FF badge it’s Hermit icon.

And they just added Omnivore integration, which I’m so excited for.

Yes. I just switched full time to Pop and I love it.

It feels like they’re literally only there as a front for micro transactions, so I don’t bother. I did try a few of the Netflix games since those are ad free, but still… Nothing seems to hold my interest.

Projects like Runtipi have potential for the masses, imo. Single click deployment of apps on your own server…if you can get Runtipi installed first, of course. But hey, a step closer I suppose.

I’m very new to selfhosting, only started in earnest in April of this year. So I definitely felt the hosts frustrations in deploying (or trying to deploy) solutions I wanted to take back from Google and Microsoft. I’m still learning and am almost to the point where I’m comfortable pulling the plug on Google photos entirely. But it’s a lot of research for newbs.

For those but happy with the $50/yr tier, I received a discount offer at the end of my premium trial. Ended up being $25 and I think it’s certainly worth that. That said, I’ll self host it as soon as it’s available.

Acreom is another in this segment of app that is very promising. It is not open source yet, but will be. And I do prefer the plain markdown file format of it and the likes of Obsidian compared to NN, but still a cool app.

I assumed you were asking what was wrong with the Joplin app, since that is what I was referring to in my post about awful android app. I use and love Obsidian on Linux, MacOS, and Android (tablet and phone). The only thing I don’t like about it along the lines of my original reply to you is that task lists and to-dos aren’t very easy or intuitive from Android. It’s doable, but kinda clunky. So for that type of scenario I’m using Quillpad.

But no, Obsidian app on Android is great. Joplin…nope. :)

I use checklists/task lists a lot. The way the app handles those are completely backwards. Checkbox is auto put in the title of the list but when you tap in the body of the list, it doesn’t. And the rendered view of your Todo list is very small with no way to change the font size. You can change the editor font size, but not on the rendered output.

I also don’t like to be required to put a title in at the start of any document. Other apps either name it ‘untitled’ or date/time it was created. This causes friction and if I can’t get my thought down quick, I may lose it.

That plus the whole markdown in a db file killed it for me.

You might look at these relative newcomers to this category of app…with some caveats for why I haven’t switched from Obsidian.

1. Acreom - Not open source yet, but planned. Flat markdown files like Obsidian and Logseq. Dealbreaker for me is that in order to use the app on Android, you have to sign in with Google, Apple, or Github and use their cloud for sync. I’m trying to convince the dev to allow their “local first” mantra to permeate all versions of the app regardless of platform. He is very receptive, so we’ll see. If they do, I can see myself switching to Acreom instead of continuing with Obsidian. But that’s the beauty of open file format, you can pack up and leave very easily!

2. Notesnook - Is FOSS. But not self-hostable yet. That is on their roadmap. Potential dealbreaker is that it doesn’t support markdown, rather shortcuts that behave similar to markdown syntax. As a result of that and their E2EE, the file format is not as open as Obsidian and others that use simple .md files.

…in a database file. That and the awful android app had me look elsewhere. Too bad really, FOSS and self host options with it are great.

Try RISC OS first. It won’t do what you’re asking for, but it’s a super neat vintage OS!

Came to say this. Great co-op fun.

Oh, I’m running Pop!_OS so it’s running just fine. But like I said, I had it mixed up in my head that it was only e2, not their personal tier. But this is great. Thanks!

No worries at all. You just helped me make a decision. I’ve been an iDrive customer for years but recently switched to Linux for my primary OS and thought I was out of luck regarding the 5TB for $79/yr plan. So I’ll have to investigate further.

Wait…the scripts work for iDrive personal? For some reason I thought they were for the e2 storage.

Vampire Survivor. So cheap but fun to jump in for a run or six.

Oh that’s very helpful, thank you.

I’d pay the $10/yr premium if you can swing it. The emergency contact recovery feature alone was more than worth it to me.

For 2FA, I highly recommend Aegis. I switched from both Google and Microsoft authenticator apps earlier this year and it’s been great. I have the backups running automatically and it dumps it into a folder the Seafile is syncing for me. So not only do I have the backups on the server, but on the clients as well. Seafile is then backed up to an encrypted B2 bucket for further redundancy.

I actually lied

How dare you!

In all seriousness that’s good to know. Gives me options to pick from. Thanks!

You bring some valid points up. Considering the low number of servers and clients I might need to reach, a sync certainly isn’t critical. I sought it out because I started distro-hopping when I built my first dedicated Linux PC recently and was annoyed having to set up the password-less logon to the servers I use. Now that I’ve settled, it’s not a concern anymore. And if I do want to try another down the road, I can make sure to back up the config files and import them in the new OS.