I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

Have you considered something like tailscale?

See, again, nitpicky details, even though we both know exactly what was meant.

Oh, I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t use the exact wording that the semantic overlord required for his incantations.

Let’s recap, you only read the title, which by definition does not contain all the information, you wrote an extremely arrogant and absolutely not helpful comment, if challenged you answer with even more arrogance, and your only defense is nitpicky semantics, which even if taken at face value, do not change the value of your comment at all.

You are not helping anyone. No, not even others.

The closest one is about a trip over the Atlantic away.

It’s absolutely opaque to me, especially the non-big-name brands barely get any reliable reviews and especially given the silicon lottery, I can’t tell if every chip is like the reviewed ones.

If I just happen to get the bad module that craps out after 6 months, the positive reviews are not that helpful.

Honestly, that is the typical self-righteous stackoverflow response that is helping no one.

You know exactly what I mean, you know exactly how to treat the question, but you chose to play captain obvious of the second arrogance division and posted this.

Of course devices will fail at some point, what are you even trying to add here?

The clear answer is: don’t use subversion. There’s really no reason not to use git, since you can use git just like subversion if you want to.

Yes, I forgot that, it was a long day.

In general, one should check how much power actually costs versus buying a new device.

Even in Germany, having something draw 1W 24/7 costs something like 20 cents. It’s really not worth the hassle or money to micro optimize and buy something like an SSD.

I’m just playing around with it on my home server, and yes, it does get annoying sometimes.

The whole system is far from being perfect, but I’m hoping for a mixture of learning on my side and improvements on the system’s side.

But, at least in theory, you’ll only do it once.

I’m pretty sure, ChromeOS also uses a GNU userland.

My windows have arches, BTW.

That sounds like duct-tape-Nixos with extra steps.

Then you either have very large hands or don’t update that much. When I did use Arch for a while, Pacman often enough broke some stuff.

It also wasn’t what I was referring to when I said I broke my shit by a mistake so you’re sticking words in my mouth.

No, I interpret your words in a way appropriate here. You said, that only mistakes cause errors, I said that updates caused errors, and that I don’t think updates count as mistakes. So either you think that updating is a mistake, or we have fundamentally different experiences using Arch. I’m only sticking the shit in your mouth that you left their in the first place.

Doing an update is not a mistake.

Again, this is exactly how the system is supposed to be used. You run whatever the update command is on your system occasionally. If that regularly breaks your system, the OS is not a stable platform. That might have its reasons, but it doesn’t change the facts.

“That I didn’t cause myself” is basically self-gaslighting. Using a system in exactly the way it’s supposed to be used shouldn’t cause any issues. Regular updates shouldn’t cause issues. Sure, it can happen, but it shouldn’t be the norm.

If you actually want to use your machine, keeping the machine from nuking itself shouldn’t be a hobby on its own. I need a reliable platform to work on, not a minefield on a fault line.

But you don’t. And neither do 99.99% of users.