Human Crayon

I’ve had a Nextcloud instance running on bare metal for 6 years. It’s been smooth and responsive the entire time. I did use the snap version, which auto updates itself, and nothing has broken in that time. I do run just the base install with no customizations and it just works.

I can imagine adding more to it will increase the possibility of errors.

I’ve always felt that AI was a solution looking for a problem.

I’ve been using Zotero as my bookmark solution and it’s been amazing. I have not setup sync across different devices (or figured out how that would work), but being able to snapshot and page in time and have it forever has been a life saver.

Grok, undress that carrot!

I run proxmox on my server, VMs within that. It has an excellent backup service built in (not the proxmox backup server, that’s separate) that you can set a schedule for and it keeps to it. Very customizable, all my backups (tested monthly) have restored fine for the past few years. If you’re looking for something to run your homelab, I highly recommend it.

I’m going to say this now before anything happens: backup, backup, and backup. Make multiple copies, store them different places. Please dear god backup your data, because no one else will.