The purpose of most of these apps is to be able to use them on multiple devices. If I had immich entirely running on my phone (this is not actually feasible regardless) how do i access my images from my computer.
Also many people have multiple users. A family could have all their images on one immich server and be able to share images with each other easily.
On jellyfin for example, I can play any of my media on someone elses TV as long as they have Chromecast. Not possible if its all just kept locally in a folder on a computer
Is there a way to share groups of files at once? For example I currently share tax files with my accountant using seafile so right now I scan everything and just drop it into a folder. I would love to use paperless but being able to share folder that can be downloaded all at once is a critical workflow for me.
Android app doesn't have file search last I checked (pro feature).
No full text search on app or website (pro feature)
The app will just randomly stop being able to connect to the database. I use docker and mariadb. It will just fail for no reason. Restarting the docker stack doesn't fix it. I use the redeploy button on portainer to get it working again. I use lots of databases in many docker apps, nothing else does this.
Others have already answered but this might help understand.
On cloudflare DNS, I set my domain to point to external IP address my ISP gives me for my router. Ie example.com points to 107.474.274.12
Within my network, my internal DNS (pi hole) is set to point to the internal IP address of my server. Ie example.com points to 192.168.1.23
Note that in the first example, the router has port forwarding so that all https traffic (port 443) is forwarded to the internal IP of my server, 192.168.1.23. I'm both example, the traffic ends up in the same place but the route it takes depends on if the traffic starts inside my network (example 2) or outside of the internet (example 1).
Just as an FYI its done like this because its vastly faster than flat files.
This is also the reason why NextCloud has lots of complaints about speed and files getting locked and not syncing properly.
Apps that are way faster (seafile, owncloud GO) use proprietary file stores.
Obsidian Live sync works extremely well and quickly to the point that the update speed is almost like a google docs with multiple editors. Couchdb is why.
Lol at the obsidian criticisms in the self hosted community :)
Couchdb is like 20 years old and not exactly 'novel'
I setup a docker for his like 2 years ago and did nothing other than update once in that time. Live sync has otherwise been rock solid on multiple devices.
Obsidian not being open source is very valid criticism. The above 2 things really aren't.
I suspect most people open it via subdomain or cloudflare tunnel and it seems secure enough. Haven't seen reports of people getting hacked left and right.
VPN Certainly is more secure and works for a few people but becomes annoying if you have users that don't want to mess with a VPN. It also helps if you want to make a public share link to someone without an account.
This is a deep sleep issue. A google search will show that many modern processors can't actually deep sleep (S3) and therefore the only option is to hibernate or shut it off.
To find out if you can, sleep the computer, wake it up then run:
journalctl | grep S3
There should be a line about what type of sleep is available and another line about what type of sleep your computer was just in.
If S3 is not listed as an available sleep mode you might get lucky and be able to turn it on in the bios. If you can't then you are out of luck.
Since I use fedora atomic, I used this to turn on deep sleep:
rpm-ostree kargs --append="mem_sleep_default=deep"
The purpose of most of these apps is to be able to use them on multiple devices. If I had immich entirely running on my phone (this is not actually feasible regardless) how do i access my images from my computer.
Also many people have multiple users. A family could have all their images on one immich server and be able to share images with each other easily.
On jellyfin for example, I can play any of my media on someone elses TV as long as they have Chromecast. Not possible if its all just kept locally in a folder on a computer