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Norway's Dropbox Rival Jottacloud is making a Linux app (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
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[–] 5 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

My 1Tb nextcloud instance cost around 10CAD per month and I get office suite and much more. I don't understand why people and organisation don't use it more. It's gsuite or ms365 on a private server.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago* (3 children)

    My 1Tb nextcloud instance cost around 10CAD per month and I get office suite and much more.

    NextCloud is open source and self-hostable? Why not just cut out the middle man, pay for a cheap desktop computer, turn it into a server and host it yourself?

    I don't understand why people and organisation don't use it more

    I personally didn’t like NextCloud, I felt like for the tools they offered there were better alternatives out there, it also felt like I was bringing work home which is a big no-no.

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  • [–] 1 point 54 minutes ago (1 child)

    What do you like better? Especially if it's not like bringing work home.

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  • [–] 2 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

    What do you like better? Especially if it's not like bringing work home.

    In the brief time I used it I’ll admit it offers quite a lot of tools in a single service, I never explored all of them but found alternatives to offer more functionality.

    PDF Editor? BentoPDF

    Calendar? Well there are plethora’s of WebDAV softwares out there; SabreDAV, Davis, Milton.

    Text and or calls? Well lately I’ve converted majority of my chats to Matrix using my own home server and using Sable as my client, I much prefer the transparency with encryption keys.

    If you want everything in one place sure NextCloud is certainly the route, however as I mentioned in my previous comment it felt like i was at work when I was at home, it didn’t fit the need for me and was considered wasted resources on my server.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago*

    Computers require specialized information. Those that have that information are--by nature of capitalism--herded into pens that sell software. For a business a lot of pain and capital could be avoided if its constituents were educated to a satisfactory degree on computers.

    National governments have failed woefully in computer education. What initiatives they had were infiltrated and distorted by for-profit-software which transformed them into classes on how to use their software.

    I do think programming is a required prerequisite to thriving in a modern society. An uncountable amount of hours have been wasted because "the computer said so." To program is as much a requirement as the ability to write was earlier. To be able to utilize a computer without being able to program it is akin to being able to read but not write. There's a fundamental disconnect with software that is exploited for criminal profits.

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