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And in other news, I started actively using Nextcloud in my homelab as "prod", mostly for storing documents and keeping calendar. I even convinced my wife to start using it for documents that need to be shared between us <3
An own Nextcloud is really nice. I was using seafile and owncloud before that. collabora, notes, RSS, music, ebook server, caldav, carddav, bookmarks. there is so much it's the perfect replacement for proprietary clouds. kudos to your wife. Mine still sends me wordpad files....