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The question is mainly about photos/videos from friends and family. In the recent years I always dumped the photos from my mobile phone onto some external hd every few months.

But I notice that things get complicated because they are not really accessible anymore.

Further more, if you have a family, how do you join the photos taken from different smart phones of your family members?

Do you burry them in WhatsApp?

Do you choose a cloud solution, dropbox or google photos?

Do you care about privacy and self host something, or do you not care at all and just print them into photo albums on paper?

Hi,

I am constantly annoyed by the fact that when I use 2 (or more) different systems (e.g. laptop, and desktop pc) it is difficult to keep them in sync.

What do I mean with "keep in sync", for example:

1) write code on laptop use git and commit to repo, pull when home

2) Install vscode on laptop, come home have to install again

3) Install cuda drivers on laptop, come home install cuda drivers again

4) Create a non-gitable file, like word documents (XML), binary, ... come home and use USB stick

There exist software like git which solves 1) pretty well, maybe Dropbox to solve 4).

2) and 3) probably belongs to code as infrastructure, and I know there are tools for this (Terraform, Ansible). I have no experience with these tools, but somehow have the impression that they are rather used for industry, cloud orchestration and not for my simple home-pc laptop problem.

I could even continue. For my passwords I use KeepassXC. In this case you have an encrypted password db you should NEVER EVER lose. So what do I do, I keep it on my laptop, home pc, usb stick. Which is super annoying when creating a new password because you have to sync it up everywhere. I know there exist cloud solutions like one-password and so on, but I do not want to trust them with my password file, even if they tell me about their super cool encryption.

These are only a few examples. This is a constant point of pain, which leads to the fact that I only maintain one system (my laptop) and in fact do not use my desktop pc or second laptop.

Is there a tool which solves my problems? What do you do?

What I am thinking of is

- an open-source solution

- self-hostable

- client-side encrypted

- versionize file changes in general somehow and "push them"

- pull changes to different system

- rollback system, because you messed something up

- sync on startup

In fact I would summarize it as "decouple system state you care about from the underlying hardware".

Hi there, I have a small app (frontend, backend, database) with <100 users. I would like to use my log files to analyze basic metrics, like for example - number of requests - number of comments created - number of shared links per unit of time.

All of this runs on one single server, no big infrastructure, no big data. I am unable to find a SIMPLE tool to collect my logs in some way, parse them, and visualize them in histograms for example.

I know there exist ELK stack, Splunk, Graylog and many others, but all these solutions are much too complex. Especially I do not want to spend weeks setting this up correctly. Further more, most of these solutions need an extra server for aggregating the logdata in some timeseries db.

I would be very happy if you know about any opensource tool which can do this job.