A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud
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Nextcloud isn't a 365 competitor?
It's filesync with contacts and calendar.
Even once you build in documents and spreadsheets, 365 at least has separate applications for that - its not a single overblown behemoth.
Nextcloud isn't a 365 competitor?
You're in a thread about it being used as one, so that argument is worthless.
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Who ever wanted a file sync platform that also does calendaring and contacts?
Most O365 & exchange users? If you just want file sync, this isn't for you. If you want a collaborative (online) office suite that can also sync files, it is. It's meant to be able to replace the whole O365 stack, which includes Outlook.
You can also just not use that part, or any part you don't need. This is basic NC functionality that has been there for a very long time, so why shouldn't it be part of the package?
Sure that's why I drive my 4wd anywhere i want to go - i don't want or need 4wd but I can just not use that functionality.
Sorry what office suite is basic NC functionality that has been there for a long time?
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Nextcloud isn't a 365 competitor?
It's filesync with contacts and calendar.
Even once you build in documents and spreadsheets, 365 at least has separate applications for that - its not a single overblown behemoth.
I use Nextcloud for contacts, calendars, files, bookmarks, passwords, to do lists, Kanban boards, and recipies. You absolutely can turn nextcloud into a 365 competitor if that's your jam
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Sure that's why I drive my 4wd anywhere i want to go - i don't want or need 4wd but I can just not use that functionality.
Sorry what office suite is basic NC functionality that has been there for a long time?
Pretty much every car today IS AWD - a better version of plain old 4WD. So even your analogy doesn't work.
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Pretty much every car today IS AWD - a better version of plain old 4WD. So even your analogy doesn't work.
Oh please. AWD is not "better" 4WD. 2 different things for completely different purposes.
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I use Nextcloud for contacts, calendars, files, bookmarks, passwords, to do lists, Kanban boards, and recipies. You absolutely can turn nextcloud into a 365 competitor if that's your jam
Those are add-ons.
Besides which, o365 is not a single self hosted php behemoth.
I'm loathe to extoll the virtues of 365. I don't use it and never will.
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Oh shit
This will undoubtedly have a major impact against Microsoft and even perhaps Google.
AI-powered productivity features.
Everything is pretty sweet except ^the AI productivity features. Hopefully the AI portions are optional opt-ins rather than it being preincluded opt-outs.
I actually want AI on my Nextcloud. As long as it runs locally. We've taken thousands of pictures over the years and desperately need some help in categorising them. Unfortunately so far I wasn't able to find any reliable way to automate it.
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Glad to have helped. The only issue I may have with it is that the web frontend feels a bit slow, but O mainly use it as a file sync service, so it doesn't bother me too much.
Nice to see that the professionals have the same problems I have.
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Well if I uninstaller them what would i complain about?
I don't make the rules. If you're on lemmy qnd nextcloud does exactly what you want you need to complain about it being "over engineered" or "bloated" because it does things you don't need.
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I actually want AI on my Nextcloud. As long as it runs locally. We've taken thousands of pictures over the years and desperately need some help in categorising them. Unfortunately so far I wasn't able to find any reliable way to automate it.
Have you tried Immich? It runs local and is open source. I haven't yet but was planning to soon as I have the same struggle
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Have you tried Immich? It runs local and is open source. I haven't yet but was planning to soon as I have the same struggle
Yeah, trouble is that it doesn't really work well with Nextcloud together so I would have to migrate all of my devices.
And in the end it doesn't work much better than NC.
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I actually want AI on my Nextcloud. As long as it runs locally. We've taken thousands of pictures over the years and desperately need some help in categorising them. Unfortunately so far I wasn't able to find any reliable way to automate it.
Have you tried hiring a couple humans? They're much better than AI. And you help your local (physical or virtual) economy!
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Have you tried hiring a couple humans? They're much better than AI. And you help your local (physical or virtual) economy!
Yes, I love giving other people access to my private pictures I explicitly don't host on Google, Dropbox or other external clouds. I usually pay them from the hoard of gold that's stashed away under my bed.
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Yes, I love giving other people access to my private pictures I explicitly don't host on Google, Dropbox or other external clouds. I usually pay them from the hoard of gold that's stashed away under my bed.
Trusting humans (to any extent) is quite vastly different than trusting corporations, to be honest. But if that's your jingle, you can always do the work with a bulk tagger / gallery assembler. No AI, nor environment killing, needed.
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It's an alternative, but IONOS honestly fucking sucks as well, so I'm feeling pretty ambivalent about this.
What's wrong with IONOS? Their VPS prices are some of the best out there and reliability has never been an issue for me.
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Please tell me they're not writing it in php.
Owncloud infinite scale seems, well, much more scalable
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It's an alternative, but IONOS honestly fucking sucks as well, so I'm feeling pretty ambivalent about this.
Ionos used to be 1&1 which had a fairly poor reputation. Not sure what it's become nowadays. Apparently they haven't gotten much better.
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Nah, it'll be CGI.
Cool, I've always wanted to get back into Perl.
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Sure that's why I drive my 4wd anywhere i want to go - i don't want or need 4wd but I can just not use that functionality.
Sorry what office suite is basic NC functionality that has been there for a long time?
Your analogy doesn't make any sense, so I assume you really don't know. So let me explain:
If you buy a 4wd, it's always a 4wd, usually that means s relatively large vehicle. You might be able to turn it to 2wd, but it doesn't make the car smaller. If you just needed a tiny car in all (or most cases), you can't push a button to make it smaller. You always drive around the extra equipment to possibly make it 4wd.
Nextcloud is plugin based. Assuming this isn't locked away on an instance like this, you can literally push a button and make that whole functionality go away everywhere. You can fully remove that 'clutter', if that's of no use to you. They are offering it always, as it adds no additional effort on the hosters side: they don't need to add gear boxes or whatever to make it have calendar & contacts. If you don't want/need it, turn it off and it's gone.
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Oh shit
This will undoubtedly have a major impact against Microsoft and even perhaps Google.
AI-powered productivity features.
Everything is pretty sweet except ^the AI productivity features. Hopefully the AI portions are optional opt-ins rather than it being preincluded opt-outs.
I have a nextcloud instance and I can confirm that the ai features are plugins, and are opt-in (and also pretty cool, as ai feature go)
