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Guess I'm setting up a locally hosted file server in the near future.
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This is very impressive and I'm highly likely to give it a whirl. My question is, though: would it be something that my very non-tech savvy wife could use?
Eg. I'm thinking setup the app on her phone with a default location and when she asks me for a file I can just tell her that I've "put it in the app", and she'll be able to easily retrieve it. Also same thing but vice versa, though the video seems to cover that via the Android share menu...
Again, super impressive. Good job!
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Very sleek project. The language switcher bit was brilliant hahaha. Seriously, good job.
This is insane. I think I'd use ten different applications and still not cover these features. And I can host this. Using a single python file.
This looks sick. Thanks for making and sharing it!
Thank you so very much. I needed to transfer some files locally yesterday and didn't have a NAS set up. So I thought I would quickly set up a samba share on my pop-os media server so my spouse (windows) and I (mint) could swap/store files on the fly in the future. It took me 25 minutes and I almost gave up because my config file was having issues.
This looks sooooo much nicer. May every road rise up to meet you
For such operations we use LocalSend.
That's for the recommendation. That could be useful as well!
I would add PairDrop to your list to have bookmarked. It's completely web-based so no download required and thus fully cross-platform. It also works across different networks (i.e. over the internet) by pairing devices or creating a room. Basically Apple AirDrop, but universal and on steroids.
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Looks really cool. Might spin up a test bed to try.
I’m in the market for a self hosted file server so I can use it as a destination for website backups. Absolutely going to give this a look next week. Thanks for posting about it!
Haven't looked at the project yet, but that's just the greatest name for a fileserver...
Have been playing around with it for a bit and it's AMAZING.
This is cool. Idk if it’s just me but the h.264 version of your video has no sound!
man... that's really unexpected, I went with h264+mp3 which should be the most conservative / broadly-supported combination you could possibly use, yet still (ﾉ ﾟヮﾟ)ﾉ ~┻━┻
what webbrowser / device / player are you using?
This is me browsing slrpnk.net using the voyager app,on iOS latest version on iPhone 14 Pro, it then opens it in whatever built in player the app uses. Other versions work fine though. This app has me excited as I consider starting self hosting!
awesome thanks, should be able to reproduce it then :>
Looks fantastic, I'll actually be trying this. Love how it doesn't lock my files into some obscure format like seafiles.
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nice project! I'll check it out! I've also really enjoyed your replies here. it's obvious you really know your stuff. thanks!
Ok this is too damn cool. Will be checking it out soon, but moving to a new apartment this week so I probably shouldn't dive into new distractions just yet...
Now it would be interesting to setup a raspberry pi with harddrives plugged in the USB 3 ports💡
OMG I just posted this to lemmy and saw it had already been posted. Great work! Amazing video!!
I looked at the comparison for Seafile as that's the one I'm most familiar with. In my opinion Seafile's greatest strength is its encryption, but in your comparison you seem to see this as a negative as I assume this bullet refers to the encryption? "isolated on-disk file hierarchy, incompatible with other software. much worse than nextcloud in that regard"
the intention with that statement was that seafile, by default, places all the files inside its own proprietary file container thing, where the files are not easily accessible from the server's actual filesystem, using regular linux utilities. My knowledge of seafile is really minimal, so this could be wrong -- in which case I'll fix that right away! or, at the very least, try to clarify what I meant to avoid this confusion.
in case you happen to know -- are you aware if it's possible to use Seafile while having it just place all the files and folders on the disk like any other program would?
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OMG! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time!
I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!
This is really impressive