Maybe my argument was oversimplifying. What I wanted to say is that Nextcloud alone does not provide a platform to fulfill the needs of a school (Teachers, kids and parents included) but it requires a lot more.

Using Nextcloud as a starting point is imho the wrong approach. Nextcloud should be used as a part of a bigger solution that actually tries to create/provide a solution for schools. Nextcloud should be tightly integrated into that overall solution.

And you are absolutely right: it solves the problem of sharing **homework material **. Bit this is its job: sharing files. Nothing more.

Do you have some (recent) blog post or video to share where someone display their experience? I would be pretty interested in that.

Something that is not based on AOSP but runs a mainline Linux kernel version (or a patched version of one) and supports the above mentioned features.

Can you buy this anywhere? On their page it is mentioned as out of stock.

Having Nextcloud does not fulfill the actual needs of a school:

• timetables/class schedules
• provide information about homework
• possibility to inform school that a child is sick
• grades for the kid
• chat platform per class and between kids, teachers and parents

Nextcloud is for filesharing. But filesharing is not a priority need for a school. Yes, you can try to solve this via plugins and stuff. Bit this is just trying to bend something into shape that is not meant for the job.

Better to use a different platform actually tailored to the use case. For example edupage. But edupage has lots to improve (e.g. using in in the browser on mobile is horrible and the UI is very cluttered).

So I don’t see how this actually benefits a school.

Is there like a single Linux based OS that runs at least on one phone and supports basic smartphone stuff like:

• Calling
• Camera
• GPS
• Mobile Data
• WiFi

All flavors of Linux I tried did fail at one point or the other. Without getting at least the basic stuff working on at least one phone all the other advantages are worthless.

I have one of these on my backup Server. But about 2 out of 5 times the HDMI signal is not detected (after the Backup Server was running for a couple days) and I need to restart the Backupserver to get it working. restarting the JetKVM does not work. In comparison I had none of these issues with a NanoKVM. I don’t know if it is a problem of the JetKVM or the Backup machine.

You could use a NanoKVM together with tailscale: https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/network/tailscale.html

These cost around 60€ (don’t know the dollar price) on Aliexpress (I remember them being a lot cheaper in the past…).

You do not need to use tailscale on the NanoKVM. You could use whatever VPN tooling your router supports to connect to your network and then to the NanoKVM.

P.S. There was fuzz in the past about them including a small microphone that was not documented. Make of that what you want.

Does anyone have some more information about the technical part? What kind of filesystem support does it use (mdadm+ext4, BTRFS, ZFS, etc.)? Who maintains updates for the Apps? Are they manually maintained by them or do they just reuse what is available on e.g. dockerhub? How does their integrated backup solution work (filesystem or database based, rotation, encryption, etc.).

Their tiemline on their webpage is pretty outdated. But on github you can see that they are actively maintaining it.

Anyone got some real life experience with it?

Do you compartmentalize the disks again, or do you just make different folders?

Yes, when you are not using BTRFS. Due to OMV using ext4 as default you basically create your Raid and then folders/networkshares on top of it.

ZFS on the other hand allows you to create datasets which are separate ZFS filesystem object that can have its own settings (quota, reservations, permissions, etc.). The “same” goes for BTRFS which supports BTRFS subvolumes.

I do not know how well OMV supports BTRFS and how well it is integrated in the overall workflow. Therefor I cannot give a recommendation if it is feasible to use BTRFS on OMV.

Just checked my UPS. It sits at 105W for:

• HP Mini PC
• Synology 4 Bay NAS
• DrayTek Router
• Mikrotik 16 Port Switch
• PoE Switch
• 3 AP’s
• 1 Raspberry Pi 3B
• 2 NanoKVM

If you could provide this information on your site (including an explanation about the process on his to set it up) that would be great!

Are there limitations planned in regards to the amount of users for the enterprise plan?

How do you handle things like

• custom domains
• federation with an identity provider of the customer
• customization for look and feel and technical (limitations for repo sizes etc.)
• how do you handle connections to customer internal systems like artifactory, wiki, issue tracker, jira, etc.

I could not find an information about that on your site.

Working in a large corporation and also having worked on SaaS solutions these are important topics. Without even some rudimentary Information about that I wouldn’t even consider your service.

Code hosting is the easy part. Propperer Integration eithwith external systems and separating customer data is the hard part.

I am also using Beszel after using checkmk. For me checkmk was way too complicated (but is also way more powerfull) to setup and maintain propperly. So I switcheed to beszel because it is much easier and good enough for my use case which is:

• Is the thing running at all?
• Disk full?
• CPU, network, etc. on full throttle for some strange reason?
• send me a mail if somethings wrong

Besides that I don’t need anything. The only thing missing is SNMP support to check switches, routers and AP’s.

Thanks for sharing! Never heard of them but their smaller models (especially the 36B and 32B Model) sound very promising for lcoal deployments.

However it is kinda strange that the 32B model performs that much worse in Terminal-Bench 2.1 compared to the 36B parameter model.

Even for empty buildings this can be a problem. Because nobody takes care of them the city will need to take care of it to prevent the Building to negatively impact adjacent Buildings (e.g. structural hazard due to instability).

And if it affects public buildings (schools, City Council, etc.) they are directly affected. So yeah… quite messy.

Thanks for linking this article. It was very interesting to read! Especially the part with rising Groundwater levels and the negative impact on existing buildings that did not plan for rising groundwater levels after the end of the mining in the area.

Ah ok. Thanks for clarification!

According to the “Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde” at least for some of the bigger (and older ones) the water quality is “excellent”.

For example Senftenberger See and Geierswalder See. Unfortunately for many of them no data about water quality is publicly available. Probably because they are not open to swimming. Source: https://geoportal.bafg.de/karten/badegewaesser/?page=Seite#zoom_to_selection=true

I do cooking on living history events for dozens of people. And creating the shopping list for them (where a recipe is based on another recipe) is always a painpoint. This sounds versy interesting (never heard of it).

I will give it a try. Thanks for sharing!