Nice rant ;)
I did never have any problems with installing it, but once or twice with upgrading. And I agree with you that the setup is complex with all the possible options and getting it to run well takes some time.
When it comes to the apps, Nextcloud is a very open system. Its easy to publish an app, and the quality of the apps varies. Some apps are abandoned and don't work in recent versions. Personally, I would recommend to keep the number of apps low for stability and security reasons.
Badly. Nextcloud is a very active project with many plugins and integrations. You can even integrate a mail system and AI image tagging, chat and video calls.
Owncloud focussed more on the enterprise sector and less on fancy features. Definitely the more stable product (but not only in the positive sense).
I think more "intelligence" in parsing the documents would be well-received. Just as OCR is fundamental to paperless, AI features could be the next step forward. Automatically extract the relevant positions of e.g. a bill, understand the document (and select the correct date, not my birthday) and apply correct tags to new documents.
Paperless definitely do belong into some chatbots!
Definitely!
Some features like a "tl,dr" bot would probably not even need high end hardware, because it does not matter if it takes ten minutes for a summary.
Features like a chat bot do not belong into paperless IMO.
You are right with the first part. It only takes three clicks to scan a doc and have it available.
As for me, I'm not interest in sending my documents to open AI. But it would definitely offer some nice functions.
My personal setup:
I have been playing with some other tools, but these are the most important for me.
Your comment is 100% true. Still I would not advise it, it is not worth the hassle for a home setup IMO.
However, if you have a larger setup and want a strict control of your zones, then bind or powerdns might be suitable.
I think the fact that Windows 11 is only supported on 8th gen makes the previous generations quite cheap. Many companies are preparing the upgrade to windows 11 and start throwing the old stuff out.
You need two caddy servers if there are other websites on the vserver that will use port 80/443. If not, port forwarding (eg. with iptables) will work.
I found this writeup and it looks correct, but I have not tested it.
The author posted a nice graphic that shows the idea:
My suggestion would be to setup a VPN service in your publicly available v-server. The most suggested solution is wireguard.
Then you can connect your truenas to that VPN and make it accessible, maybe via nginx.
The traffic flow would be:
nginx on v-server --(wireguard)--> traefik --> Nextcloud
I personally have used the cheap ssd prices this year to buy a 4 TB ssd for my NAS. Reasons for this decision include physical space, energy consumption and noise.
However, the backup for my NAS is on a HDD.