It’s pure greenwashing.

They made a deal with a company that has zero practical experience with nuclear reactors, literally built nothing.

It’s impossible that in just 6 years they will manage to:

1. Build a test reactor for their new unproven technology that as of now exists only as a PowerPoint presentation to show to investors
2. Have it approved by the government
3. Build the full scale reactor
4. Have it approved by the government
5. Get a license to use enriched uranium in a private setting

Even if they finished yesterday to build the final version of the full scale reactor, 6 years aren’t enough to go all through the regulatory red tape

Now that they promised that will use “green” energy in the future, Google can continue to use energy from coal and in 2030 everyone has forgotten about this vaporware deal

this is assuming that mozilla won’t ruin firefox as usually by copying the bad parts of chromium

seeing the latest 5 years, i don’t have much hope

Yes, prestashop is faster than Woocommerce. I manage two e-commerce with both. But while with Woocommerce all I needed extra was a $15/lifetime stock synchronization plugin, with prestashop I would need $100/month of plugins to have feature parity. So I keep prestashop basic as an simpler store under a different domain that doesn’t need stock synchronization or mass import or blog.

Odoo, I loved it at first sight when I tried the 30 day trial 5 years ago. So much snappier than Woocommerce, and with so many features. Its main problem was price and complexity. Official hosted version required a subscription for every single feature. Invoices? That’s $19/month. List of clients? Another $19/month. Blog? Add $19/month. For the tiniest extra feature, needed a subscription. In the end the full package was completely unaffordable and the bare minimum was unusable. The free self hosted version is the most complex install that I had to do in my life. I installed a third party plugin and I broke it beyond recovery. Because it’s in python it requires a dedicated server and not a normal hosting. Unless you’re a Linux guru you have to pay for their hosting service. Luckily recently they realized that their pricing was unaffordable for everyone except huge corporations, so now the full package is around $20 per month.

I feel that’s even worse than Woocommerce in that regard. There was a reason it was forked as thirty bees: v1.7 broke almost all the plugins and had a very slow adoption rate, and plugin developers continued to target 1.6 as it was more popular. The situation stalled for years

Edit: but as a e-commerce is faster than Woocommerce

Maybe, a good alternative that offers everything while also being fast is odoo. But you need to pay for their service, as the free version is very difficult to install and maintain

sure, but why solve problems in 10 minutes when i can do it way more sophisticated using 10x more time and resources?

(at the moment reverted to the easy html form + php send mail)

When I saw this post I assumed it was a parody

Really? A $100 alarm clock with WiFi that requires a Nintendo account subscription? It’s going to be sold out tomorrow.

Use a better alternative store like droid-ify, it can do automatic updates for all the apps it installed first

can’t wait to run an emulated copy of “new new super mario bros wii u deluxe switch 2 edition” on my pc

Sometimes they publish a masterpiece that really pushes the hardware limits, sometimes they publish a shitty lazy unimaginative port of a port

In both cases they sell millions of copies

Well, while I don’t understand their stubbornness of supporting Google drive, (Google restricts it so much? Ok then just remove it and blame Google. Replace with Dropbox/WebDAV/ftp/whatever) IMHO they’re right about the piracy. Years ago I tried to be an app developer for Android and iOS and I personally experienced that iOS users are willing to pay for everything. The in-app purchase to remove ads on iOS was bought by many, while on Google play literally a single person got it. Maybe it can be simply that because iPhones are 5x more expensive than the average Android (in my country there are no carrier locking and no carrier discounts at all), then users are wealthy or they’re adult workers, while kids and students get the cheaper Android phones.

I closed both dev accounts years ago and now I’m android user. As an user, I simply cannot imagine paying $5 on Android for a glorified text editor with all the free alternatives that are available. Maybe android users are cost conscious?

This is the top 10 most sold apps in my country:

1. Game Booster 4x Faster Pro (users tricked by deceptive ads)
2. e-Connect (an app to manage a specific home security system)
3. Threema
4. Obd torque pro
5. IPTV extreme pro (used by pirates that want to watch soccer)
6. Peakfinder
7. Metronet (an app graphically identical to e-connect but with a different icon and name)
8. Analog Rolex Royal Watch face (with obvious trademark infringement but of course Google doesn’t care)
9. Tasker
10. Nova launcher prime

Now, this is definitely alarming.

A smartwatch watchface is the #8 most sold app in a country with 30 million android users???

#2 and #7 have a combined download count of 20k! And are in the top 10???

Peakfinder is the #6??? How many people in October are trekking so much that they need to know which mountain are watching???

Tasker and nova launcher?? Yes I also bought those two apps but are for power users, the 1% of users.

it’s nice and faster than woocommerce, main issue is that almost every extra feature is provided by a plugin that needs a subscription and i hate subscriptions, i prefer to get a permanent license and pay extra for a new version only if and when it’s actually updated

Thirty bees is a fork based on an ancient version of prestashop (1.6, released TEN years ago). While it’s much better than what prestashop was at the time of the fork, IMHO it’s better to go with prestashop 1.9 (now called 9) if you need any extra plug-in, as third party developers abandoned support for 1.6 a long time ago.

I had a similar problem when using nginx proxy manager. In the end I just gave up and directly used cloudflare tunnels+cloudflare ssl

What about Publii?

WYSIWYG static site generator but personally I like to keep the content in markdown pages in a git repository so i can keep unlimited edit history; this saves everything in a local sqlite database.

Unfortunately the most powerful one that checks all the boxes, including automatic upload to s3 is hugo, but as you said the learning curve is high. Maybe try to see if you can run the example site of this theme, install hugo in your system, then go in the examplesite directory and run hugo serve. Slowly edit the files until you understand how it works.

I tried nextcloud photos for ten minutes and it looked like you can add photos to an album only at the moment of their creation. And you need to choose them one by one, don’t have “select all”. And you can’t select photos already uploaded in the past. What? Couldn’t think of a worse gallery than this.

Me too, just saying that encryption isn’t always a pro

Encryption in self hosted when you’re hosting only your personal data isn’t really a positive feature

For the case of ente, having all the photos in encrypted blobs in a minio container, means you have to export the content every night using their cli tool, verify it, repeat for every family member, then backup the result

Technical question, if it’s e2ee, it means videos can’t be transcoded? Modern smartphones encode video at a bitrate that doesn’t allow real time streaming on 4g

This is a photo gallery that can replace Google photos, while using nextcloud as a photo gallery is a proof of concept that can’t be even considered alpha quality

When on my personal install the music app was broken after an update for months, I didn’t complain at all. Because I went to see who was the maintainer: owncloud. Not their fault. In this case was my fault. Definitely my fault and without sarcasm. A third party plugin is expected to have problems after updates. Completely understandable. They’re even competitors.

First party plugins instead, MUST work at all times versus the latest stable release. It’s the reason I didn’t check compatibility.

This is the concept I want to say. It’s not hard. I’m not saying “the update process must be idiot proof”. When shit like this happens, it completely erodes trust in users. It’s not stable, it’s beta. It’s a tiny detail. It’s just a number on the manifest. What does it cost to update that number to 30 for the forms app? (The “incompatible” version runs perfectly fine when the check is overridden)

But no, let’s defend this behavior of moving fast and breaking things for no reason, like that issue thread on GitHub where users are rightfully pissed that the Windows nextcloud desktop client reboots without confirmation and fanboys are dismissing it “eh the cloud indicators in explorer.exe are so important, must reboot at all times, what’s the problem”

Do you agree that first party stuff must work? (unless it’s discontinued)

Would you expect Microsoft Office 365 being disabled after upgrading to Microsoft Windows 11?

And finally, how I persuaded the it department. Here I make a list of all the members:

We were just searching a way to host a worthless survey that nobody is watching instead of paying $350 to Surveymonkey. We drank the marketing cool aid and assumed that something heavily promoted just 6 months ago would be supported. But this is unreasonable.

Solution 1: waste a week doing your suggested way of multiple installs and custom unit tests and every quarter check carefully everything because nextcloud “stable” is as stable as a house of cards.

Solution 2: delete nextcloud and write a form in PHP+HTML in an afternoon, don’t have the same problem with nextcloud 31 next quarter.