There’s a use case for this but who knows how big this niche is, and ultimately that’s what will determine success or failure.

I do use nextcloud for my small consultancy team but I dislike it immensely, mostly due to personal preferences.

I think I pretty much just don’t like having one platform that does everything. I want to self host my own cloud, I don’t want to self host a thing that provides a cloud.

Additionally, and this really is just a personal preference, I dislike php projects almost as much as Java.

Primarily I use nextcloud’s file sync. This aspect is IMO extremely well implemented. It seems to work very reliably.

We do use contacts and calendars. If there were good alternatives I would switch to them but sabreDav et al lacks a good UI. I’m aware you can disable this functionality in nextcloud.

Anything else that can potentially be integrated is better hosted separately IMO.

Yeah. The dunning kruger effect is a real problem here.

I saw a meme saying something like, gen AI is a real expert in everything but completely clueless about my area of specialisation.

As in… it generates plausible answers that seem great but they’re just terrible answers.

I’m a consultant I’m in a legal adjacent field. 20 years deep. I’ve been using a model from hugging face over the last few months.

It can save me time by generating a lot of boiler plate with references et cetera. However it very regularly overlooks critically important components. If I didnt know about these things then I wouldn’t know it was missing from the answer.

So really, it cant help you be more knowledgeable, it can only support you at your existing level.

Additionally, for complex / very specific questions, it’s just a confidently incorrect failure. It sucks that it cant tell you how confident it is with a given answer.

Lots of love for LibreOffice.

Its a great opensource project that just keeps chugging along being great.

My team and I use it exclusively in our consultancy. Complex documents and spreadsheets all day long. LO never gets tired.

Without LO id be beholden to Microsoft.

Apache should really release the rights to the name OpenOffice and let LO have it.

The ribbon UI sure is shit.

LO has a command palette which is handy when looking for obscure functions. Shift esc.