Nothing is ever done, even when it evolves to a great functional state that everyone is familiar with, and it works perfectly well. No, we need to fiddle with it to “keep it fresh” which inevitably makes it worse in some way.

Yes, but most bloodthirsty monsters don’t get to use advanced military weapons and don’t receive billions in aide to seek blood

I’m not sure myself, there seems to be better software out there for each individual part of what nextcloud does, but not the whole thing. I’ve been reading up on open cloud, which is a fork of a rewrite of owncloud, which is what nextcloud is forked from. https://opencloud.eu/en/opencloud-community

I haven’t tried it out yet though.

You know where you notice this? As an American buying appliances in Europe. You can buy a front loading washing machine for 300€, including VAT. A refrigerator? 400€. Three years ago I paid 1800 for a fridge in the us, and last year bought a scratch and dent special washing machine for $600

Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.

I wouldn’t say categorically that it sucks.

1. It is inefficient and requires far too many server resources for what it does. Won’t really run on less than 2gb/RAM minimum, with 1-2 users.

2. Add ONS seem to be all over the place with lots of incompatibilities, some default add ons that just plain don’t work.

3. In my short testing it seems to be a bit unstable.

In my opinion, it suffers from many of the same problems as other projects that started out and we’re developed largely by hobbyists like zoneminder, and even home assistant to some extent. Sprawling growth, no strict architecture, little concern for refactoring.

Not me, but my mom bought a Sentra SER lightly used, and got the $1500 dealer special warranty. The warranty had all kinds of stipulations like she had to have the maintenance done at that dealer, with nissan parts, etc, all ways to weasel out of it. Also had to have the service records in full.

Year 1: manual transmission stopped going into reverse, replaced

Year 2: engine failure, replaced

Year 3: manual transmission started popping out of all gears, replaced.

Year 4: bought a Mazda

Each time they tried to deliver the bad news that she’d have to pay $4500 or whatever, but she kept meticulous records, serviced it exactly on time at the original dealer, and insisted on nissan parts so there was nothing they could say. They even tried to say maybe she didn’t know how to drive manual, but she’d been driving exclusively manuals for decades, and you guessed it, she had all the documentation to prove it.

That $1500 warranty probably cost the dealer at least $10k