That is the example they gave in the article…

You can stream it wherever you are in the world without having to keep it on your phone

I think we are still in an age where few women were encouraged to do technical things growing up, and found those subjects later in school, university or work. I suspect that will change over the next ten years.

Are there any downsides to this? Why isn’t it default if it is so drastically better?

Like Songkick? Haven’t heard of any self hosted thing like it

To be honest I’m not interested in the file sharing side of nextcloud as I use Syncthing, I’m more interested in the utilities (eg notes, kanban) and the office capabilities. I want to replace gsuite

I use Syncthing for my files, I don’t need a Web ui so it’s great and handles huge directories easily.

Yes I have 8gb of ram, but it seems insane that it needs that much considering what it is doing.

I’m not using a Pi, I’m using a j4125 based mini computer, which has made a big difference but the performance just still is not good enough.

The documentation says nginx is not officially supported: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/installation/nginx.html

I am using mariadb

From the instructions it looked like anything other than the default ports is not supported in AIO. I want to host other sites on this server without much complication.

It’s on a SATA drive, albeit hard drive not ssd and I’m using mariadb. Everybody seems to suggest I need a beefier server but as a developer myself, the functionality of the software doesn’t seem to warrant anything more powerful.

The documentation says it is not officially supported: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/installation/nginx.html

I strongly disagree with this, any error message shown to the user should be helpful to the user