OhVenus_Baby

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[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Absolutely and this post has done just that. Which is exactly why I made the entire post to begin with.

I have a set of problems and wanted to try to solve them as resource friendly, open source, as possible. I will consider all tools for the job. Open, closed, what have you. At the end of the day the best tools for the job always wins.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Everything is by the book. It's a family business. I have documentation of every single move that's happened since my arrival, I'm in the financials and business customer and vendor relations. None of what your saying holds any water at all. You simply have misjudged the situation. Likely due to my poor explanation.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you for the feedback. This seems to be the general consensus. What tech stacks would be good given the circumstances I'm now finding myself in. Personally I dislike Google and all that. But this is business. People need to survive and eat.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Right now the admin team is 2 people and mostly myself. The labor side is growing as work flows in. The whole reason I took this job is the stake in the company. Its been around for nearly 3 decades very well established and deep roots in the community. The key players are still in the business and industry tied. They have assets and a good crew. But no real internal structure and infrastructure.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Well the entire business has been ran analog for 2 decades. The problems I am trying to solve are the entire business workflow. Intake to outflow. They use Sage50 for accounting, vericlock to integrate into sage for time tracking software. Beyond that gmail for email. Nothing is connected, integrated.

Everything else business wise is up for grabs. The NAS and paperless was to start scanning in papers and mail and organizing it into something that isn't piles of paperwork and a mess. Photoprism/immich was for hosting all the businesses pictures of projects, portfolio photos.

We need inventory management for tools to supplies. VOIP phone service which was planning to us FreePBX. They pay for a service Ooma but it's terrible and 30 a month.

The goal is to establish a work flow for a manufacturing business. From scratch.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

I work at the business. In the office. Got a role change. This is on me entirely for now. Nothing I can't back out of. That being said the point is to streamline and to simply the business workflow. It's all analog and papers scattered and stacked everywhere for over 2 decades.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (11 children)

Noted. What are some closed source ideas? Give me better solutions or anything over negativity. I am helping a local business.

The value they seek is to privatize their own data, run their own software free of subscription services and pricing, being bound by all the usual constraints of big corporations. Its a small business.

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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

In the land of all the self hosted solutions. What are your best practices / options for business and general admin tasks?

So far we are thinking of setting up a NAS, Paperlessngx for document scanning, FreePBX for phone system, they have accounting software and employee time tracking software. Planning to use nextcloud, running on Proxmox including backups to NAS, with tailscale for 2 people to get in from outside, photoprism for photo storage, portainer.

The goal is a simple, clean, hands off, ways to cut down, centralize the general business work flow. This is a from scratch build and start. All options welcome, the point is to explore ideas. Full production environment for a small business. 1 or 2 office people, 1 to 10 employees. Using a gaming rig mid high end specs which is way overkill for this setup but it might grow depending on this post.

I am looking to FOSS-ify a local business. It's a service based business, that also does manufacturing which is growing rapidly to overtake the service side it seems this is their goal anyhow.

This is our time to shine! To show how far we have come and what we can now do! An exciting project.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago

This is atrocious for tire consumption and wear. Which tires are one of the top major contributors to pollution.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

You can get them now days up to 360hz refresh rate. Gaming projectors and projectors in general have came a long way from the faded blurry shit they were 10 to 15 plus years ago.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I find it weird that they are developing a personality to chat. It's been saying things like that's a whole vibe, or something similar. It's off putting and not how I would expect an AI to respond.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is and its not. You just have to know the limitations, some of which I mentioned. Try it for yourself and to a restore then report back you'll understand it's very cumbersome in some ways.

Don't expect to be able to wipe a phone and restore from backup like you never left it'll get you closeish. So you need to ask yourself is that good enough for you with your opsec and threat model? To only have part of your data back..

In its current form its just a hassle right now to create backups on seperate drives (not even partitions on one drive I tried, as seedvault and the OS only identifies the drive you don't get to choose) for each profile plugging them into your phone individually, backing up each one, and keeping them up to date often, it's a lot! I have swapped several pixels and profiles I hate doing it everytime it really is a subpar process. I AM ALL EARS FOR A BETTER SOLUTION. Having to piece your data back together for it to be complete again doesn't sit right with me to be considered backed up correctly. It leaves you vulnerable and some of us don't like being locked into any specific device or situation like having your life on a device and being at the mercy of it for any reason you might encounter. I'm actually moving away from graphene due to these issues. It's just not there yet.

Its one thing to read the documentation and another to have experience in using the software first hand which is why I got downvotes, over time, daily those are the ones who have experienced what I mean. I just wanted people to be aware that it's not the saving grace yet.

Imagine the real world use case of backups and maintenance which should be done as often as possible as to lose as little data as possible. Phone gets broken, stolen, confiscated, what have you. Having reliable backups is the difference between starting over and continuing with what could be your entire life in this digital age.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The project has sort of silo'd itself into security which is only one part of the equation. Rather than overall completeness, functionality, maintainability. It's lacking major fundamental feature sets. Thus its more of a tails meets whonix/Qubes right now not a all in one bow wrapped package to save the day for its consumer base. Many many other issues/bugs I didnt list. Perhaps I'll add more tomorrow. If everyone wants.

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