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  • I’m guessing you’re talking about the client, right? The data folder on the server shouldn’t be touched or modified, except by Nextcloud.

    Check who owns the folder. I’ll assume the folder is at ~/Nextcloud, but if it’s not, just substitute in the path to the Nextcloud folder.

    You can check who owns the folder using ls:

    ls -la ~/Nextcloud
    

    This should give you something like:

    drwx------ 10 user group    4096 2024-03-04 00:00 Nextcloud
    

    Where the word “user” is in the above example should be the name of the owner of the directory. Where the word “group” is should be the group.

    If either is root, check to make sure the Nextcloud client is not running as root (using sudo or otherwise).

    Otherwise, give yourself ownership of the directory:

    sudo chown username:username -R ~/Nextcloud
    

    Replace username with your username.


  • Mine is… eh. It’s alright. I don’t use any of the apps. Just the actual sync functionality. Sometimes when I’m moving files around there’s a problem where the entire thing just stops responding. My MediaWiki instance still works, just not Nextcloud. Not sure why this happens and not sure if it also happens to other people.

    For comparison, it is running on a Contabo VPS M


  • Think about how this would actually work. Suppose you paid some small sum for access to a piece of content.

    Fairly speaking, you should only get one chance to download it or one physical copy. That’s how it’s traditionally been. The ability to download it multiple times (which is what happens when you stream content) is a service, and it costs a lot of money.

    Streaming would therefore be pay-per-view, since you are paying for each individual copy of the data that has to be transmitted to you. It wouldn’t be fair for you to just pay once and watch once and have paid the same price as someone who paid once but watched it fifty times, thereby consuming fifty times as much server power.

    Most people would find it more convenient to pay a large sum upfront in exchange instead of going through the hassle of making dozens of micropayments.

    In order to encourage people to make those large upfront payments, content creators would probably offer deals whereby users could get unlimited streams of their content if they commit a certain amount each month. This means their revenue is predictable and the expense is also predictable for the viewer.

    Congratulations. We have invented the pricing scheme of cable television.





  • This is getting off-track again—

    Government agencies paying private companies for your information, or even just asking for it in exchange for something or nothing is legal. That’s because nothing was searched unreasonably (because consent was given by the controller of the information) nor was anything seized against the controller’s will.

    You are not in the picture. The information might be about you but you don’t control the information, the car company does. From a legal standpoint, you are irrelevant for the purposes of Amendment 4 protection.

    Amendment 4 protects the controller of the information from Government seizure but does not protect the subject of that information. Privacy laws are what are intended to protect the subjects of information. There is some overlap of course. For example, your computer has lots of information about you and what you did in the past. You would be both the subject of the information and the controller (since it’s stored on your computer).

    Please remember, I am describing what the law is, not what it should be.