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Nextcloud asked in a poll at https://mastodon.social/@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz/115095096413238457 what database its users are running. Interestingly one fifth replied they don't know. Should people know better where their data is stored, or is it a good thing everything is running so smoothly people don't need to know what their software stack is built upon?

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[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Exactly. Unless you are actively doing maintenance, there is no need to remember what DB you are using. It took me 3 minutes just to remember my nextcloud setup since it's fully automated.

It's the whole point of using tiered services. You look at stuff at the layer you are on. Do you also worry about your wifi link-level retransmissions when you are running curl?

[–] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry for the newbie question, but how is your nextcloud setup automated? Is that like a compose/yaml file?

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

stares at 300 line shell script+ansible mess that updates/sets up Forgejo, Nextcloud, ghostcms

"Yes... It's automated"