One of the few times I miss Files-on-demand for Win11. Connect an Office365 library with 500 GB to my laptop with an 128 GB harddrive. Integrates with file explorer, only caches local what you open, after a while you can “free space”, meaning deleting local cache version. NextCloud has the same on Win11 because its an OS feature.

Did you over engineer? Yes! Also: this is very cool!!

For my family my setup slightly different for reasons in other comments:

• do change browsers away from Chrome or Edge
• do change search engines
• allow cookies
• drop tracking surveillance traffic at the network level with something like pihole or nextdns

To illustrate even more: I follow a Lemmy privacy “group” with an Akkoma account.

I learned a lot in these comments but in this specific context:

• a flatpak app uses a base directory (mp3 player).
• I set it to my NextCloud folder.
• Now run/usr/1000 is “filled” with all my thousands of pdf from personal archive, several times per file (because multiple flatpaks).

These don’t need decluttering I learned, but aren’t managed by package managers either.

Thanks! And I will remove it from my search index to restrain from “decluttering”. 👌👍

Thanks, this doesn’t say anything tho about 2 levels deep in bullet 10. But I get anything in run/user/1000 serves the same purpose.