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tbh nextcloud barebones is great. I don't use it for a full system (as in cloud).
I use it for notes (Joplin is the app on all devices/pc) NC is just its storage/distribution location. Same thing goes with bookmarks (Floccus is the addon, available to all devices/browsers). This is what makes it great.
Next is that I have files / pics on NAS storage, but I can make "external shares" available via NC. So NC is still tiny, but I can see everything I want on my massive NAS.
Using NC properly can be a super useful tool. But there are things to avoid, unless you have huge processor and storage. For example sharing photos. There are much better options than NC offering (Librephotos).
I use LLLM on NC, (because I can) and its pretty good. more than enough for Q&A. It wouldn't beat GPT3.5 but its on par. However you suddenly need 8+GB ram and 4-8 threads to be "responsive" to one user. Fun though!
I do have docserver, fulltextsearch apps and then onlyoffice installed (as a separate VM) so I can actually edit office documents on the fly and its nice, but again I have offloaded it to another VM. so NC stays small and only has the "connector" to the onlyoffice VM.
Its worth it to me for cross platform and pc/compute devices for the bookmarks and notes alone! everything else is just sugar on top!
I'll have to look into some of those, many I haven't heard of. Currently my only other self host things are a currently broken jelly/arr setup for my jailbroken tv, a bunch of 3d printing related stuff, and home assistant for my garage, bathroom fan auto on humidity, and bird room light and curtain wake up and sleep time automation, but it's the haos method and it's out of date and need a lot of manual intervention and I'm looking into using the container option instead.
It's tough balancing work with home server management, and also needing time to repair my bikes so I can stop borrowing a car, and cooking and cleaning... Sometimes I just want things to be done for me but I know I would end up wanting to redo everything to be more in line with my preferences.