Submitted 3 weeks ago by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Since selfhosted clouds seem to be the most common thing ppl host, i’m wondering what else ppl here are selfhosting. Is anyone making use of something like excalidraw in the workplace? Curious about what apps that would be useful to always access over the web that aren’t mediaservers.
Local LLMs, I’m surprised no one brought that up yet. I’ve got an old GPU in my server, and I’m running some local models with openweb-ui for use in the browser and Maid for an Android app to connect to it.
You’re a brave one admitting that on here. Don’t you know LLM’s are pure evil? You might as well be torturing children!
I think most people on here are reasonable, and I think local LLMs are reasonable.
The race to AGI and companies trying to shove “AI” into everything is kind of insane, but it’s hard to deny LLMs are useful and running them locally you dont have privacy concerns.
Ais fine as a tool, trying to replace workers and artists while blatantly ripping stuff off is annoying, it can be a timesaver or just helpful for searching through your own docs/files
The tech itself is great.
But:
I think looking through the comments on this post about AI stuff is a pretty good representation of my experience on lemmy. Definitely some opinions, but most people are pretty reasonable 🙂
LLMs are perfectly fine, and cool tech. Problem is they’re billed as being actual intelligence or things that can replace humans. Sure they mimic humans well enough, but it would take a lot more than just absorbing content to be good enough at it to replace a human, rather than just aiding them. Either the content needs to be manually processed to add social context, or new tech needs to be made that includes models for how to interpret content in every culture represented by every piece of content, including dead cultures who’s work is available to the model. Otherwise, “hallucinations” (e.g. misinterpretation and thus miscategorization of data) will make them totally unreliable without human filtering.
That being said, there many more targeted uses of the tech that are quite good, but always with the need for a human to verify.
To add to this, I host Confusion for image generation
Mealie for recipes
Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!
Mealie is what keeps me s/o tolerant of my selfhosting obsession
Stripping the dogshit ads and filler from recipes makes it worth it alone.
Everything else is also great.
Calendar and contacts (i.e. CalDAV/CardDAV). A blog. Media is just remote-mounted since all my systems are Linux.
I’m always leery of “one app for all” solutions, or in German, “eierlegende Wollmilchsau”.
Hence, no Nextcloud for me.
Currently working to move away from Nextcloud myself, it’s PHP nature causes IO storms when it tries to check if it needs to reload any code for incoming requests.
Eh, my Nextcloud LXC container idles at less than 4.5% CPU usage (“max over the week” from Proxmox). I use PostgreSQL as the backend on a separate LXC container that has some peaks of 9% CPU usage, but is normally at 5% too.
I only have two users, though. But both containers have barely IO activity.
Honestly,I think I have a problem.
You have all the solutions lol
It sounds like it, but there are a few things I still need to do.
AMP Gamemanager to get better control of the servers for the kiddos
Codeproject AI for better image recognition with agent dvr
A proper voice AI setup with HA
I need to get my PBX setup going again
Can confirm you have a problem. I mean, you have two services to document your stuff.
Yeah, but Netbox is really really neat to document cabeling, IPAM, the rack and does asset management as well with a plugin.
But it’s really hard to document HOWTOs in it. And wiki.js is really a bad idea for the former.
Is Univention essentially just an LDAP server?
No,more like an “AD” replacement. Does a lot of things(DNS,DHCP,some Apps),always depends on what one needs.
Actual budget, nextcloud
KitchenOwl is my latest addition and I am getting a lot of use out of it - s/o and I use it to share a grocery shopping list, slowly starting to add my recipes to it as well. I used to use a shared google keep list but KitchenOwl works a lot better.
Was trying this, but I’ve had issues with the app not properly synchronizing with the server. Does that work for you and if so, what’s your setup?
Was supposed to replace “Bring” and due to the issues, currently using grocy, where sync works, but is otherwise very tedious to manage inventory.
Dang sorry to hear that - I just followed the docker compose instructions and setup Caddy (which was also new to me) on my VPS and I was off the races, no issues yet.
I keep everything documented, along with my infrastructure as code stuff. Briefly:
Storyteller, ever wish you could listen to an Audio book and read an ebook at the same time.
Storyteller can combine an Audio book and and ebook to create a single ebook that can be read like a normal ebook or you can listen to it and watch the actively spoken sentences highlighted in real time like a karaoke song lyrics.
This is pretty neat!
storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/…/what-is-this
Sounds like you need both the audio and the ebook to make it work?
I typically only have one or the other.
Yes you need to provide both an Audio book and an ebook as inputs, if you only have one of these, you could try getting the other from your local library, or you could sail the seas. It’s not a fool proof process, so sometimes you have to try different formats of Audio books to make it work, also depending on how beefy your computer is, it will take some time to process, 1-2 hrs for big books like Stormlight Archive on my laptop
ever wish you could listen to an Audio book and read an ebook at the same time.
Lol no? Absolutely not.
I don’t mean actively reading and listening to the audio book, think of it like English subtitles for a English movie. You can ignore them for the most part, until you hear something you didn’t quiet catch or you were not paying attention and missed something, it’s much easier to scroll back a little and read the text to catch up rather than play the part again. Happens a lot for me when listening to audio books. And rewinding the book to catch up on the part I missed is annoying, it’s better to just quickly read the last few lines instead.
I self-host web apps I write myself? ¯\(ツ)/¯
I used to get the light prices on my phone widget via a public api. Some years ago they closed the api and started asking for full name and id in order to get api access. So I just made a scrapper that takes the numbers I want from their website and serves an API for the widget.
That’s the only self made app I self host, but I’m quite proud of it.
I’m just starting to get into this myself. I made one so my family can easily check the status of my media server and send a movie, show, or music request to sonarr, radarr, and soularr(WIP) so they don’t have to bug me when they want something and it also helps them to feel they have more agency in the process. It’s also pretty useful for me to be able to easily download things instead on the go instead of keeping a neverending list.
What kind of apps do you write?
I believe that functionality exists already if you are using Plex; via RSS sync.
I randomly think about something I want, and then usually find it here. Used to be a GitHub repo, but it got so popular and useful they got a nice site with search and all, now.
I don’t have as much running anymore outside media/games, but I do still run Stirling PDF as an Acrobat Pro alternative.
I don’t often need to mess with PDFs but man StirlingPDF is just fantastic on the odd occasion that I do.
PyLoad isn’t a container I run 24/7 because the use cases are a bit limited. Basically, if I have a large list of files that I want to pass to my NAS (perhaps a list from something like DownThemAll) that won’t complete in a short sitting, I will pass that list to PyLoad so it can just run the background.
I once downloaded about 2,000 or so office files and tools like this have let me do that automatically.
Web-accessible Emacs? What are you using?
You can use the Linuxserver.io VSCodium Image and replace VSCodium with Emacs in the Dockerfile.
Like others have mentioned, Actual is great. Couldn’t recommend it enough for anyone looking to start budgeting. Others I run but haven’t seen mentioned yet: ChangeDetection, Adguard Home, Homepage, BambuStudio, and Statistics-for-strava
Why dont they sell routers that come with adguard built in, or is that a newer thing? Well googled it after typing and it comes preinstalled on some routers now
@mikrotik@mikrotik.social routers are made in Europe and have adblock built in
If your router supports Freshtomato firmware, it also has adguard you can enable too.
Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.
Headscale Matrix server (conduwuit, soon to be tuwunel) Matrix bridges Adguard Pihole Findmydevice Redlib Linkwarden Forgejo Ntfy Molly socket Home assistant Uptime Kuma
There’s probably more that I’m forgetting lol
Adguard
Pihole
More adblockers for the ad-blocking god!
Lol, when I moved the most recent pihole version had just got released so I wanted to check it out. I have pihole service my IoT network and 3 adguard->unbound instances setup for my main network for fallbacks 🤣.
You can selfhost find my device? Do you have a link to that project?
Yep you can self-host findmydevice anywhere. Personally, I deployed it on fly.io as I don’t expose my local network to the internet for security reasons
+1 For hass.
@3dmvr @selfhosted I'd say DNS server is the most important self hosted server I have.
Foundry VTT (I know it’s technically for a game but it’s technically a virtual tabletop and not a game itself)
AI Chatbots for tech support
I technically self-host an image generation AI through my main home PC, but that’s made less accessable and only on when I specifically demand it via ssh lol
Occasionally I’ll throw a temp website up for local events for like event schedules or whatever, an easily accessable and editable html file or whatever
I see mention of Foundry, I upvote. My friends and I have been using it for a couple years and still find new ways to be impressed by it.
I just started porting a DnD Beyond campaign into it and using it to store homebrew world info for a future game, but so far it’s been basically everything I ever wanted from Roll20 or DDB, but self-hosted and they give you access to the code so you can just… Code in features you want
Thinking about pirating the FFXIV TTRPG when someone puts it up and making it in Foundry if it’s not already done by someone smarter eventually lol
Foundry was the 2nd thing i started self hosting (the first being pihole). Have had it running for 5 years now.
Other than that i only recently started expanding my self hosting:
Baikal for calendar, todo and contact syncing.
Silverbullet for markdown notes
FreshRSS for aggregated news
still configuring In my experience, this is always the case with ha
Lol. :)
Nas, home assistant, dns, reverse proxy, adblocker, specialty controller units, misc project vms/containers.
Actually Budget for finances, Nextcloud for everything office and organization, Home Assistant for home automation, paperless–ngx for storing and sorting documents, freshrss for news, ntfy.sh for notifications.
i dont understand ntfy.sh
you need an app to run to get messages? which you already do with home assistant and companion app or apprise. what is the usecase for ntfy?
SearXNG, Forgejo, Linkwarden, Vaultwarden, copyparty, all the Servarr apps, qBittorrent and SABnzbd for downloads, Syncthing, Mastodon, and all the various containers like databases and other tools that support the aforementioned.
Been thinking about adding NextCloud mostly for the Google Docs/MS Office replacement at some point.
But honestly most of my stuff is just for me, my family prefers to to use whatever commercial thing is out there. So I tend to limit things to infrastructure type things that are of personal interest to me alone.
Are books not media?
I was thinking through my list, and almost mentioned Calibre Web, but decided it’s media related.
What interface is that, it looks great!
I love that the load on all of these is 0% :D
Forgejo Jellyfin Navidrome PiHole AudioBookshelf Manyfold FoundryVTT sometimes
Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I’m traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.
Depends on what you consider self-hosted. Web applications I use over LAN include Home Assistant, NextRSS, Syncthing, cockpit-machines (VM host), and media stuff (Jellyfin, Kavita, etc). Without web UI, I also run servers for NFS, SMB, and Joplin sync. Nothing but a Wireguard VPN is public-facing; I generally only use it for SSH and file transfer but can access anything else through it.
I’ve had NextCloud running for a year or two but honestly don’t see much point and will probably uninstall it.
I’ve been planning to someday also try out Immich (photo sync), Radicale (calendar), ntfy.sh, paperless-ngx, ArchiveBox (web archive), Tube Archivist (YouTube archive), and Frigate NVR.
Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I’ve still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I’ve also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it … He couldn’t understand where all his hard earnings were going.
vaultwarden, ntfy
Ombi for media requests.
gwheel@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
nrab@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
As a backup :p
Condiment2085@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
You made me actually check out Immich and I love the tagging feature. That makes it feel much more like a photo library and less like just a giant file storage solution that happens to store photos.
source_of_truth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Immich is really good actually. Completely replaced Google Photos for me.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Homeassistant is like shortcuts? You can have it do stuff if something else does something?
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Home assistant is lights, switches, sensors, blinds, fans, heat/cooling, and more. I have an automation that tells me 5 minutes after the wash is done so I can move laundry into the dryer, and another one that tells me if anyone left the back door open, telling me to close it. (My dog can open it from outside).
BennyInc@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Among other things, yes.
Condiment2085@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Really interested in immich and archive box!
mac@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Check out linkwarden as well