Fun/interesting things to self host?

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• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Game servers are always fun! I set up a custom Minecraft modpack and have it set up on my domain. I also run an Arma 3 server, but it’s a hackjob of a self-host solution and I’m ashamed of how it works.

  To address your examples directly:

  Media server: Jellyfin, along with an *arr stack (Radarr, Sonarr, and qbittorrent and gluetun) to automate everything for you.

  Photos app: Immich is your direct Google Photos replacement. Automated uploads, object detection, facial recognition, etc, all ran locally on your machine. Just remember: you still need a proper backup!

  Recipe management: Mealie is the best I’ve used. It can import a recipe from almost any website. Very easy to cook with and follow along each step. It also lets you categorize meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), rate your meals, and randomly pick meals for you.

  Other things I have going:

  Frigate NVR - A couple PoE and wifi cameras set up around the home record everything. Frigate records and timestamps things based on the settings - A person walks up, something loud happens, etc.

  MeTube - Rip videos from almost anything. Friend sent you an Instagram video, but you don’t have Instagram? Chuck it into this and it’ll give you the video. Here’s all the websites it supports.

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  • VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Great list - saved!

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  • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My only gripe is that there isn’t a good Android app to go with it. I’d like to receive notifications on my phone, too.

    Home Assistant can do notifications for Frigate that are very similar to Ring’s notifications.

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    IDK how Frigate handles alerts, but Blue Iris will write an alert to MQTT topic if it matches object recog, and I have an app MQTT Alert that watches that and goes nuts if it comes up. The BI android app is underwhelming in its alerts.

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  • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is there documentation and stuff for an Android app to be built? I might be interested in building one.

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    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      github.com/sfortis/frigate-viewer

      This is the closest thing to an android app, but it just adds a check to see if you’re on your local network or not. Other than that, it’s just a web frontend.

      The frigate documentation also has some info about installing it as an app, but either I’m doing it wrong or it’s the equivalent of a bookmark on my homescreen.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Parties, dinners, other events.

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  • jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Orgies.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      key party

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• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Off the top of my head:

  • Paperless ( Digital filing cabinet, tagging is local LLM backed
  • Immich (Google Photos replacement)
  • Nextcloud (Replaces the rest of Google Cloud functionality)
  • LubeLogger (Vehicle maintenance logger)
  • Home Assistant (Home and other things automation)
  • Jellyfin (Primary media server)
  • Hoarder (Online bookmarking, tagging and summarizing service, Local LLM backed. I think this project has changed names)
  • Audiobookshelf ( Does what it says on the tin. Audiobook server, kinda like audible but I can actually find the books I already own. )
  • Navidrome (Not sure if I’m keeping this one. Like the features but it largely duplicates the music side of Jellyfin)
  • Minecraft Server (Again, does what it says on the tin)

  There are other services I run but those are the ones I use most often and can rattle off when I’m as tired as I am right now.

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  • async_amuro@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hoarder is now Karakeep

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  • starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I much prefer navidrome for music over jellyfin. Better presentation and usage, tracks meaningful data and displays it by default, and won’t delete your music library data if a folder gets moved. In other words jellyfin just gets rid of that data but navidrome will track missing songs and make you explicitly confirm removing them from the database.

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    • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I use FinAmp client with Jellyfin for music.

      I agree the Jellyfin interface is not well optimized for music, but FinAmp negates most of that and my phone is how I mostly listen to music anyway.

      I like Navidrone, but it’s a duplicate service that doesn’t really have a big value add over Jellyfin beyond the ability to share tracks with friends. A major feature upgrade, but not something I use terribly often.

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  • ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    +1 for Audiobookshelf, has a great android app too

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    • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And iOS app as well, though, it is in test flight

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• moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t see any mention of games so far.

  A minecraft server is always a good time with friends, and there are hundreds of other game servers you can self host.

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  • neimi@voi.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @moonpiedumplings

    I'm interested in which game servers you can host yourself...

    Can you give me a few examples or a link to a list?

    @halloween_spookster
    @homelab_de
    #homelab #selfhosting

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    • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      linuxgsm.com could interest you!

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• lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Home Assistant.

  If you want smart devices but not the data collection that goes with it, then Home Assistant is your friend. Just be forewarned that it is a seriously deep rabbit hole.

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  • weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hello from the rabbit hole. I haven’t seen the light of day in years.

    I barely know what food, water or sleep is anymore. But hey! I can turn my lights off and have them come on when sunset occurs. Or they track when I leave my apartment complex property with my cellphone so I don’t waste power and there’s no 3rd party corpo breathing down my shoulder.

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    • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I spun it up it up in may to fool around. Today I opened a brand new air purifier and imeaditley disassembled it to flash ESPHome firmware on it. It never once ran stock.

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You have to show me that truck, how you got out of your apartment while remaining in the hole. That’s some Goyo Satori stuff right there.

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    • 123@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I used them for Christmas lights with that sundown condition (+just a time trigger for off at night).

      Also came in handy for a light switch that was unfortunately on the wrong side from a table, now its just uses a motion sensor when someone walks to the kitchen and tells a third reality smart switch (screws on top of regular switch, so it works with any light type (e.g. fluorescent)) and is renter friendly.

      Bonus points for no lag at all compared to crappy cloud dependent garbage and no need for apps for each device manufacturer. Just look if it is home assistant compatible and no cloud before buying devices since it us a lot harder or impossible in some cases to de-cloud them later.

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• sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Personally:

  Nextcloud (file backup and so much more, I use it to backup files from my computer. Might explore some of the other features soon)

  Immich (image backup, I use it to back up photos from my camera + phone)

  Radicale (CalDAV + CardDAV for calendar and contacts sync)

  Forgejo (GitHub alternative, and the backend of Codeberg! I use this as a local backup to my git repos in addition with cloud backup with Codeberg. They work nice together, when you set two remotes per git repo)

  Vikunja (to-do list syncing, don’t use this anymore as I mostly use Joplin for this now)

  Joplin (Markdown editor, supports cloud sync with nextcloud, I use this for both notes and to-dos!)

  I used to run ConvertX (to convert any file type, whether it’s document, image, video, etc. Think a self-hosted CloudConvert), but I somehow messed up the user permissions and couldn’t log in (100% user error on my part), so I didn’t bother.

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Another thing, “Navidrome” is a self-hosted spotify alternative (I don’t use it, I just have the MP3s and OGGs stored locally for offline playback!)

    Jellyfin is a self-hosted netflix alternative. Where you get the media is up to you…

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I run all of this on my old laptop with Debian installed, and it works quite well!

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  • TypFaffke@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What does Radicale do that Nextcloud doesn’t with CalDAV and CardDAV?

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I set up Radicale first, and never bothered to switch. Also, something about putting all your eggs in one basket.

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Home Assistant seems like a really good option if you want smart home stuff, but I personally have a “dumb” home and not planning on getting wifi light bulbs any time soon.

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• kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Searxng. Just use a private instance.

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  • dontblink@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I couldn’t make it work whatever I did, whichever instance I used it seemed to get rate limited after a while or showing weird results…

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• vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Couple of things I have running on my phone server no one has mentioned yet.

  FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.

  Pihole is probably something you’ve heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven’t it’s a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.

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  • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How difficult is it to set up FoundryVTT? I heard they changed some things recently but I’m very out of the loop

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    • vithigar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Depends on what part of “set up” you’re referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from “here is a packaged Electron based Windows application” to “here are the node.js source files”. All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.

      Surprisingly, despite being commercial software requiring a license, the original non-obfuscated node.js source is provided.

      Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that’s going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  • For LLM hosting, ik_llama.cpp. You can really gigantic models at acceptable speeds with its hybrid CPU/GPU focus, at higher quality/speed than mainline llama.cpp, and it has several built in UIs.

  • LanguageTool, for self run grammar/spelling/style checking.

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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here is my list:
  - Open WebUI to have browser access to ollama
  - AUTOMATIC1111 Stable Diffusion Web UI to generate images
  - HomeAssistant to automate my home
  - Immich to backup pictures from family phones and computers and make them accessible like Google Photos
  - PeerTube to store and make accessible family videos
  - PieFed to access the threadyverse
  - Mastodon to do microblogging
  - Uptime Kuma to check that all my services are up and running
  - Synapse Matrix Server for Text, Video and audio chats with family and friends
  - Syncthing to share files

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FYI, A1111 is obsolete. The diffusers or comfy-based backends are way faster, richer, less buggy and support newer things.

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    • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Could you give me a link to one of them?

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    +1 for Home Assistant, though the Docker implementation doesn’t allow add-ons. That may be fine at first, but a lot of the more complicated setup requires add-ons. For me, it was worth it to just go ahead and grab an HA Green run my HA stuff.

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    • jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m still running on my raspberry pi for that reason, and for my parents we also bought a HA green.

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• JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here are some of the things I self host that I haven’t seen mentioned:

  • Continuwuity is a chat server that talks Matrix, so you can join the chat rooms of a lot of open source projects or make end to end encrypted private chats
  • Forgejo is a self-hosted code forge (github alternative) - very useful
  • FreshRSS is a good one if you like to follow blogs, newsletters or pretty much anything 'news’
  • Grafana plus VictoriaMetrics and/or Quickwit is very useful for keeping track of the health of all your services
  • Homepage is a… homepage for all your services
  • Stalwart gives you a mail server. Set it up for any other projects that need to send mail, or as a backup for your emails, contacts or calendars - it’s the easiest way to set that up self hosted. Making it suitable as your main email may need more effort (delivery).
  • Related to Continuwuity / matrix, you can set up the Matrix collection of bridges, which let you bridge Discord, WhatsApp, IRC, telegram, and more into your matrix account or chats seamlessly.
  • LMS (lightweight Media Server, not to be confused with Logitech Media Server) is an alternative to Navidrome that I find works better with my library tagging and ListenBrainz
  • Speakr - audio transcription with diarisation. Very useful if you like to record meetings.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Speakr looks amazing! Thanks

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t know about stalwart but I can personally recommend mailcow

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    • arcayne@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I used Mailcow for a while before switching to Stalwart out of curiosity. Stalwart was a bit easier to deploy and feels more polished than Mailcow, but they both get the job done.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Jellyfin and Immich, first and foremost. From there, Nextcloud, Home Assistant, RustDesk, Docmost, and Nephele.

  (Full disclosure: Nephele is my own service. I find it quite useful.)

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  • dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    RustDesk is shady Chinese software and not recommended.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Speaking of RustDesk, I think that Meshcentral is also a very good software to remotely control your devices.

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• ArchEngel@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I just found and set up Gameyfin (a play on Jellyfin). Still in the testing it out phase, but I love the idea of a collection of my friends and my DRM free games that we can all share with less reliance on big companies.

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• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Examples of the type of service I’m looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation… What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

  I use:

  • Immich for photo hosting
  • Jellyfin and navidrome for media (video and audio)
  • Calibre and calibre-web for ebooks
  • Minecraft server
  • Mealie for recipes.
  • Home assistant for automation
  • Habitica for habit forming
  • And I have fpp for my Christmas lights (the application is xlights, fpp is the server that runs the scripts)

  All of these I like.

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  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    which habitica fork are you running at home? do you have the forked android app also? with home assistant, it’s all just so slick!

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    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m running github.com/awinterstein/habitica/ and have built the android app locally to get access. I really need to update and build it again eventually.

      It’s not seamless, but it functions for the family.

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• WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Headscale with headplane UI for access across servers Openwebui for LLM stuff with tika for doc processing Nextcloud for data and such Immich(migrating away from photoprism) for better photo management and phone upload Caddy for reverse proxy

  Not used as much: Monica for contact management Mealie for its ease of importing recipes

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Watch out for Open Web UI. I’ve heard rumblings that it’s starting to enshittify.

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    • WingedObsidian@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for the heads up! I’ll keep that on my radar. It would be unfortunate if the rumbles are true

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• starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • media: jellyfin for videos, navidrome for music
  • photos: immich
  • game servers: +1 to foundryvtt if you’re into tabletop rpgs. While the core software isn’t open source, most systems are, and the pf2e system in particular is the best virtual tabletop experience you’ll have on any platform.
  • recipes: i settled on tandoor. Very much a fan of it.
  • if you’re a data nerd then chartdb for database diagraming, and cloudbeaver for database management

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  • tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tandoor: I ended up there because it has an API that I can access and cross-reference to my grocer (Kroger.com also has API) to get current pricing, calculate recipe costs, nutrient costs, or find what’s on special this week. It’s theoreticcally possible, but I haven’t sorted out how to integrate that directly into tandoor & its shopping lists.

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    • starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Nice! I haven’t dug into the API yet. The big thing for me was actually pretty small feature but tandoor let’s me scale recipes up and down on the fly with just a click of a button. I couldn’t find that in Mealie. We do a lot of home cooking for guests and large parties so being able to quickly see the portions and scale a recipe up/down saves a lot of mental math or errors.

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• Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  An open tor exit node, a proxy to a pedopornographic website, a guide to mass shootings, a wiki on how to get untraced firearms, or a Minecraft server

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would certainly be exciting to host these…

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    • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😏

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But on a more serious note, hosting things like StirlingPDF, Nextcloud, Lufi (for encrypted file uploads), or even a mailcow instance is nice

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• litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Weather station, terrestrial/satellite TV DVR (TVHeadend), Git repository (Forgejo for a nice web UI, cgit for a classic UI), DNS resolver.

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• trougnouf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  CalDAV calendar/tasks server s.a. Radicale (with Cfait as a tasks manager/client)

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• chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  AdventureLog is pretty cool. Pairs with Immich nicely too.

  Paperless NGX is awesome. Of course Immich. I also really like Firefly-iii and Home Assistant.

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• ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Home Assistant might be of interest.

  Additionally, pi hole, Immich, and things based on your hobbies might be fun. I recently started hosting a Grafana service to send my garmin data to since I like seeing my health data. I know you didn’t want grafana, but using a hobby as an example. What are some of your hobbies?

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• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself.

  Well, you kind of have to have the infrastructure to make the fun happen. Docker is probably one of the more easy to deploy from the standpoint of someone just standing up a server.

  • media server: Navidrome is what I use, but there are a plethora of choices
  • photos app: Immich is quite popular, but again there are a list of them
  • game servers: There are several that I know of like Doom , Minecraft, iirc there is a Quake server, I think you can integrate Steam. I can’t run games because of a seizure condition, but maybe others can chime in.
  • home automation: HomeAssistant, NodeRed, N8N, Ansible, just literally tons of automation

  These and thousands of other apps can be deployed via Docker. You don’t have to use docker, you can install on bare metal as well, tho containers make things neat and tidy.

  As far as ‘fun’, to me it’s all fun. I selfhost for the utility, privacy, security, and anonymity of it, the educational part of it, and because it’s fun. My version of fun is going to vary widely from yours probably, but I find learning quite fun. Sky’s the limit pretty much.

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• tux0r@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My link collector.

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• 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Your own wiki, and your own social media-type service

  I post miscellaneous notes to my social media-type service, and save lists and more organised information (including recipes) to my wiki.

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  • starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I haven’t gotten to hosting my own wiki, but i do host an internal-only personal knowledge static site built with hugo. I have it set to build the site on my server which then serves it. Very useful to have something like that or a wiki.

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    • 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I used to do it that way too, but my wife is not technically inclined, so we settled on something with a web UI for editing.
      There are a few areas where the wiki is marginally better for me, the main one being the ability to do quick edits from a smartphone.
      I do really like the simple approach with a static site builder though

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• Little8Lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe an IRC server/bouncer

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• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe not a service in the typical sense, but setting up your router+server to route your home network traffic through a VPN is a fun project.

  My router (MikroTik) supports WireGuard, so I can use it with Mullvad for the whole house—but wg is demanding and it’s a slow router, so while it can NAT at ~1Gbps, it can’t do WireGuard at more than ~90Mbps. So, I set up WireGuard/Mullvad on a little SBC with a fast processor, and have my router use that instead. Using policy based routing and/or mangling, I can have different VLANs/subnets/individual hosts selectively routed through the VPN.

  It’s a fun exercise, not sure I implemented it in a smart way, but it works :)

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• Lucki@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  docspell.org for organizing your documents using machine learning.

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• eletes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you have a Nvidia graphics card 1070 and above, then openwebui. You can selfhost your own LLM. AMD is probably supported but haven’t checked.

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• flameleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  RSSHub. Being able to get all my updates in one place changed how I view the internet for the better.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Adguard Home, with domain pointed to it and using it as Private DNS on Android. No more ads anywhere!

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