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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.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)
  • Forgejo - git hosting
  • actual budget - spending tracking mostly
  • Vaultwarden
  • home assistant - still configuring
[–] koala@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I keep everything documented, along with my infrastructure as code stuff. Briefly:

  • Nextcloud
  • Vaultwarden
  • Miniflux
  • My blog
  • Takahe (a multi-domain) ActivityPub server
  • My health tracker CRUD data entry
  • https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/
  • Grafana (for health stats and monitoring data from Nagios)
  • Nagios
  • FreeIPA/Ipsilon (SSO)

edit: plus a few things that do not have a web UI.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • ActualBudget for finances.
  • Radicale for calendar/contacts.
  • Immich for photos/videos.
  • Redlib as a frontend for Reddit (LibRedirect ftw).
  • TheLounge as an IRC client.
  • Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as a password manager.
  • paperless-ngx for documents
[–] This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)
  • Calibreweb
  • FreshRSS
  • Grampsweb
  • Emacs
  • Gitea
  • Stirling-PDF
  • Vaultwarden
  • Pihole
  • Pyload
  • Glances
  • Syncthing
  • Homepage
  • Karakeep
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[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

All these. I just added calibre web and may phase out Kavita.

[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What interface is that, it looks great!

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

That's TrueNas. It can run docker compose files so I'm abusing the crap out of what it's supposed to do haha.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are books not media?

I was thinking through my list, and almost mentioned Calibre Web, but decided it's media related.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Eh, it's a document viewer. I figured they're referring to Plex and jellyfin when they say media.

[–] Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love that the load on all of these is 0% :D

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, just me and my family for now. I have gotten a lot of knowledge setting stuff up and hope to eventually get some VPSs set up for some public Lemmy, pixelfed, and maybe mastodon instances for digital nomads and expats.

[–] ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Mumble and Wireguard

Some of my friends are heading back to mumble because discord is getting too bloated with useless features.

Wireguard is to be able to access my local network when I am away.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Check out Tailscale. It uses Wireguard under the hood, but it's magic.

[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I hear about people wanting alternatives to discord though I never got into using it too much personally, but does anyone know about whether or not Revolt chat is a good open-source self-hostable solution?

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[–] Merlin@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I like to seed legal torrents for archival purposes. And run a comic server for syncing with my kobo ereader . Oh and rss

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (14 children)

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.

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • Wekan for Todo list /kanban.
  • GitLab for my source code and projects.
  • synapse for my own matrix server
  • mastodon for fediverse
  • mbin for fediverse
  • mumble for voip
  • nextcloud for my files, calandar and contacts
  • plantuml server
  • many self created telegram bots
  • many websites. Like blog.melroy.org, explorer.melroy.org or Libreweb.org or techwiki.org and so much more..

And then the list goes on and on. Like prometheus, grafana, uptime Kuma, mariadb, Valkey, postgresql, unbound dns, all those things..

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vaultwarden, ntfy

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 11 points 1 day ago

Actual budget, nextcloud

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] cookedslug@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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[–] smeg@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago

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.

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