Topic per title, basically.
For me: after setting up all the integrations and fall overs using the arr stack and Jellyfin (inc Sabnzdb etc)… I keep circling back to Nova video player.
https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/releases
It’s arguably not even self hosting…but there something undeniably cool about sticking a USB stick into a router, installing a single app on your TV and boom, done. EDIT: of course, it can consume the *arr stack, integrate with Ombi etc
IOW, I really like stuff that simple to set up and punches above its weight class.
Just gonna say it.
Stash. Is a great FOSS media management platform for primarily adult content.
It’s kinda good the scratch hdd I was using for stash died. I was getting a little too into curating that library and it was changing my relationship with adult content.
10/10 app though, would recommend
Yeah you can really go overboard i suppose. But i also dontl like scrolling and looking for stuff. So just having some local stuff helps me to not interact with all those sites. Esp these days with bans and vpn bans and tracking and whatnot
Several things. Mosquitto to control an ecosystem of LEGO models, some CALDAV syncer, and a mediawiki engine for D&D worldbuilding.
Yeah like the other guy I couldn’t find anything on this Mosquitto either. I’m curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)
Mosquitto is a MQTT broker.
control an ecosystem of LEGO models
Please elaborate.
Short version: modified MILS plates carry 12V power across the whole layout. Inside those MILS plates is enough space to hide a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which controls lights and motors on this plate. It communicates with the Mosquitto broker to coordinate actions, e.g light effects.
Selfhosting Lemmy has been surprisingly nice
Does it have any particular benefits over using a random public instance? All I’ve heard is mostly needing heaps of bandwidth and storage.
Since I already host a bunch of stuff, it hasn’t been a big burden for me. I get to laugh any time one of the popular instances goes down or has some admin/mod controversy, but the tradeoff is I have to manually subscribe to everything since I don’t have an “All”.
I mostly did it because this is the only way to truly own your lemmy identity. I hope one day it will be possible to link accounts on different instances together so that migrating doesn’t lose your history.
That’s a good point… was just looking into how I’d go about backing up my post+comment history and the only answer is basically “you need to use a special tool that pretends to be a lemmy client and fetches your history item by item”. I guess “host your own instance and migrate to that” is another one.
Which is surprisingly silly for what was supposed to be a more open platform than others. Heck, I can submit a GDPR request to Reddit and get a full dump of my account within the hour.
Email’s probably the most satisfying. I learnt a lot in setting up my own email server, and it’s nice being in complete control (well, of my end of things at least, ofc not of the other person’s end) of such an essential service.
Damn, never heard anyone enjoy hosting e-mail servers
that’s crazy though
Tbh was quite painless for me! Had a few hiccups but it was educational to troubleshoot them, and once it’s up and running, I haven’t had to touch it for the most part. Had to update my Dovecot configs when they changed the config syntax but that’s all I can think of. And will probably see about switching from spamassassin to rspamd because I swear spamassassin has so many false positives no matter how many false positives I feed to it to train it. But it’s really not so bad, and I would recommend it as a decent learning opportunity for folks who like tinkering with computers.
There are some decent packages out there like MailCow, Mailu, there’s another one for Docker, but it escapes me. I’ve tried, and failed. From what I understand, it takes a level of dedication.
If I had to only pick one that is by far Home Assistant.
I love Immich. I’ve pulled in all my photos going back to high school in the early 2000s and it’s so awesome having a timeline of them.
I love Immich for the fact that since I cannot hold peoples name in memory for more than a minutes, and I meet a lot of new people, so being able to take a photo and save their name is big for me.
Helps me when I study people’s names periodically too
Big fan of Immich.
I have a couple thousand photos that were taken since around time When blackberry was big and before. Older family photos I’ve scanned. Home videos from vcr tapes. Stuff I wouldn’t want to use up my space on cloud drives but it’s sooo nice having them in Immich and organized.
I have local backups and offsite backup btw, and redundancy in the server itself. But Immich is great. Paid supporter.
Navidrome for me. I have a physical collection of around 2000 albums across CD, vinyl, and cassette, plus a lot of digitally only purchases over the years. Finally getting it all on my own server and being able to just tap a button to shuffle the entire collection is just about everything I ever wanted.
May I ask why Navidrome over Jellyfin or Plex? I’ve been considering it, but I have no good reason to switch if it’s working right now the way it is.
Mostly because I’m a lot pickier about my music collection than video. There is no chance of Navidrome overwriting my tags. It just doesn’t have the ability.
With a large collection (getting up toward 28,000 tracks), I also wanted to make sure that whatever I was using had a comfortable, music first interface. Jellyfin felt cumbersome in contrast to Navidrome.
Plex. Right now we’re on vacation and can chill out with our current shows before bedtime, watching on the TV of the relative hosting us. No fuss. Aside from Movies and TV Series it also holds my music collection, Plexamp is awesome.
I’ve not gotten very deep into selfhosting due to priorities and time but I look forward to trying Immich as well as Home Assistant in the future.
I run many of the usual suspects, but I would say Home Assistant is on the top of the list.
- Integrates with seemingly endless smart home devices
- Make automations that make your house seem like magic
- Make it look just how you want it to
- and best of all, it costs
numerous hours of tinkeringnothing!
Hook it up to a UPS and it basically has 100% uptime regardless of internet connectivity or power. I love how resilient it is.
The only drawback is that most smart home devices aren’t on the UPS, so if power goes out, you still lose most connected devices.
Kind of. A lot of my stuff is also on battery and the security camera and router is on UPS so during a power outrage I still have access to cameras, per room sensors and all the door and lock sensors. I would say ~50% of devices are still accessible.
I still love getting messages via xmpp from friends and family using my own snikket/ejabberd instances after years of use. Calls as well.
Video conferences via jitsi meet fill my heart with joy since the covid epidemic. These are also xmpp based. It’s just a cool lightweight protocol.
You got your friends and family to switch to XMPP and Jitsi? impressive
XMPP is nice but even with all of the quality of life extensions it definitely feels clunky. I tried switching to it recently from matrix and while matrix leaves a lot to be desired I found it was more useful in its current form than XMPP.
I use a jmp.chat # w Snikket server on Cheogram. Calls handling through native dialer. Works pretty well minus kicking off group chats with mixed users.
I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32GB RAM Ynh server with planty of resources to spare. Would be nice!
I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32G
Well yunohost seems to support prosody, that should work very well. Snikket is basically just prosody with some extensions preinstalled. If you want an xmpp server on yunohost you could just install prosody or alternatively run snikket in a docker container. Prosody might even be easier to setup if you can install it via the yunohost gui.
OpenWRT, pihole, immich are among the most well-functioning powerful and clean pieces of software I have ever used. They just work.
Self hosting our budget with Actual has been a game changer for my partner and I. No other budget app really worked for us but this was super easy and the PWAs really make a difference.
Glad to hear people like it because I thought it was really cool…
…But not having that European easy bank import option and having to manually download your sheets and import them is probably why I didn’t stick to it very well…
…but then again it imported those sheets like magic so there’s that!
GoCardless or Enable Banking don’t work? I see both on the Actual Budget website. One doesnt take new customers? Weird
I’ll have to look again, I should have specified I’m in the US but it used some kinda integration that was common for EU banks but not US ones, so I had to import reports manually.
Oh, Simplefin does that. Really solid.
I had the same issue. Then I found https://sure.am/ . It has easy bank integration amongst others. Been using it for a bit now.
I looked quickly, but didn’t see an answer. Does Sure.am let you download your transactions into something like Actual or Firefly-iii or is it all within the hosted platform? I saw an option to self host, but didn’t see the integrations.
I’m trying to find something to pull into my firefly-iii instance and am currently abusing the Monarch API but it has some issues. I also wrote my own scrapers but they are fragile and I’d rather just integrate directly with plaid.
Maybe the website makes it hard to find, but it is completely self hostable. Here is their GitHub: https://github.com/we-promise/sure
Providers that are in the app are: Lunch Flow, Plaid, SimpleFIN and Enable Banking
You can also import directly raw CSV and others
The thing that really kills me with actual budget instead of firefly philosophy differences is that a “budget per month” app needs to have some flexibility with dates and categorization which I don’t find in actual budget. At the very least, setting a different “beginning of the month”.
I get paid on the 27th-30th of the month, that is my budget for the following month but according to actual budget, that is my budget for the month of money I have already spent. Likewise with bills, I transfer money to an account where all the bills automatically come out of after I get my paycheck, but those are bills coming out of the budget for the following month.
You can’t budget with money you don’t have yet… Especially for people with variable salaries (Belgium pays money for the days you bike to work, getting expenses paid back, etc…)
If I transfer my bills money on the 1st of the month (last possible day) and then before the 1st of the month the next month, then all metrics and budgeting for 2 months are fucked up and inaccurate with no way to fix it.
I switched the setting from “envelope budgeting” to “tracking budgeting” to address this. Budgeting based off what I anticipate making the following month. The Actual peeps will tell you that in envelope budgeting you should have enough money for the next month ahead of time so it’s working as designed. I get that, kinda, but tracking budgeting has just made more sense for me.
for me personally, Firefly III works much better and it works with importing from my bank
Game changer is a great way to phrase it. It’s no exaggeration to say it changed my partner and my lives. It gave us the confidence to save for and buy a house. I’ve never felt more in control of my finances before.
I’m going to have to check this out!
I was using Wealthica before they started charging and Actual Budget + Simplefin is so much better. I’m really happy all my financial info is just mine and not exposed to any other company. The expense for Simplefin is worth it and minimal.
Would you mind sharing more about your experience with Simplefin? I’ve been looking to make the jump, but I’ve read a fair amount of feedback that seems to indicate it might not be worth it given issues with instability, inconsistency syncing, etc.
It’ll be down to your bank’s rules. My main bank and brokerage work flawlessly, sync everyday. My secondary bank and Amex need to be reauthenticated every week or two. So I just update those once a month. Just go on simplefin and run the 2FA plus some waiting.
It doesn’t sync non-bank stuff, so there’s some RRSP providers I just enter manually.
For $20 cad a year its fine. I wouldn’t use it to track daily expenses unless you know everything will work. I do all my finances once a month so its fine for me.
apart from the usual suspect like, Jellyfin+Plex (still have some straggler users that need to upgrade their players for JF to work properly), Immich, nextcloud etc, I really like running Birdnet-Go. I give it my CCTV camera feeds and it uses a NN to identify birds it hears.
I get statistics about species heard around the property, charts to correlate detections to seasons and weather, and some interesting info about rarer species that I didn’t know were in my area. Every morning I check it to see if there was anything new recorded.
it doesn’t really have a purpose, though the data can be submitted to larger databases, but it’s just a nice thing to have.
EDIT: Also Vaultwarden, forgot about that, super happy to be hosting my own password manager instead of trusting (and paying for) companies like Dashlane to host it like I used to.
bringing you joy is its purpose, and that is valid.
My own art gallery. Started feeling the ick about posting on social media and just moved everything to my own hand-coded home page in Lustre. Feels nice to have a little space that’s just mine.
It ain’t much, but I’m also pretty proud of my Forgejo+actions setup. Pushing a commit and seeing my services update, knowing it’s all happening on “my” (VPS, but still) infra gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling.
My own art gallery
What kind of art? Do you paint, create pottery, etc. My lady friend is a self taught painter, and does some mind blowing stuff. Hell, I can’t even put paint on a wall or draw stick figures. LOL She tells me I am biased, but I respond that I know good art when I see it. I always wanted to get into pottery. That seems like it would be super cool.
Same!! I don’t trust other sites to preserve my photography indefinitely, and definitely not in the quality I want, so I built this from scratch https://p.drkt.eu/ and it’s just sitting on a box in my living room. Feels nice to watch the traffic tick by in the logs :)
This is your photography? Man that’s good stuff. I like this one a lot. It appeals to me.. I also see you too like exploring abandoned structures.
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Game servers that my friends can enjoy
Which ones get he most play?
Whatever is the most popular at the time of the games release or update. Valheim/terraria/Minecraft/satisfactory/palworld to name a few.
