- Immich backs up photos from my phone and camera with tagging and search
- Archivebox is like a personal internet archive, I use it to save youtube videos and important memes
- Homeassistant does home automation stuff, currently I only use it to turn the speakers on/off with the tv
- Forgejo is a git host like Github, and can regularly pull external repositories to keep a personal mirror
- Actual budget is a budgeting app, nice for tracking expenses across multiple accounts
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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>no media servers
>mentions immich as the first one
As a backup :p
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- 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
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.
Interesting, this has not been my experience. Most people on here seem to treat AI as completely black and white, with zero shades of grey.
I see a mix, don't get me wrong, Lemmy is definitely opinionated lol, but I don't think it's quite black and white.
Also, generally, I'm not going to not share my thoughts or opinions because I'm afraid of people that don't understand nuance, sometimes I don't feel like dealing with it, but I'm going to share my opinion most of the time.
OP asked what you self host that isn't media, self hosted LLMs is something I find very useful and I didn't see mentioned. Home assistant, pihole, etc, all great answers... But those were already mentioned.
I still have positive upvotes on that comment, and no one has flamed me yet, but we will see.
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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
If you agree it’s a time saver, then you agree it makes workers more efficient. You now have a team of 5 doing the work of a team of 6. From a business perspective it’s idiotic to have more people than you need to, so someone would be let go from that team.
I personally don’t see any issue with this, as it’s been happening for the existence of humanity.
Tools are constantly improving that make us more efficient.
Most of people’s issue with AI is more an issue with greedy humans, and not the technology itself. Lord knows that new team of 5 is not getting the collective pay as the previous team of 6.
Nor will they get the workload of 6 people. They might for a couple of months, but at some point the KPI's will suddenly say that it's possible to squeeze out the workload of 2 more people. With maybe even 1 worker less!
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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 🙂
The tech itself is great.
But:
- Businesses push that shit where it doesn't belong
- Businesses replacing people by AI when it is objectively worst, to make a buck
- Business stealing the work of million of people to train their model
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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.
Check out Tailscale. It uses Wireguard under the hood, but it's magic.
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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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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!
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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.
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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.
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.
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
I don't have as much running anymore outside media/games, but I do still run Stirling PDF as an Acrobat Pro alternative.
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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- Calibreweb
- FreshRSS
- Grampsweb
- Emacs
- Gitea
- Stirling-PDF
- Vaultwarden
- Pihole
- Pyload
- Glances
- Syncthing
- Homepage
- Karakeep
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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.
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.
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Headscale
Matrix server (conduwuit, soon to be tuwunel)
Matrix bridges (slack, discord, whatsapp)
Adguard
Pihole
Findmydevice
Redlib
Linkwarden
Forgejo
Ntfy
Molly socket
Home assistant
Uptime Kuma
There's probably more that I'm forgetting lol
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- 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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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.
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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.
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- Matrix server
- Element web GUI
- NocoDB for various Mini databases and forms
- Joplin server
- KanBan Board
- Mealie to store recipes
- Grocy as a home ERP
- Grafana for various metrics
- Home Assistant
- NodeRed(non HA, different node)
- InfluxDB
- Zabbix for monitoring
- Vaultwarden
- etherpad
- Technitium DNS
- A NTP server
- Mesh Central
- A win11 VM with RDP
- paperless NGX
- calibre Web (or does that count as Media already)
- Agent DVR
- Spoolmann
- OrcaSlicer via Browser(linuxserver.io)
- Omada Controller
- Univention to bring everything together
- netbox to document half of the shit
- wiki.js to document the other half
Honestly,I think I have a problem.
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Vpn, nas, home assistant, dns, reverse proxy, adblocker, specialty controller units, misc project vms/containers.
- Forgejo - git hosting
- actual budget - spending tracking mostly
- Vaultwarden
- home assistant - still configuring
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- Gitlab (version control)
- Bookstack (wiki)
- Joplin (not a webapp, but sync server)
- Semaphore (does all of my infra updating via Ansible)
- Uptime-Kuma (monitoring/alerting)
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.
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Baikal for calendar, todo and contact syncing
Forgejo for version control
Silverbullet for markdown notes
FreshRSS for aggregated news
Linkding for bookmarks
Forgejo Jellyfin Navidrome PiHole AudioBookshelf Manyfold FoundryVTT sometimes
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