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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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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (9 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.

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which Calendar software do you use?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Glad you asked. I left that open on purpose because my server probably got hacked and I have only just reinstalled. So far I've been using DaviCAL - for many years - but I'll revise this choice. It's a little dated and quirky, and so ist PostgreSQL which it depends on.

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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago

Actual budget, nextcloud

[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] cookedslug@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week 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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[–] koala@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I self-host web apps I write myself? ¯\(ツ)

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[–] This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)
  • Calibreweb
  • FreshRSS
  • Grampsweb
  • Emacs
  • Gitea
  • Stirling-PDF
  • Vaultwarden
  • Pihole
  • Pyload
  • Glances
  • Syncthing
  • Homepage
  • Karakeep
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[–] smeg@infosec.pub 7 points 1 week 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.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

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

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Adguard

Pihole

More adblockers for the ad-blocking god!

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Baikal for calendar, todo and contact syncing

Forgejo for version control

Silverbullet for markdown notes

FreshRSS for aggregated news

Linkding for bookmarks

[–] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Artaca@lemdro.id 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  • Forgejo - git hosting
  • actual budget - spending tracking mostly
  • Vaultwarden
  • home assistant - still configuring
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[–] echutaaa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Vpn, nas, home assistant, dns, reverse proxy, adblocker, specialty controller units, misc project vms/containers.

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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

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

Are books not media?

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

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

What interface is that, it looks great!

[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week 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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[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Forgejo Jellyfin Navidrome PiHole AudioBookshelf Manyfold FoundryVTT sometimes

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)
  1. Gitlab (version control)
  2. Bookstack (wiki)
  3. Joplin (not a webapp, but sync server)
  4. Semaphore (does all of my infra updating via Ansible)
  5. 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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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

vaultwarden, ntfy

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