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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 16 points 1 year ago

A CCTV system. That directly affects the safety of yourlifee

[–] thomas@lemmy.zell-mbc.com 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] NietzcheGuevara@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

PhotoPrism is a really big one for me. You will need some computing power and storage, but being able to run your own Google Photos is amazing. Including AI features like object and face detection (if you want).

https://www.photoprism.app/

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Lemmy is pretty fun to host. Doubly so if you host a private instance with low latency; you'd basically be defederation proof.

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[–] bunkbed@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Vaultwarden!!! There's lots of nice things that may or may not be good for you depending on your needs. But vaultwarden is straight up essential.

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[–] kittyrunningnoise@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

syncthing works on every device and substitutes for cloud storage services. pictures taken with a phone end up quickly in the shared folder on my desktop. etc.

[–] pinkolik@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm hosting syncthing on my server to sync obsidian notes between my pc and phone, even when one of the devices is offline. I find it very useful. Also, nextcloud, jellyfin, qbittorrent, monero node and netdata for monitoring my server

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Calibre docker stack; Calibre Guacamole instance, CalibreWeb, Openbooks set to save to the Calibre autoimport folder, and FBreader hooked to the OPDS endpoint for calibre. Its like having an Amazon Books ecosystem of my own.

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[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SearxNG for search: https://docs.searxng.org/

You can try it using a public instance if you like, but since installing it is easy and painless, just go for it.

[–] fuser@quex.cc 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

thanks - open source search - what a wonderful idea! Although duckduckgo is tolerable, I used google without an ad blocker a couple of days ago while setting up a new system - wow - the search results are so full of clutter and garbage that it's practically unusable. Google search was useful once - not now.

The main reason ChatGPT is popular is simply because it provides information quickly without a gazillion ads and SEO-driven click-chasing nonsense making the internet unusable. There's no "intelligence" beyond a much better and more intuitive information presentation algorithm. OpenAI is just a search-engine reinvented. We need to open source LLMs next.

[–] learningduck@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Trillium notes and Bitwarden.

The note is packed with features and it can build maps from your tags aromatically. It helped me easily recall things

Bitwarden, because password need to be secured.

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[–] smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.net 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Anyone have a solid how-to for the layman to host their own lemmy instance? I heard it improves browsing a lot.

[–] Nerd02@forum.basedcount.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ansible guide. I didn't follow this one myself but the guy who set up my instance said it was pretty easy
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

...or join a smaller instance.

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[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ActualBudget. If you don't already budget, ActualBudget is a remarkably nice budgeting tool that will change your financial life for the better. actualbudget.com/

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[–] opensourcedeeznuts@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it's available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, if you don't know yet what you're doing, I wouldn't host anything critical yet, but I'm using:

https://yunohost.org/

And so far, very few troubles. It's a layer on top of Debian to ease self-hosting. Comes by default with email and XMPP server. You can add Nextcloud and many other services as you wish.

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