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What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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There’s some cool applications here. I’ll have to give Linkding a try. My favorite that I use regularly is miniflux [0] rss reader. [0]: https://miniflux.app/

use miniflux too and like it, am annoyed a bit by postgres cluster updates however every 2 years or so.

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Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix. Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-pro…

Just make sure your host workstation has automatic security updates turned on, but otherwise yeah letting docker manage all the services is totally fine.

Yeah, I'd probably do something else "in production" but since it hasn't caused a problem in ~3 years of use, and the cost of it breaking is effectively zero because it's only for our own use, I'm just letting Docker figure it out. If it ever breaks I'll write some Systemd unit files or whatever they call them, but until then, one less thing to worry about, to back up and reconfigure on restoration, et c.

My main operation pain is ZFS. Every time I have to touch it, I'm terrified I'll destroy all my data. It's like Git. "I want to do [extremely common thing], how can I do that?" "Great, just do [list of arcane commands, zero of which obviously relate to the thing you want to do] but don't mess up the order or typo anything or your system is hosed". Yeah, super cool. Love the features, hate the UI (again, much like git)

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Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix. Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-pro…

I’ve been considering setting up plex so my mom and brother could access media. Would jellyfin be better for this?

Plex is garbage and has been circling the drain for years now.

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People really should give Caddy a try. It's a nice breath of fresh air and make you figure nginx config is such a bloat. my.domain { reverse_proxy 10.0.0.2 } is all you need to get https://my.domain running with automatic Let's Encrypt.

Caddy is great but there sadly isn't anything like nginx-proxy-manager for it. The proxy manager is actually a full little identity provider and authenticating proxy--it's very slick and perfect for simple home self-hosting scenarios with a handful of users.

Could you please go into more detail regarding "a full little identity provider and authenticating proxy"? Does nginx-proxy-manager do something like SSO?

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Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix. Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-pro…

I’ve been considering setting up plex so my mom and brother could access media. Would jellyfin be better for this?

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All running on a Lenovo ThinkCentre 9000 running unRaid (with just one drive =P):

PiHole, it's the first thing I add to every network I set up. Can't live without it.

The *arr -stack (son-, rad-, baz- etc)

Plex for media at home and on the go (Plex Pass). Maybe I'll look up Jellyfin at some point, but for now Plex is superior.

Home Assistant + zigbee2mqtt + NodeRED + n8n for home automation and other tasks.

Mosquitto + Redis for communication and database use for my own projects.

Tailscale node for accessing my home network as a bastion host.

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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- ShaarliGo [0], my own scratch to a maybe more common itch

- lighttpd webserver

- ZeroBin [1] pastebin

- Gogs [2] git hosting

- qr code generator [3] (some lines of bash)

- static ios OTA test deployments [4]

- Minecraft Server Spigot 1.16.5

- dokuwiki

[0] https://demo.mro.name/shaarligo

[1] https://github.com/elrido/ZeroBin

[2] https://gogs.io

[3] https://qr.mro.name

[4] https://codeberg.org/mro/iOS-OTA

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My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I've also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven't had to test it yet. Nextcloud - for caldav a…

Hi! I have been wondering about whether investing into home assistant would be worth it to control my media center as well. Do you happen to have handy links to any resources you found helpful?
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