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.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago
    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.

      • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        It is allotted 16GB out of the 62GB total that the host has. Which is the amount their docs call for in a 20 RPS or 1000 user scenario. Since I am the only one doing any commits or pulls, it does fine.

        Does take its sweet time to reboot though. 😆

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.

    • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.caEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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!

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        21 days ago

        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
      • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        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.

        • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.caEnglish
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          22 days ago

          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.

          • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            22 days ago

            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.

            • treyf711@lemm.eeEnglish
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              22 days ago

              I’ll give my recommendation to local LLMs as well. I have a 1060 super that I bought years ago in 2019 and it’s just big enough to do some very basic auto completion within visual studio. I love it. I wouldn’t trust it to write an entire program on its own, but when I have hit a mental block and need a rough estimate of how to use a library or how I can arrange some code, it gives me enough inspiration to get through that hump.

              • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                22 days ago

                Ya exactly! Or just sanity checking if you understand how something works, I use it a lot for that, or trying to fill in knowledge gaps.

                Also qwen3 is out, check that out, it might fit on a 1060.

      • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        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 🙂

      • 3DMVR@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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        22 days ago

        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

        • ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.caEnglish
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          22 days ago

          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.

          • bluesheep@lemm.eeEnglish
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            22 days ago

            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!

          • 3DMVR@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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            22 days ago

            more work can get done and more work can be show in progress, its like a marginal timesaver, itll knock off 25% of a human maybe if that, not replace a whole one

            • Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              21 days ago

              If everyone on your team of 6 is 20% faster, you don’t necessarily need the 6th person. Maybe you put that towards more work, but that’s not very American, these days. Cut costs, cash out, fuck 'em

      • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        21 days ago

        LLMs are perfectly fine, and cool tech. Problem is they’re billed as being actual intelligence or things that can replace humans. Sure they mimic humans well enough, but it would take a lot more than just absorbing content to be good enough at it to replace a human, rather than just aiding them. Either the content needs to be manually processed to add social context, or new tech needs to be made that includes models for how to interpret content in every culture represented by every piece of content, including dead cultures who’s work is available to the model. Otherwise, “hallucinations” (e.g. misinterpretation and thus miscategorization of data) will make them totally unreliable without human filtering.

        That being said, there many more targeted uses of the tech that are quite good, but always with the need for a human to verify.

  • Tablaste@linux.communityEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I’m traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.

  • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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.idEnglish
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      22 days ago

      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.

      • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        22 days ago

        I just started porting a DnD Beyond campaign into it and using it to store homebrew world info for a future game, but so far it’s been basically everything I ever wanted from Roll20 or DDB, but self-hosted and they give you access to the code so you can just… Code in features you want

        Thinking about pirating the FFXIV TTRPG when someone puts it up and making it in Foundry if it’s not already done by someone smarter eventually lol

  • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
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    23 days 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.

  • sandwichsaregood@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    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.

    • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 days ago

      i dont understand ntfy.sh

      you need an app to run to get messages? which you already do with home assistant and companion app or apprise. what is the usecase for ntfy?

      • sandwichsaregood@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        21 days ago

        Home Assistant notifications and almost all other notification services on phones actually route notifications through a cloud service like Firebase because Apple and Google try to railroad apps into their platforms. Ntfy lets you actually self host notifications without a third party, but also without killing your battery.

        That’s not the main thing I care about, though. Mainly I use it as a self hosted replacement for PushBullet, to share links and files with myself across machines and do some light alerting for servers and stuff (e.g. TrueNAS errors). Some of that could he done with HA, but ntfy is just better for some other uses with stuff like its web ui.

        Plus, apart from that ntfy is really easy to integrate with other stuff, like its easy to send a notification from a shell script or web hook so you can hack it into things that don’t otherwise support notifications (there are also lots of things that support ntfy natively, e.g. the arrs).

        • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
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          21 days ago

          i cant follow your first paragraph. at all. i use companion app from fdroid withouth gsf and a selfhosted homeassistant. you could aswell connect apprise to it, you can uding telegram or whatever…all in homeassistant.

          ntfy iphone and google app from playstore do share your data, right? and you use that to share data in LAN? i am confused.

          • sandwichsaregood@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            21 days ago

            Not entirely sure about the de-google’d version of the Home Assistant companion app, but I know the regular companion app uses Firebase (and whatever the Apple equivalent is called, I forget) to deliver notifications, and it still would using Telegram as Telegram also uses Firebase. Apprise is a bit different as it can use multiple backends. Regardless, there are multiple ways to do things. Ntfy iphone and google app do not route your data through a third party server. I self host the ntfy server on my own machine and domain and my phone connects to it and receives data. It will deliver notifications wherever I am, not just in my LAN. It also provides a nice UI akin to Pushbullet I can use to send myself stuff privately.

            You can’t replicate all of what ntfy does with Home Assistant. There’s more to it than just delivering notifications, it’s the whole app frontend and persistent data etc. If it’s not clear to you what it’s for from my description you might have to go look into it yourself. Look at PushBullet, that’s most similar to what I primarily use it for.

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    23 days ago
    • 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
  • ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    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.

      • Legume5534@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 days ago

        God stop pushing tailscale. It’s just abstraction on top of wireguard. Those of us who knows how VPNs work don’t want a third party involved in our routing.

    • Donn@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I hear about people wanting alternatives to discord though I never got into using it too much personally, but does anyone know about whether or not Revolt chat is a good open-source self-hostable solution?

      • ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io
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        22 days ago

        I have tried and their documentation is too complex and incomplete for self hosting. Right now, for communication, I have mumble for VoIP and ngircd as an irc server.

        It pretty much covers 80% of discord use case. I am looking for something that support video chat/screen sharing. Synapse is honestly not bad at all. But it’s too power hungry for my liking. I wish Jitsi could have better ux for average consumer. It feels too business like.

      • bladewdr@infosec.pubEnglish
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        15 days ago

        I’ve been testing MatterMost for a few days.

        It’s closer to Slack than Discord but has most of the same features.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I used to get the light prices on my phone widget via a public api. Some years ago they closed the api and started asking for full name and id in order to get api access. So I just made a scrapper that takes the numbers I want from their website and serves an API for the widget.

      That’s the only self made app I self host, but I’m quite proud of it.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      I’m just starting to get into this myself. I made one so my family can easily check the status of my media server and send a movie, show, or music request to sonarr, radarr, and soularr(WIP) so they don’t have to bug me when they want something and it also helps them to feel they have more agency in the process. It’s pretty useful for me as well to be able to easily download things instead on the go instead of keeping a neverending list.

      What kind of apps do you write?

        • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          21 days ago

          I don’t see how that’s easier or better, but feel free to change my mind. As it is now no one needs to download a separate app or have multiple logins. They just go to the URL and there’s the status and a form to type in what they want the arrs to start searching for.

            • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              20 days ago

              Not really? To the ADHD mind trying to keep the one piece of media you’re looking for at the top of your mind while you load an app full of suggestions for other shows and movies is a nightmare, and it’s not any more convenient because you’re still going to end up searching for the media you want. The only added convenience is when you’re not looking for anything in particular and just want to see what’s out there and there’s a million better ways to do that. Factor in having to instruct everyone to download the app and create an account rather than just go to a URL you can access from any device anywhere and put in your show/movie/song and in a few minutes you have it. Overseerr doesn’t monitor my services either, or whatever else I want to do. It’s MUCH easier to maintain and more convenient for everyone. And does Overseerr even interact with Soularr or readarr? The functionality of my webapp scales exponentially, I’m not tied to what the developers of Overseerr deem functional.

              • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
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                20 days ago

                Factor in having to instruct everyone to download the app and create an account rather than just go to a URL you can access from any device anywhere and put in your show/movie/song and in a few minutes you have it.

                You don’t have to download an app for Overseerr to add things. It’s just a URL you can access from any device anywhere (assuming you’ve got a domain etc like you must for your web app) and put in your show/movie and in a few minutes you have it.

                Overseerr doesn’t monitor my services either, or whatever else I want to do.

                It does when you set it up.

                No skin off my back, don’t use it for all I care - I was just pointing out that a fantastic ready made service already exists for that.

                • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  20 days ago

                  Ah, no I appreciate the back and forth. I was looking into Overseerr once upon a time, but my Plex server is running in a Windows VM and I didn’t want to mess with Windows Docker. A python script and a few HTML files seemed much easier at the time and got the desired result. I am eventually planning to migrate the server to Linux, but haven’t had the time and energy and would have to literally schedule the downtime with my family. It still doesn’t look like Overseerr integrates with Soularr or Readarr but I’ve made a note to play around a bit with it in the future.

  • capc8m@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Whoogle, a meta-search that strips away all the nasty things from Google. Can’t live without it tbh.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    23 days ago
    • 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…

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    21 days ago
    • 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.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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        21 days ago

        It sounds like it, but there are a few things I still need to do.

        • AMP Gamemanager to get better control of the servers for the kiddos

        • Codeproject AI for better image recognition with agent dvr

        • A proper voice AI setup with HA

        • I need to get my PBX setup going again

        • I will soon clean up my media and storage solution and move to TrueNAS

        And I need to automate more. One day…

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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        15 days ago

        No,more like an “AD” replacement. Does a lot of things(DNS,DHCP,some Apps),always depends on what one needs.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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        21 days ago

        Yeah, but Netbox is really really neat to document cabeling, IPAM, the rack and does asset management as well with a plugin.

        But it’s really hard to document HOWTOs in it. And wiki.js is really a bad idea for the former.

    • 3DMVR@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      21 days ago

      I like seeing the same question pop up at least every few months to get fresh opinions, thats like 2 years old ppl could have scrapped their setup and have new ones now

  • mac@lemm.eeEnglish
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    22 days ago

    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