What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? (lemm.ee)

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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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[-] philpo@feddit.org 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

You have all the solutions lol

[-] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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....

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Can confirm you have a problem. I mean, you have two services to document your stuff.

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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.ca 0 points 1 month 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.works 5 points 1 month 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

[-] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Completely agree

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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 🙂

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.

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[-] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month 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.

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[-] smeg@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month 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.

[-] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 2 points 1 month ago

Mealie for recipes

[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Actual budget, nextcloud

[-] gwheel@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Legume5534@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

ever wish you could listen to an Audio book and read an ebook at the same time.

Lol no? Absolutely not.

[-] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Forgejo - git hosting
actual budget - spending tracking mostly
Vaultwarden
home assistant - still configuring

[-] ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 1 points 1 month 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.

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[-] This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Calibreweb
FreshRSS
Grampsweb
Emacs
Gitea
Stirling-PDF
Vaultwarden
Pihole
Pyload
Glances
Syncthing
Homepage
Karakeep

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[-] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] yournamehere@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month 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.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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).

[-] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There is a pinned post for this https://lemmy.world/post/60585

[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month 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

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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?

[-] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 1 month ago

Set up Overseerr.

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[-] zarenki@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Depends on what you consider self-hosted. Web applications I use over LAN include Home Assistant, NextRSS, Syncthing, cockpit-machines (VM host), and media stuff (Jellyfin, Kavita, etc). Without web UI, I also run servers for NFS, SMB, and Joplin sync. Nothing but a Wireguard VPN is public-facing; I generally only use it for SSH and file transfer but can access anything else through it.

I've had NextCloud running for a year or two but honestly don't see much point and will probably uninstall it.

I've been planning to someday also try out Immich (photo sync), Radicale (calendar), ntfy.sh, paperless-ngx, ArchiveBox (web archive), Tube Archivist (YouTube archive), and Frigate NVR.

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