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

submitted 5 days ago by 3dmvr@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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 3 days ago (1 children)

You have all the solutions lol

[–] philpo@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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....

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 3 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.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 2 points 3 days ago

Completely agree

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.ca 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 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.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 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.ee 7 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] gwheel@lemm.ee 42 points 5 days ago (13 children)

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

[–] nrab@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

>no media servers

>mentions immich as the first one

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago

As a backup :p

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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 points 4 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 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.

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[–] ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 19 points 5 days ago (6 children)

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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[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 9 points 5 days 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.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago (15 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.

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[–] Tablaste@linux.community 3 points 4 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.

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Mealie for recipes

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[–] koala@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

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

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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 11 points 5 days ago

Actual budget, nextcloud

[–] This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days 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 4 days 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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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (3 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.

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