Self hosting our budget with Actual has been a game changer for my partner and I. No other budget app really worked for us but this was super easy and the PWAs really make a difference.

Glad to hear people like it because I thought it was really cool…

…But not having that European easy bank import option and having to manually download your sheets and import them is probably why I didn’t stick to it very well…

…but then again it imported those sheets like magic so there’s that!

I had the same issue. Then I found sure.am . It has easy bank integration amongst others. Been using it for a bit now.

I looked quickly, but didn’t see an answer. Does Sure.am let you download your transactions into something like Actual or Firefly-iii or is it all within the hosted platform? I saw an option to self host, but didn’t see the integrations.

I’m trying to find something to pull into my firefly-iii instance and am currently abusing the Monarch API but it has some issues. I also wrote my own scrapers but they are fragile and I’d rather just integrate directly with plaid.

Maybe the website makes it hard to find, but it is completely self hostable. Here is their GitHub: github.com/we-promise/sure

Providers that are in the app are: Lunch Flow, Plaid, SimpleFIN and Enable Banking

You can also import directly raw CSV and others

Since the last big update you can enable experimental support for enable banking, which support quite a lot of European banks!

Oh sorry, what I meant was there’s a standard to do that with European banks, yeah, but US banks don’t have it, so you gotta manually download and import stuff. At least that’s how it was last I checked.

Something fish, something fin? I forget what it’s called, but there was some integration I found for, like, $2/month(?) and it worked pretty well from what I remember. I think this was around 2 or 3 years ago.

Every few years, I try installing Actual Budget, and have my wife compare it to how she uses YNAB, just to see if we can finally make the switch to fully self-hosted. Plus YNAB has become obsessed with new features and new customers while ignoring many of the issues that still haunt those with legacy knowledge of the platform. All while continuing to raise the price.

SimpleFIN, I currently use it and it works well

GoCardless or Enable Banking don’t work? I see both on the Actual Budget website. One doesnt take new customers? Weird

I’ll have to looked again, I should have specified I’m in the US but it used some kinda integration that was common for EU banks but not US ones, so I had to import reports manually.

Oh, Simplefin does that. Really solid.

I was using Wealthica before they started charging and Actual Budget + Simplefin is so much better. I’m really happy all my financial info is just mine and not exposed to any other company. The expense for Simplefin is worth it and minimal.

Would you mind sharing more about your experience with Simplefin? I’ve been looking to make the jump, but I’ve read a fair amount of feedback that seems to indicate it might not be worth it given issues with instability, inconsistency syncing, etc.

It’ll be down to your bank’s rules. My main bank and brokerage work flawlessly, sync everyday. My secondary bank and Amex need to be reauthenticated every week or two. So I just update those once a month. Just go on simplefin and run the 2FA plus some waiting.

It doesn’t sync non-bank stuff, so there’s some RRSP providers I just enter manually.

For $20 cad a year its fine. I wouldn’t use it to track daily expenses unless you know everything will work. I do all my finances once a month so its fine for me.

The thing that really kills me with actual budget instead of firefly philosophy differences is that a “budget per month” app needs to have some flexibility with dates and categorization which I don’t find in actual budget. At the very least, setting a different “beginning of the month”.

I get paid on the 27th-30th of the month, that is my budget for the following month but according to actual budget, that is my budget for the month of money I have already spent. Likewise with bills, I transfer money to an account where all the bills automatically come out of after I get my paycheck, but those are bills coming out of the budget for the following month.

You can’t budget with money you don’t have yet… Especially for people with variable salaries (Belgium pays money for the days you bike to work, getting expenses paid back, etc…)

If I transfer my bills money on the 1st of the month (last possible day) and then before the 1st of the month the next month, then all metrics and budgeting for 2 months are fucked up and inaccurate with no way to fix it.

I switched the setting from “envelope budgeting” to “tracking budgeting” to address this. Budgeting based off what I anticipate making the following month. The Actual peeps will tell you that in envelope budgeting you should have enough money for the next month ahead of time so it’s working as designed. I get that, kinda, but tracking budgeting has just made more sense for me.

I also get paid near the end of the month, the way I handle it in Actual is I budget at the beginning of the month with the money I have at that point. When the salary comes in, I click on the now non-zero unbudgeted amount and select “Hold for next month”, which moves the amount to the next month for budgeting purposes (the transaction keeps the correct date). It is an extra step, but I have two jobs, both of which pay on different dates, which also vary with weekends and holidays, so I don’t think there is a better way in my case.

Actually, I just had a look at the docs and it seems the holding for next month can be toggled to be automatic. Will have to try that actualbudget.org/docs/budgeting/#automatic-holdin…

I’m going to have to check this out!

Game changer is a great way to phrase it. It’s no exaggeration to say it changed my partner and my lives. It gave us the confidence to save for and buy a house. I’ve never felt more in control of my finances before.

for me personally, Firefly III works much better and it works with importing from my bank

Mine is my Jellyfin.

With a good few plugins it’s gotten to the point now that my Jellyfin is my

Movie Shows And music service

Its been really fun to hunt for blurays of my favorite shows and take the time to rip them and get all the extras labeled.

Same goes for looking at bandcamp and buying CDs again.

I still have some media I liberate… I mean they won’t make blurays of everything sadly.

What plugins do you use? I just switched from Plex and wasn’t aware of plugins.

I use a ton but the main ones are

Airtimes (shows you when a show is airing. Useful for… Liberating…)

Lrclib lyrics. Provides LRC files for songs so you get lyrics

Opensubtitles gets you subs with options to auto download for new media

What plugins do you use?

How are you labelled extras ? By hand or with help of a plugin ?

By hand :(

Oof

This! I’ve been loving flipping through DVDs and blurays at Goodwill looking for gems to put in Jellyfin. I love that they will never go away, and I still feel a little giddy when I can watch something from the NAS in my office when I’m at someone else’s house. Today, my daughter and my niece each watched different episodes of Octonauts at the same time on different devices, and both were a thousand miles from my server. ☺️ All from a raspberry pi!

Everything, from Nextcloud to gaming servers!

apart from the usual suspect like, Jellyfin+Plex (still have some straggler users that need to upgrade their players for JF to work properly), Immich, nextcloud etc, I really like running Birdnet-Go. I give it my CCTV camera feeds and it uses a NN to identify birds it hears.

I get statistics about species heard around the property, charts to correlate detections to seasons and weather, and some interesting info about rarer species that I didn’t know were in my area. Every morning I check it to see if there was anything new recorded.

it doesn’t really have a purpose, though the data can be submitted to larger databases, but it’s just a nice thing to have.

EDIT: Also Vaultwarden, forgot about that, super happy to be hosting my own password manager instead of trusting (and paying for) companies like Dashlane to host it like I used to.

bringing you joy is its purpose, and that is valid.

I run many of the usual suspects, but I would say Home Assistant is on the top of the list.

• Integrates with seemingly endless smart home devices
• Make automations that make your house seem like magic
• Make it look just how you want it to
• and best of all, it costs numerous hours of tinkering nothing!

Hook it up to a UPS and it basically has 100% uptime regardless of internet connectivity or power. I love how resilient it is.

The only drawback is that most smart home devices aren’t on the UPS, so if power goes out, you still lose most connected devices.

Kind of. A lot of my stuff is also on battery and the security camera and router is on UPS so during a power outrage I still have access to cameras, per room sensors and all the door and lock sensors. I would say ~50% of devices are still accessible.

My list, starting with most important tools:

baïkal
immich
paperless ngx
copyparty
vaultwarden
netbox
searxng
navidrome+feishin
jellyfin
forgejo
grafana
reitti
cryptpad
bentopdf
grist
rustdesk

Big fan of baikal. Not having my contacts held hostage by big tech is so nice.

PieFed and Navidrome

Fediversing with the whole world from my own server while listening to music that no “rights holder” can revoke the license to. It’s a liberating feeling.

I don’t really have a favorite; I offer a lot of software to the public for free use. Ansible and Proxmox are really helpful for me in doing that.

Ansible Scripts: git.rollenspiel.monster/ansible-playbooks

Proxmox really helped in improving my homelab needs and I only really have about 10 apps hosted.

I didn’t expect to even need a NAS, but I can no longer live without two now. Having all my data in one place, automated backups on my secondary NAS. I found a cloud storage provider I like. Just the whole stack is wonderful and I’m never going back.

Could I ask what cloud storage you went with? Looking for recommendations for potential backups.

I discovered Tresorit and I like it so far. $150 usd a year for 1 TB. Owned by the Swiss Post of all things. I prefer state owned or non profit companies where possible as service providers.

I also wanted something GDPR compliant and outside the scope of the Cloud Act. I didn’t want my data accessible by a hostile nation.

I like their cli tools, though they are setup a bit weirdly on linux. It’s more like running binaries and scripts than installing a package. Nevertheless, it gets the job done. Upload speed isn’t amazing, but it is overseas. Took nearly 24 hours to send 100gb or something. My server handles it, so its not a concern.

I’m not sure I could recommend it as a replacement for a Google Drive since I don’t use it that way. I just turn the sync on once a week and it’ll diff what’s on my backups.

I might setup a different folder to use as a more daily cloud storage and see how that goes. There’s desktop and mobile apps.

I love Immich. I’ve pulled in all my photos going back to high school in the early 2000s and it’s so awesome having a timeline of them.

I love Immich for the fact that since I cannot hold peoples name in memory for more than a minutes, and I meet a lot of new people, so being able to take a photo and save their name is big for me.

Helps me when I study people’s names periodically too

You study people’s names?

Let me give you mine too Donald Trump

So hard to pick a favourite. I’m especially proud of having the mail server.

Mail gang in da house.

Everyone should hoat mail. These corps started there for a reason. Take it all back.

My favorite thing to self host is my RSS feed reader. I’m a huge fan of feedbin but I wanted to self host. I tried the usual self hosted RSS feed readers but I just prefer the way feedbin is laid out and how it works. So, I used Claude to create a self hosted clone of feedbin but with my personal modification to fit my workflow.

• Customized keyboard shortcuts for next and previous.
• I added webmention support which allows me:
  • Determine if a site supports webmentions
  • Allows me to send a webmention like
  • Allows me to send a webmention comment
• I can share and sydicate a link from my feed reader to my website
• I can save a link as a blog idea, like if I want to respond or write about a topic for example.
• Custom filters so I can basically mute certain keywords from me feed.

Doesn’t feedbin have a self-hostable Docker?

I’m not sure. When I was searching around I never discovered it but that doesn’t mean much.

Beszel as monitoring tool, super simple to install and it just works

Navidrome for me. I have a physical collection of around 2000 albums across CD, vinyl, and cassette, plus a lot of digitally only purchases over the years. Finally getting it all on my own server and being able to just tap a button to shuffle the entire collection is just about everything I ever wanted.

May I ask why Navidrome over Jellyfin or Plex? I’ve been considering it, but I have no good reason to switch if it’s working right now the way it is.

Mostly because I’m a lot pickier about my music collection than video. There is no chance of Navidrome overwriting my tags. It just doesn’t have the ability.

With a large collection (getting up toward 28,000 tracks), I also wanted to make sure that whatever I was using had a comfortable, music first interface. Jellyfin felt cumbersome in contrast to Navidrome.

Definitely Plex, it’s pretty much the entire reason I’m self hosting in the first place!

Haven’t watched or listened to any mainstream media in another way for years and it also gets plenty of usage from other people.

I think jellyfin is better, isn’t it?

Jellyfin struggles with remote viewing. I’m not telling my fam to install tailscale on all their devices and to switch it on when wanting to watch a show.

That’s a you/network problem not a jellyfin problem. I run it exposed via a reverse proxy the sane way I expose Plex. I’m not using their bullshit proxy.

If you truly think the average tech illiterate person (the overwhelming majority of people on this planet) is going to understand/be okay with the hoops needed to view contents of a shared jellyfin server then there’s no more conversation to be had.

With a reverse proxy there’s no need for hoops unless you add some authentication mechanism on top of that. I use reverse proxies for several things so that they flow through filtering like crowdsec or fail2ban. It just routes the single port to the device on question as is. The idea is to make it indistinguishable from a fully exposed port to the user. Just have to make sure whatever system runs the reverse proxy is secured. I always make sure that nothing significant is on the system that is exposed to the internet other than the reverse proxy server and all other ports are closed internally and externally. Ideally a device that has multiple Ethernet ports works well so you can keep an ssh port open on the internally facing ethernet port for troubleshooting. Nice if they are 2.5Gbit or 10Gbit ports, too, since they route a lot of traffic. But not needed.

How is it any different to viewing a shared Plex library to the end user?

They have a reverse proxy setup, so their family or friends would simply enter that url into a jellyfin client and sign in.

So yeah, I think an average tech illiterate person can do that

Jellyfin is free and open-source, which is why it is very popular with the lemmy crowd. But unless you value those two aspects extremely high, it’s not better.

Yeah anyone who bought a lifetime Plex pass back when it was very reasonably priced is left looking at the jellyfin/Plex debate a bit crosseyed.

If you don’t have a lifetime pass, and need to cut costs, go jellyfin. Otherwise, I choose Plex.

Lifetime plex holder here, haven’t installed plex since the third time my server shit the bed and it couldn’t recover. Jellyfin has never had an issue with hardware failures. It also doesn’t try to advertise random shit to me that I’m not interested in, so there’s that too.

Eh, I think it depends.

In terms of display and content management, even how the client apps work, I’d say Jellyfin is far, far ahead.

Plex’s only advantage (to me) would be remote access, and even then I’d say its just how accounts are handled. Which is only good when Plex auth is working properly, and an absolutely awful experience when its not.

I like having SSO in front of JF, I think its a much better experience. Now I just need to figure out how to get my kids to use SSO without a device… Which I’m leaning toward an NFC reader and a tag for each of them, maybe in a toy or something they can tap to a reader. TBD.

Yubikeys work great for me for 2FA or passwordless auth. NFC and USB interfaces. Very secure. Pretty durable, though USB-C is inherently less durable due to the size and complexity than the USB-A footprint. But I’ve never had an issue with mine in my pocket or purse right with my keys. But if you bend it while it’s inserted in something it can be an issue.

One is pre-k and the other is elementary school aged, so I think even a yubikey is going to be too much 😄

But I’ve been thinking NFC because I have a bag full of tags I can use, I’d just need a reader there

No

What’s Ombi?

It’s an interface for requesting stuff from the *arr stack.

Its a simplied front end for people to request shows / movies. Normies find Radarr / Sonarr somewhat perplexing.

github.com/Ombi-app/Ombi

Ha, been into self-hosting for several years and never heard of it. But I’ve been happy with (jelly)seerr for quite a while

This seems like a baby version of seerr.

Hubs ADHD is making mint off my noodling - modified bingie on Kodi so he can find new and interesting things on the massive file server, an internally .htaccess’d domain that holds QR codes for him to check operating instructions and guides, and HA so he can make sure he’s turned lights off and tell him when the tea is steeped.

Hubs ADHD

I think I know what ADHD is, but what is Hubs.

Husband.

OoooH! Damn DERP! Sorry about that.

Why apologise? You learned new aussie slang!

Oi! I thought it was a new app I needed to check out. LMAO! I’m not quite up to operating temperature yet.

Hubs/hubby are not aussi-exclusive.

ausclusive

Ftfy

Ok.

OpenWRT, pihole, immich are among the most well-functioning powerful and clean pieces of software I have ever used. They just work.

freshrss most recently, very no hassle and easy setup, haven’t had any issues.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System ISP Internet Service Provider MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking NAS Network-Attached Storage PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) Plex Brand of media server package SSO Single Sign-On VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging

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I host a lot of things I use daily, but as far as really enjoyable, Navidrome. Like @BruisedMoose@piefed.social, I have a large physical collection of music that dates back to 1937 starting with a song by Lucille Bogan called 'Shave ‘em Dry’ and 'Till the Cows Come Home (WARNING: Very NSFW). I’ve been collecting for decades and everything is converted out to flac and resides on a NAS. I’m a mediocre musician on my very best day, but I’ve had a life long love affair with music, so Navidrome fits right in.

Hey could you just zip up your arr stack and send it to me? I don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s just understood that it doesn’t work the way it’s advertised, but I cannot for the life of me get any one part if it to run 100% right.

TRaSH guides do a very good job explaining how to set up the file structure and configure each app. YAMS (yet another media server) is a script that automates the arr install. Looking at their docker compose file and guide could also help.

I’ve actually tried both, yams got me the furthest but none of them will move files to new, properly named folders no matter what I try.

Game servers that my friends can enjoy

Which ones get he most play?

Whatever is the most popular at the time of the games release or update. Valheim/terraria/Minecraft/satisfactory/palworld to name a few.

Ha, been into self-hosting for several years and never heard of it. But I’ve been happy with (jelly)seerr for quite a while

My own art gallery. Started feeling the ick about posting on social media and just moved everything to my own hand-coded home page in Lustre. Feels nice to have a little space that’s just mine.

It ain’t much, but I’m also pretty proud of my Forgejo+actions setup. Pushing a commit and seeing my services update, knowing it’s all happening on “my” (VPS, but still) infra gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling.

My own art gallery

What kind of art? Do you paint, create pottery, etc. My lady friend is a self taught painter, and does some mind blowing stuff. Hell, I can’t even put paint on a wall or draw stick figures. LOL She tells me I am biased, but I respond that I know good art when I see it. I always wanted to get into pottery. That seems like it would be super cool.

This is your photography? Man that’s good stuff. I like this one a lot. It appeals to me.. I also see you too like exploring abandoned structures.

I still love getting messages via xmpp from friends and family using my own snikket/ejabberd instances after years of use. Calls as well.

Video conferences via jitsi meet fill my heart with joy since the covid epidemic. These are also xmpp based. It’s just a cool lightweight protocol.

XMPP is nice but even with all of the quality of life extensions it definitely feels clunky. I tried switching to it recently from matrix and while matrix leaves a lot to be desired I found it was more useful in its current form than XMPP.

I use a jmp.chat # w Snikket server on Cheogram. Calls handling through native dialer. Works pretty well minus kicking off group chats with mixed users.

I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32GB RAM Ynh server with planty of resources to spare. Would be nice!

I wish Snikket could work on Yunohost! 😢 I have a core i5-10500T and 32G

Well yunohost seems to support prosody, that should work very well. Snikket is basically just prosody with some extensions preinstalled. If you want an xmpp server on yunohost you could just install prosody or alternatively run snikket in a docker container. Prosody might even be easier to setup if you can install it via the yunohost gui.

You got your friends and family to switch to XMPP and Jitsi? impressive

sftp, few of my friends have access to a shared directory where we upload random stuff

Man I miss the days of my friend group FTP server. I might have to look into this, but getting anyone to participate is going to be the real trick

PiHole on old laptops started the journey for me

Now I’ve got all sorts of things, most visible are Plex and Audiobookshelf. The most useful to me personally is Headscale for what at I assume are obvious reasons.

I’d like to use Matrix more but that requires some buy-in from friends.

I ostensibly use this as a means of continued education for myself, but really it’s because I enjoy using/learning about open-source software and creating my own ecosystem outside of “big tech”

I’ve got it all set up in a way that really works for me, which is all that really matters in the end.

Plex. Right now we’re on vacation and can chill out with our current shows before bedtime, watching on the TV of the relative hosting us. No fuss. Aside from Movies and TV Series it also holds my music collection, Plexamp is awesome.

I’ve not gotten very deep into selfhosting due to priorities and time but I look forward to trying Immich as well as Home Assistant in the future.

Email’s probably the most satisfying. I learnt a lot in setting up my own email server, and it’s nice being in complete control (well, of my end of things at least, ofc not of the other person’s end) of such an essential service.

Damn, never heard anyone enjoy hosting e-mail servers

that’s crazy though

There are some decent packages out there like MailCow, Mailu, there’s another one for Docker, but it escapes me. I’ve tried, and failed. From what I understand, it takes a level of dedication.

Tbh was quite painless for me! Had a few hiccups but it was educational to troubleshoot them, and once it’s up and running, I haven’t had to touch it for the most part. Had to update my Dovecot configs when they changed the config syntax but that’s all I can think of. And will probably see about switching from spamassassin to rspamd because I swear spamassassin has so many false positives no matter how many false positives I feed to it to train it. But it’s really not so bad, and I would recommend it as a decent learning opportunity for folks who like tinkering with computers.

If I had to only pick one that is by far Home Assistant.

100%. Home Assistant has proven to be incredibly useful in my house. My wife loves it for the laundry notifications, the fact that I essentially replaced Life360 with it (Traccar, really, but it ties into HA so nicely), and the automated lighting: our basement (the younger kids’ play area), and themed lighting for the outdoor lights.

We’ve been fighting tangled toilet flapper chains over the last few years. The tangled chain keeps the flapper from closing, which causes the tank to continuously run into the bowl, which causes my water bill to skyrocket if gone unnoticed (we have 5 kids, 4 toilets, and the chains get tangled no matter what I do: new chain, longer chain, shorter chain, different type of chain/string/twine, etc… I blame the hard water). I finally got fed up, so I bought and installed a zigbee water level sensor for each toilet tank, then whipped up an automation which notifies us via Android’s “alarm_stream” notification channel if a sensor has been dry for longer than a few minutes. That channel overrides DND, and I am going to add an entry to ping my HA Voice thing as well in case we don’t have our phones on us.

You should really up your game and buy some ESPs and servo motors to jiggle the toilet handles when the toilets are running.

I did, actually! Got a couple ESP32s set up for Bermuda, but I’m having a hard time figuring out how to make it…work.

Maybe use ESPHome on to run the servo back and forth a few times and have an automation in Home Assistant to trigger the servo when it detects the toilet running. The hard part would probably be getting power near the toilet and connecting the servo to the handle in some fashion.

esphome.io/components/servo/

I had the same problem with a toilet. I replaced the chain with a rod made from thick copper wire I had leftover. Works like a charm, doesn’t get jammed open anymore.

Smart.

I was going to come in and say pihole, hands down as it got me into home labbing. But then I got reading some of the responses and my thoughts changed to Home Assistant because I can automate so much. An app that I had purchased to help me stay on top of my medications decided to go subscription so I was able to use HA to set up reminders to take my drugs go off on my watch which I would turn into reminders to do so much more. Than I thought Docker, because it is so much easier to install things with docker. Than I thought OpenWRT because I now have a real firewall that I can do so much more with than my ISPs dinky little thing. I was almost ready to reply when I read your question over again and I saw you mention the *arr stack and Jellyfin, which got me thinking how much I love that. Which reminded me of someone saying immich. I have to go for some blood letting today so I keep my blood req in paperless. I self host nextcloud and that is one thing I am looking at finding alternatives to but all that being said picking one is like picking a favourite family member, sure some you may like more than others but you are never going to tell which one.

Selfhosting Lemmy has been surprisingly nice

Does it have any particular benefits over using a random public instance? All I’ve heard is mostly needing heaps of bandwidth and storage.

Since I already host a bunch of stuff, it hasn’t been a big burden for me. I get to laugh any time one of the popular instances goes down or has some admin/mod controversy, but the tradeoff is I have to manually subscribe to everything since I don’t have an “All”.

I mostly did it because this is the only way to truly own your lemmy identity. I hope one day it will be possible to link accounts on different instances together so that migrating doesn’t lose your history.

That’s a good point… was just looking into how I’d go about backing up my post+comment history and the only answer is basically “you need to use a special tool that pretends to be a lemmy client and fetches your history item by item”. I guess “host your own instance and migrate to that” is another one.

Which is surprisingly silly for what was supposed to be a more open platform than others. Heck, I can submit a GDPR request to Reddit and get a full dump of my account within the hour.

I don’t find self hosting lemmy to use much of either.

Don’t know if I can pick a favorite but I’m often the most happy when I’m actively using Homebox and LubeLogger. I track my tools with the former and track service records, parts inventory, mileage and such with the latter. If I’m using those services extensively it’s because I’m wrenching on something and adding more RockAuto magnets to my collection. Even when the circumstances suck, I genuinely enjoy an opportunity to take things apart, tinker and repair them.

No longer directly related to self hosting

I like busting out the jack and stands, reefing on a breaker bar, field repairs that succeed in getting out of a bind without waiting 2 hours for a tow bill in the hundreds of dollars, then making it home safely and doing it the right way, meticulously cleaning gasket surfaces… It’s zen for me and I don’t know why. The same reason I enjoy stripping down a firearm and cleaning it more than the day at the range leading up to that point. Or why I’ll go through the trouble of disassembling a $30 tower fan to extract every bit of dust and pet hair that has found it’s way trapped inside. I couldn’t pay someone else to do that for less than the damn thing costs… I just know that I can do it and feel compelled to. I might be an overgrown gnome.

I’ve got the family’s vehicles in LubeLogger, having become the mechanic for anything short of transmission problems or requiring welding or a machine shop. The riding mower is in there too just because. It’s never often enough and I’m tempted to find a bike or an old beater I can tune up just to have a project that doesn’t have me sitting at the keyboard.

Just gonna say it.

Stash. Is a great FOSS media management platform for primarily adult content.

github.com/stashapp/stash

It’s kinda good the scratch hdd I was using for stash died. I was getting a little too into curating that library and it was changing my relationship with adult content.

10/10 app though, would recommend

Yeah you can really go overboard i suppose. But i also dontl like scrolling and looking for stuff. So just having some local stuff helps me to not interact with all those sites. Esp these days with bans and vpn bans and tracking and whatnot

Selfhosting porn is the most neckbeard gooner thing I’ve heard of :))

It’s just a few magazines in the woods

Immich
Jellyfin
HomeAssistant
Dawarich
HortusFox

In that order.
Things like the *arrs, traefik/authelia, etc. are just a necessity and not something that gives back like the 5 mentioned at first.

what do you mean by “gives back”? To whom? For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs

I think what they mean is that things like Traefix, arr, et al are means to an end. The ideal situation is that you don’t need to touch them after they’re set up. Jellyfin, on the other hand, is something you actively sign into and use

Kind of.
To me they are more like accessories and not services I interact with (interact like homeassistant, immich, jellyfin).

Services like Traefik/Authelia are infrastructure. Needed but not required.
They are like a road. Nice to have and receive a smooth ride but driving on the bare ground is possible but uncomfortable ;)

Also answered here: lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27309703

For example, why Jellyfin over any of the *arrs

Don’t take it the wrong way, the *arrs are an awesome ecosystem and tool. Very cool integration and administration.
But I could life without or replace them. Things like Jellyfin, immich, homeassistant are more integral in the sense of usage and replacing them would be a whole ordeal I would ideally like to avoid.

gotcha, that makes total sense

Several things. Mosquitto to control an ecosystem of LEGO models, some CALDAV syncer, and a mediawiki engine for D&D worldbuilding.

control an ecosystem of LEGO models

Please elaborate.

Short version: modified MILS plates carry 12V power across the whole layout. Inside those MILS plates is enough space to hide a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which controls lights and motors on this plate. It communicates with the Mosquitto broker to coordinate actions, e.g light effects.

Yeah like the other guy I couldn’t find anything on this Mosquitto either. I’m curious! Haha. (I found some GitHub project with like zero information hah)

Mosquitto is a MQTT broker.

if hosting on a VPS counts:

• radicale (DAV)
• Gitea/Forgejo
• My websites

Jellyfin, Navidrome and Nextcloud. I use them all every day!

not sure if this is on topic, but i self-host little apps i’ve made to solve very specific issues via claude code. i also self-host some of the most popular ones like Plex, Jellyfin, Actual, TeslaMate, etc. I think my favorite is Plex, but I feel that it has been going downhill lately. i tried to play a 480p video of futurama s1e1 on my phone. Brand new phone, strong wifi - would not play smoothly. No problem on my ipad, no my problem on my laptop. And even though i have a lifetime pass, i don’t think there’s anyway to report the issue or get support - at least not that I could find. I’m thinking eventually i’ll just move everything over to Jellyfin.