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What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 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 3 points 5 hours ago (1 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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours 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.

[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is pretty neat!

https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/docs/intro/what-is-this

Sounds like you need both the audio and the ebook to make it work?

I typically only have one or the other.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yes you need to provide both an Audio book and an ebook as inputs, if you only have one of these, you could try getting the other from your local library, or you could sail the seas. It's not a fool proof process, so sometimes you have to try different formats of Audio books to make it work, also depending on how beefy your computer is, it will take some time to process, 1-2 hrs for big books like Stormlight Archive on my laptop

[–] Tablaste@linux.community 2 points 11 hours 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.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 2 points 13 hours ago

Ombi for media requests.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day 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.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

To add to this, I host Confusion for image generation

[–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day 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 1 points 4 hours 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
[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours 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 5 points 21 hours 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 1 day ago (1 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

[–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.ee 4 points 15 hours 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.ee 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 1 points 4 hours 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

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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 1 day 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.

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 0 points 13 hours ago

Concur. In particular models focused on image output.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day 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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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours 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.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] dai@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

I believe that functionality exists already if you are using Plex; via RSS sync.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day 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

[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago

Foundry was the 2nd thing i started self hosting (the first being pihole). Have had it running for 5 years now.

Other than that i only recently started expanding my self hosting:

  • tandoor recipes
  • navidrome (for music, mentioning it since it isn't the typical media server recommendation)
  • personal knowledge management (pkm) static website that i build with hugo
  • umami analytics
  • Remark42 for comment system on one of my internal static websites
  • a few smaller things that i built. One is a discord bot from before i started hating discord, and then a few web apps that i haven't open sourced yet
[–] Artaca@lemdro.id 5 points 1 day 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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[–] zarenki@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago

Immich and Radicale definitely recommended. I've still got paperless-ng and plan to move to paperless-ngx as soon as I find the time. I've also got firefly-iii which is a big revolution to how I manage personal finance. Even my 17 old son has got into it ... He couldn't understand where all his hard earnings were going.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

SearXNG, Forgejo, Linkwarden, Vaultwarden, copyparty, all the Servarr apps, qBittorrent and SABnzbd for downloads, Syncthing, Mastodon, and all the various containers like databases and other tools that support the aforementioned.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Adguard

Pihole

More adblockers for the ad-blocking god!

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[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 9 points 1 day 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.

[–] gwheel@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago (14 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
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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Baikal for calendar, todo and contact syncing

Forgejo for version control

Silverbullet for markdown notes

FreshRSS for aggregated news

Linkding for bookmarks

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