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Hi there! This is a video that I made that I'm hoping can act as a beginner friendly entry level point to the world of self hosting and running a homelab. Just thought I'd share in case anyone is interested, and I hope it can be a resource to share with noobies. I don't claim to be an expert at all so I'd also love some feedback. Thanks!

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[–] amotio@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

Started my own home server about a year or so ago. Currently hosting Immich for me and my gf. Jellyfin for archiving movies shows and downloaded YT videos. Forgejo for local git where I backup my work. Homeassistant to manage lights in the appartment and some other small stuff. Linkwarden to archive important websites and links I might need in the future (docs for work, how-tos for the server itself so I dont loose all that setup kbowledge). Syncthing to sync files between multiple devices - which is awesome, easy to setup and pair folders. Seafile to share files.

It has been great, it draws around 20-30W idle.

I am currently in search for Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container - if anyone has some ideas I am all ears.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Vaultwarden is what you're looking for.

[–] DevOops@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm syncing the files from Obsidian using Syncthing as well, works fine.

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

That's the primary draw for plain text files for me!

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago

I often see LogSeq, and to a lesser extent Silver Bullet, mentioned as self-hostable alternatives to Obsidian that people actually appreciate using.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

You can selfhist bitwarden. Or use vaultwarden.

[–] freeearth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

Instead of Bitearden you can use Keepass and share db file with syncthing

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Joplin is a good Obsidian alternative.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Obsidian and Bitwarden self hosted alternative that can be run in docker container.

Well not 100% sure about Docker but Tiddlywiki is pretty easily hosted! It's got some quirks, but in the end it's just an HTML file (or slightly more complex if hosted as a website), so it should stay relevant for a long time. I enioy making notebooks with it for various things!

Nextcloud has a pretty decent passwords manager and I think firefox plugins for it. I personally use SyncThing to sync KeePass databases and use the nextcloud passwords app for low-risk things we share, like streaming service passwords. :)

[–] Frey@jlai.lu 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trilium is nice as an obsidian alternative

[–] amotio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I have tried trillium, it looks good but mi y main issue is that the notes are not plain text markdown. It using its internat l database that makes syncing to other devices with syncthing harder. But yeah, otherwise great alternative.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

I use Bitwardens self hosted option, VaultWarden, that I run in a docker. works fine. I use it with the bitwarden CLI since I'm using QuteBrowser on all my machines. I then run a weekly backup of my vaultwarden to an external ssd.

Beauty of it is that it will also work with Bitwardens extension on chrome or firefox. So if I'm on another machine and I need access to my PW's I can just install the extension, add my self-hosted vaultwarden, then remove it when i'm done.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Not sure if you already knew but Bitwarden does have a self hosted option, the docker-compose stack runs great and they have been working on a singular image that just needs a DB. It all runs great depending on what you need and supports the actual bitwarden team.