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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Self-hosting is a literal addiction. lol
I started with just an invidious instance and now I have my own audiobooks app that I’m also turning into a navidrome client. Did I say jellyfin and pihole, too?

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago

It really is 😅

I never thought that I'd want to spend my Saturdays fiddling with servers, but here I am

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

If you have bought audiobooks on audible that you would like to add to your own server, I can recomment Libation or this great docker image of it that comes with vnc so you host it headlessly on your server https://hub.docker.com/r/ceramicwhite/libation

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Pihole, then Jellyfin here.

I now have way too much IT stuff on my room :D

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ha, yeah, I started on a Raspberry Pi 4 and now have spent over $2k on my server through various upgrades over the years.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Damn. That’s a lot of money. I actually didn’t spend anything on the hardware. I have a friend who gave me a dell optiplex he was about to throw away and a 2 bay Synology NAS with 8TB storage already on it when he upgraded. Been using them for 3 years now. The optiplex now runs Debian server, and the SynNAS is mounted to it as a mass storage for my stuff.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm curious, is self-hosting invidious even worth it? Youtube can still see every video you pull through, right, and now it's linked to a static ip address associated with you?

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

6€ a month for a VPS with self-hosted VPN :) I run all my self-hosted applications on my laptop but run it all through my VPS

[–] muxika@piefed.muxika.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Invidious is certainly worth it, even though you lose live feeds at the moment. You can even remove comments and trending. If you want to subscribe to a channel, you can do it without YouTube.