All these. I just added calibre web and may phase out Kavita.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Are books not media?
I was thinking through my list, and almost mentioned Calibre Web, but decided it's media related.
Eh, it's a document viewer. I figured they're referring to Plex and jellyfin when they say media.
I love that the load on all of these is 0% :D
Yeah, just me and my family for now. I have gotten a lot of knowledge setting stuff up and hope to eventually get some VPSs set up for some public Lemmy, pixelfed, and maybe mastodon instances for digital nomads and expats.
- Calibreweb
- FreshRSS
- Grampsweb
- Emacs
- Gitea
- Stirling-PDF
- Vaultwarden
- Pihole
- Pyload
- Glances
- Syncthing
- Homepage
- Karakeep
Web-accessible Emacs? What are you using?
You can use the Linuxserver.io VSCodium Image and replace VSCodium with Emacs in the Dockerfile.
Huh, what?
I see in your link that that image has support for KasmVNC, which is great and you could use to make Emacs work...
But the whole point of VS Code is that it can run in a browser and not use a remote desktop solution- which is always going to be a worse experience than a locally-rendered UI.
I kinda expect someone to package Emacs with a JS terminal, or with a browser-friendly frontend, but I'm always very surprised that this does not exist. (It would be pretty cool to have a Git forge that can spawn an Emacs with my configuration on a browser to edit a repository.)
Exactly, since KasmVNC can run GUI programs in the browser and the Linux server.io base image is just Debian, it was trivial to just run it with Emacs instead. I much prefer Emacs over VS Code because of Org Mode. While VS Code works well in a browser. It isn't what I wanted.
Here is where I have posted my Emacs Dockerfile. It might be a little out of date. Emacs Docker
EDIT: The Dockerfile also installs the fonts I like for Emacs along with git and hunspell.
EDIT: You could also probably achieve something similar with a Docker container run ning Apache Guacamole.
vaultwarden, ntfy
- 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
- Wekan for Todo list /kanban.
- GitLab for my source code and projects.
- synapse for my own matrix server
- mastodon for fediverse
- mbin for fediverse
- mumble for voip
- nextcloud for my files, calandar and contacts
- plantuml server
- many self created telegram bots
- many websites. Like blog.melroy.org, explorer.melroy.org or Libreweb.org or techwiki.org and so much more..
And then the list goes on and on. Like prometheus, grafana, uptime Kuma, mariadb, Valkey, postgresql, unbound dns, all those things..
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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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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.
Which Calendar software do you use?
Glad you asked. I left that open on purpose because my server probably got hacked and I have only just reinstalled. So far I've been using DaviCAL - for many years - but I'll revise this choice. It's a little dated and quirky, and so ist PostgreSQL which it depends on.
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Mealie for recipes
Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!
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Actual budget, nextcloud
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.
Was trying this, but I've had issues with the app not properly synchronizing with the server. Does that work for you and if so, what's your setup?
Was supposed to replace "Bring" and due to the issues, currently using grocy, where sync works, but is otherwise very tedious to manage inventory.
Dang sorry to hear that - I just followed the docker compose instructions and setup Caddy (which was also new to me) on my VPS and I was off the races, no issues yet.
Alright, might have to do some deeper investigation for why it's messing up. Anyhow glad to hear it does work in principle and it may be something I'm doing - thanks!
Like others have mentioned, Actual is great. Couldn’t recommend it enough for anyone looking to start budgeting. Others I run but haven’t seen mentioned yet: ChangeDetection, Adguard Home, Homepage, BambuStudio, and Statistics-for-strava
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Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.
Vpn, nas, home assistant, dns, reverse proxy, adblocker, specialty controller units, misc project vms/containers.
Forgejo Jellyfin Navidrome PiHole AudioBookshelf Manyfold FoundryVTT sometimes
Actually Budget for finances, Nextcloud for everything office and organization, Home Assistant for home automation, paperless--ngx for storing and sorting documents, freshrss for news, ntfy.sh for notifications.
i dont understand ntfy.sh
you need an app to run to get messages? which you already do with home assistant and companion app or apprise. what is the usecase for ntfy?
Whoogle, a meta-search that strips away all the nasty things from Google. Can't live without it tbh.