I run the following:
- Beszel
- Gerbera
- Immich
- Joplin
- Pihole
- Portainer
- Radicale
- Rclone
- Rtorrent
Happy to received critique/feedback/advice on this list :P
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For the lazy:
- Nextcloud
- Jellyfin
- Immich
- Vaultwarden / Bitwarden
- Uptime Kuma
- AdGuard Home
- Homepage
- Monica
- changedetection.io
Seems a decent selection.
Monica
I hate products with generic names. It makes it utterly impossible to search for.
Even if this OP post might explain it, it is still useless when taken out of context like in the esteemed comment above this one.
/rant, sorry, thank you.
LOL. Back in the day I saw a band open for somebody and the band name was 'Bob.' Even in the early aughts searching for 'Bob' was a pointless activity. They eventually changed the name to Super Bob which is just as stupid but at least searchable.
I'm gonna start a company that creates cheap life saving products called "Chris"
On a slightly related note, if you ever want a blast of the past, check out the ASCII art section of chris.com
And the essential companion product, Potato.
Its a CRM, i agree with the gripes about the name but tbf I'm kinda surprised to see it on here? The GitHub repo seems pretty dead
Recently discovered changedetection.io. It nicely filled the need I had. I have it watching a few static forum posts for updates that are communicated that way.
Oh wow.. My 10 year old python script may be replaced now.
Edit: And I already had it starred, because it works just like my 10 year old python script.
You can go semi-advanced mode by using regex to ignore certain line changes. Some sites require you to go super-advanced mode by using playwright running in a headless-v2 container rather than just plain text mode.
It's nice being able to see the history of changes. Especially when there's multiple rapidfire changes.
Oh yea, I'm still going to try it out the next time I need to page watch.
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Opencloud instead of nextcloud
Or, just radicale and syncthing (if you don't need a webUI)
I have a working radicale lxc currently powered off because the integration is almost 100% app dependant on a Googlefied device. I can apparent just add a caldav easy as that in graphene but my wife's aosp device ala Google fi needs an app and they ask y seem to suck.
Radicale just implements CalDAV and CardDAV so use any clients you want.
I'm mostly using the Fossify from F-Droid - their calendar, contacts, all work with DAVx5 syncing to radicale and it works fine... no 3rd party tracking my dentist appointments.
I also have TrackerControl running on my phone, so I know that there's no tracking.
Syncthing isn't quite the same
I'd be more likely to use a SMB share
True... could be both... or perhaps copyparty.
I was thinking more along the colab side, where syncthing is working on your laptop and mine to sync our files, rather than central storage, but fair point.
I use owncloud
If I'm only looking for document storage and maybe a caldav (Android caldav options are rough) what would be best?
This feels 1000% like a chatgpt prompt copy and pasted into a webpage.
Yea, no links to any of the tools.
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AI generation aside, not a bad list. I'd add searxng, and, opnsense/pfsense is really awesome to have with pfblocker, and then wireguard so you get all the benefits on the go.
Sadly SearXNG is plagued by captcha limit. Nothing I tried reliable works.
Not even running your own? Once you get past the Docker config you can have your own endpoint. Mine has never had any issues. As far as I understand it looks just like you yourself using the various sourced services, which it is.
I do run it in docker. It used to work great until few months ago. Maybe my provider (Hetzner) ip triggers captcha. Tried tor proxy and it didn't make much difference. Brave, Startpage, DDG - all periodically throw captcha / too many request errors.
Yeah might be the IP range of the provide. Also sometimes it stops working till you update. But I expect the hetzner IP range has more than one self hosted instance on it so probably gets tagged for the whole range.
I would add searxng - a bit finnicky to set up but very powerful and customizeable.
I like the idea of SearXNG, but I don't see why so many people like it for self hosting. You're still querying search engines with your IP which in many self hosted cases is the same IP as the one you browse the internet with. I think SearXNG is really good if you setup a service on a server IP (like a VPS) and it gets used by multiple people, or if you tunnel it trough a VPN, but then again you could also just VPN your search engine searches.
So why do you like it? Is it for the aggregation of multiple engines? Or maybe the fact that it doesn't link your specific browser to a search? I really wonder and am not hating.
You’re still querying search engines with your IP
IP in itself might not be as much of a problem, unless you have a static IP, which most consumers don't. And even if you do, you are also hiding a lot of baggage relating to user agents or other fingerprintable settings. IP alone is rarely used as a sole point to link your traffic to other datapoints. On top of that, you can still just decide to exclude google, bing etc from your search results and rely more "open" ones like DDG or ecosia.
Another huge upside of searxng is the aggregation of results. The search results of google are all up to, well, google. Same with bing, which is controlled by microsoft. If these companies now decide to "surpress" certain information, people using only those engines directly would no longer see those news. However, if you get your results from multiple search engines, you are not - or lets say less - affected by that kind of nonsense.
As always with news and information, the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle. And that's where searxng helps out tremendously.
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I tried to setup some kinda self hosted AI image generation last month. I didn't know wtf I was doing and accomplished nothing. Need to give it another try.
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