I run the following:
Happy to received critique/feedback/advice on this list :P
Opencloud instead of nextcloud
Or, just radicale and syncthing (if you don't need a webUI)
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 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.
I use owncloud
If I'm only looking for document storage and maybe a caldav (Android caldav options are rough) what would be best?
For the lazy:
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.
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.
This feels 1000% like a chatgpt prompt copy and pasted into a webpage.
Yea, no links to any of the tools.
That’s because it is.
and it is great 👌🏻- no reason to do everything yourself when you got tools to make it easier.
edit because all the downvotes: 😅 one only mentions the slightest positive thing about AI, and you get massive downvotes. Guess it is human nature to dislike change. Reminds me of a story my grandad told me on how all the taxi "drivers" (that then rode horse and carriage) hated those awful cars. Even mentioning cars had them spitting the ground, swearing. They were surely never going to change...
I think AI is great, and I think it gives us many new ways of doing (or not doing) things. Both positive and negative. And yes I do hate the energy consumption, computer prices etc that it has caused. But this is something that will fix itself given a little time 😊
Oh shit that edit is hilarious and you don't even see the irony in it.
This is the story of how, in the 1920s, the auto industry chased people off the streets of America — by waging a brilliant psychological campaign. So the death toll was astounding. In cities of more than 25,000 people, cars were a leading cause of death by 1925. In the 1920s alone, car drivers killed over 200,000 Americans.
over 100 years later and some communities are still fighting for policies that allow an environment that fosters connection and value of life over powerful industry lobbyists trying to take over with their products (sound familiar?). But for sure, it will just fix itself if we just give it a little more time 😘
I also love when I buy something off of Etsy believe it to be hand made, and it ends up being a dropshipped piece of garbage.
Just saw this reply. I have to say that I find tools like Claude code indispensable in helping me through my workflow. I have used them enough to the point I know where I’m getting “divorced” from my thought process.
Once that happens, I feel like it no longer belongs to me. It’s someone else’s understanding of what I understood.
And that is my problem with AI generated anything. I am looking at a second-hand take of a second-hand ideation.
I don’t want to argue if AI is good or bad.
I am using social media to read stuff from other human beings. I am not dumb and I can prompt LLMs myself if I have the need to.
If what you have to say isn't important enough to write then it definitely isn't important enough to read.
Let Chatgpt read it for you
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'm going against the new-age tech grain with this, but... I fucking despise docker anything. I can follow directions fine, it's the troubleshooting that takes too much time. Sure, I'll learn it eventually, but I do IT for a living I'm not coming home to waste my nights also doing this.
I've setup ZimaOS as a massive NAS with Yunohost on anything web-hosted/accessible. A. It's easier with a graphical UI on stuff that's packaged. B. Installing, updating, and most other services are pretty well automated/packaged to work really well. C. When i have the conversations with friends who aren't tech savvy and are overwhelmed, I want to have firsthand knowledge of easy systems that're basic, but powerful, and will help them dip their toes in freedom.
No Proxmox, unraid, no docker stuff, no nested VMs, no more complex setups. While I can learn to troubleshoot and memorize CLI, I'm too old and busy with family and work/commute to deal with problems at home lol. Too much tinkering has poised my wife off to the point she thinks all the self hosted stuff is unreliable. So, I deploy, test, vet basic issues, and if it's too much time or setup involved, or dependencies on other apps, I'm out!!
Too many containers, too many fragile, partial service apps that just feel incomplete. Yuno and Zima (formerly casa) are great!! Others being tested too for fun but at snails pace lol.
I still don't truly know how to use docker, as I use dockSTARTer on my Debian VM on Proxmox, but it runns all my services now. I tried to resist and have multiple LXCs run everything, but as my homelab grew more complex (SMB & NFS, VPN tunnels, filesharing/hardlinks, etc.) I've just given up and have most things running on the docker. With dockstarter it's enter "yes" to some terminal qs, copypaste templates into your overrides folder, and then use ds -u for update and ds -c to run everything.
I tried to use podman at first because people said it was safer and faster but... I literally couldn't figure out how to turn a pod into a service so it will autostart on system launch 😅
I had that same feeling until I actually learned it.
There's close to no performance loss, it's better for security, it makes it extremely easy for developers to ship something that just works, it allows easy updating, and much more.
I prefer docker over almost anything now, and it has made my life much easier.
my SD card in my ras pi got corrupted recently. Thankfully I had my docker directory backed up. I pulled the docker directory, docker compose up -d and within about 20 minutes (not including downloading time) I was back up and running. Docker is a godsend. all my apps were exactly as they were before the corruption.
Not sure how your docker directory and services look like but the important thing is that you use remote volumes (or backed up ones) and that you backup your compose file and mounted config files of course. But besides that it's indeed that easy.
I don't disagree with you, but for a single server hosting multiple projects with differing system dependencies, docker is amazing. I've come around to using it for this practical reason.
Using docker over direct installation always feels like an unnecessary interface layer that just complicates things and introduces points of failure.
Docker makes sense for several applications, but there's no intuition unless you're good at memorizing commands/command lines. I can't just open up an installer or fumble through it decently well enough to get up and running.
While a UI does add overhead, done well it's not bad. But also, different people learn different styles, and for the extra bit of resources, I'm willing to sacrifice a few MB ram or CPU utilization for less tinker time. However, 20 years ago I didn't mind spending that time learning stuff like that because I had a lot more time and way less commitments!
I mean you’re memorizing a GUI as well. I don’t work in this field at all but docker compose files are pretty straightforward even for me. Took like 15 minutes to figure out and now it’s much quicker to get set up than any other option.
You sir, need an AI agent to maintain your self-hosting addiction and free you from the shackles of homelab responsibility. Automate the automations that maintain the automations. That’s the real endgame. /s
Hah, nice! Yeah maybe my self-hosted AI agent will "take my job" from me at home! Boom, genius
Can confirm, solid list for everyone. Only uptime kuma was replaced by beszel in my setup.
I just learned about Uptime Kuma from this post and spent an hour spinning it up in a container, building my status page, and setting up monitoring for my services and game servers. It's working great so far for me. What do you prefer about Beszel? I'm looking into it now and it looks great too
Uptime is really good for simple uptime, no worries it gets the job done. Beszel does more metrics, like a Prometheus+Graphana combination but simpler to set up.
Why?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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