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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it's available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

An RSS reader (I use Miniflux), ended up being extremely useful

  • Almost every piece of software worth selfhosting has an RSS feed for updates (e.g., every GitHub releases page has an RSS feed). I started selfhosting a good deal more after setting up Miniflux.
  • Like omg there is this whole internet out there outside of Reddit/Twitter/etc that does RSS. The vast majority of blogs have RSS (e.g., Wordpress and Substack). I wish I had discovered RSS decades ago, so many websites I've forgotten because I would check updates manually and eventually just forget. I even host a personal Nitter instance so I can follow Twitter people in Miniflux.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

for better or worse it is, (though I don't recommend newcomers to boot up a bind server to manage their dns, pihole is probally the best starting point)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed, dnsmasq would be much easier to handle than BIND OOTB. I have personally not come across a reason to use BIND for myself, and struggle to see its appeal out of the enterprise/enterprise-like labs, but I don't really know much about homelabbing either

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PiHole!

One of the easiest installer I've ever seen. Significantly less ads to be shown especially one on non-browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This was my gateway into the selfhosting world. I don't think I would've kept going if it didn't make such drastic difference to my browsing experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Running a Tor exit node could certainly be life changing. Not sure in a good way, guess it depends which country you live in.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Vaultwarden is pretty game changing. No more reusing passwords and they aren't in the cloud.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nextcloud to replace Google drive/docs. Jellyfin or plex for media. The arrs to aquire media (if you have the patience). A blog? A game server to play with friends.

I suggest using docker and docker-compose as it makes everything way easier. It does still take time and it can be frustrating but it is very rewarding.

Crosspost from the duplicate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Docker is definitely worth the time investment.

If OP wants to go one level deeper: Ansible.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly Plex/Emby/Jellyfin whichever you prefer is a gamechanger because if you have a large library of content then it just cuts the cord from the subscription services.

I've always been happy to pay for them until I went on holiday last January and realised that none of my services were working due to going to a country that was out of the way and the only way to access them was to use a VPN.

So having my own Netflix is a great thing.

Tailscale while doing the above is also really cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep. 100% agree. I have a 175TB server. Sure it was expensive to set up initially, but I have all shows and movies I want, always. From all the different services I would have to subscribe to, I imagine I have recovered my initial outlay and I never have to worry about media being removed from the service or it going out of business.

I have things that aren't even available if I wanted to subscribe. Best thing you can do for yourself.

No commercials, always high quality. Available anywhere, at any time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really hope you have that backed up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He/she probably has all his/her movies backed up in the internet ;)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Home Assistant. It's a rabbit hole, but it's great. I've got motion enabled lights, thermostats for "dumb" heaters, and I track device usage (tablet, xbox) of my kids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And it's so nice having zero dependence on the cloud. If the internet drops out, everything still works, including the mobile app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Not necessarily, I have devices that are cloud dependent. Locally in NZ there aren't a lot of options, all smart plugs are cloud dependent. Also things like weather integrations will stop working.

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