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Today I set up my old laptop as a Debian server, hosting Immich (for photos), Nextcloud (for files), and Radicale (for calendar). It was surprisingly easy to do so after looking at the documentation and watching a couple videos online! Tomorrow I might try hosting something like Linkwarden or Karakeep.

What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

I would like to keep my laptop confined to my local network since I don’t trust it to be secure enough against the internet.

edit: I forgot, I’m also hosting Tailscale so I can access my local network remotely!

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[–] toketin@feddit.it 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Firefly III in order to track your expenses

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[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Karakeep is fantastic, I know you mentioned it already, but I just wanted to shout it out. The AI tagging is a little gimmicky and pointless, but it's super nice to have a really searchable, automatically organized bookmark manager.

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[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

If you have a car Lubelogger is a solid maintenance tracker.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Straying away from utilities, games are always fun to host. I got started with self hosting by hosting a minecraft server, but there are plenty of options.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Why Radicale when you have a caldav-capable calendar in NC?

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

I hosted Radicale first, so already had my calendar events and such set.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want to add dockge, for making it easy to manage / update your docker containers.

https://github.com/louislam/dockge

Love it. Saves me lots of time.

[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

If you don't want a GUI, dockcheck is an easy way to update many containers at once from the CLI.

[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ipfs gateway, Tor gateway

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mozhi its searxng of translators

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I've got LibreTranslate installed so don't need another translator, but Mozhi seems pretty cool though :D

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Little subquestion how fast is your nextclous instance? Cause mine is pretty slow don't really know why

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