Is very nice as a personal messenger for friends and family.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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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.
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Whats a good way for me to take the dive into self hosting without getting myself in trouble security wise? I would love something that is basic to build off of as I experiment with it to teach myself the more advanced stuff.
Stick to local stuff, no need to open ports at all. I got myself a Raspberry Pi and I just have it next to my router.
Once I felt like using it outside my network, instead of opening ports and doing complicated stuff that didn't work cuz I am behind a Nat, I just used Tailscale instead, it's a private VPN that is free for a limited amount of devices (like 10 or more I think so it's fine for you and family). It's the best easiest thing ever
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Joplin.
You don't strictly have to self host it but it's gotten pretty good with a WYSIWYG editor now and everything.
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Trillium notes and Bitwarden.
The note is packed with features and it can build maps from your tags aromatically. It helped me easily recall things
Bitwarden, because password need to be secured.
I don’t trust myself to not lose my entire Bitwarden vault in a house fire or failed hard drive
Try Keepass. FOSS where the passwordDB is just an encrypted file. Sync with nextcloud/syncthing for concurrency, copy off to a thumb drive for backup and drop off at a freinds house, keep on your keys, etc.
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ActualBudget. If you don't already budget, ActualBudget is a remarkably nice budgeting tool that will change your financial life for the better. actualbudget.com/
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Since no one else has mentioned it, I’ll give a shout out to Outline. Definitely on the trickier side to set up (requires three auxiliary services to be configured) but creates great looking docs that share easily, allows for collaboration and is super fast.
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If you are into RPGs Foundry VTT is a great replacement for roll 20 or any of the other virtual tabletops.
Also interested, after all the *arr apps I would say:
- EDIT: I forgot about PiHole !
- IRC bouncer - ZNC for example
- Minecraft (fabric with phosphor and sodium plugins for performance)
- Picoshare or Sharry (eikek/sharry on gh)
- Libreddit
Also a neat web tool for messing with data there is cyberchef.
Thanks to this post I realized there is really only one or two services I really use or need haha (ZNC and the other one is a web tool for a popular ttrpg ->pm).
All of this and more is inside docker containers so if you don't know that I would highly recommend it.
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SyncThing. It's the best sort of selfhosted program. You set it up once and then never think about it because it just keeps quietly doing what you wanted.
Wikis can be great if you've got a few folks that need to coordinate information.
An RSS reader/aggregator.
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So, if you don't know yet what you're doing, I wouldn't host anything critical yet, but I'm using:
And so far, very few troubles. It's a layer on top of Debian to ease self-hosting. Comes by default with email and XMPP server. You can add Nextcloud and many other services as you wish.
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