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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • AdguardHome/Pi-Hole (for DNS Filter)
  • DrawIO (MS Visio equivalent)
  • Invidious (Youtube privacy frontend)
  • SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)
  • Vaultwarden (Self-hosted Bitwarden server)
  • Miniflux (RSS Reader)
  • linkWarden (Link aggregator)

Also, checkout https://selfh.st/apps/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

How safe is it to self host something that you open up to the web? I've been thinking about a keepass self host, but I need it to be accessible from anywhere... I'm just really worried what that does once you open up your local server to the world

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
  • SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)

SearXNG is more than just a front end for google search, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yacy is a web crawler/search engine that IIRC you can self host and use as a SearXNG backend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's correct. Thanks for the correction.

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

I'm no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn't actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you're the only one using it, that's just tracking you with extra steps.

Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn't tracking you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless you are routing traffic through a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just recently started routing mine through a gluetun container, but now I'm hitting timeouts pretty consistently. Not sure if there's a solution to that or just deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

For which self-hosted app? Invidious?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.