What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life?

Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 996 points – 1 years ago

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!

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Portainer - For docker containers.

AdGuard Home on 2 separate Raspberry Pi Pico W.

HomeAssistant on its own hardware. Home automation

SearXNG - private search.

Whoogle - private search.

Shaarli - Bookmarks.

youtube-dl - downloading videos.

PaperlessNGX - document storage.

Trilium Notes - notes app

These are the ones I can't live without. All docker containers running on a NAS.

Why do you need to host 2 search engines?

Indeed, well:

SearxNG is a meta search engine, can aggregate search results from a ton of other search engines (like DDG, Google, Bing, .... and a lot more)
Whoogle, looks like a proxy to Google

Because I can

First time seeing shaarli, looks similar to Linkding —something I use all the time!

Can vouch for shaarli. I use it every single day of my life

Does PaperlessNGX have an android app?

There are 2 3rd party apps on fdroid

@randomguy2323

There is #Paperless on @fdroidorg

https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.bauerj.paperless\_app/

@thanatos

Damn, I had no idea. I've been emailing stuff to myself and having it check my email to handle uploads from my phone. Cheers :D

Yes, it's even good

You mean Raspberry Pi Zero W, right?

I did, was in a rush while posting.

Just personal choice, both are similar.

Why do you need to host youtube-dl?

I guess it’s not so much “hosting” as having it on your home NAS with some scripts to backups channels and videos that you like. At least that’s what I do.

Thought I should make a point to mention youtube-dl is dead, yt-dlp is the replacement and it works great. Even has a command line flag to make its options work the same as the options in youtube-dl so it can be a drop in replacement for existing scripts.

I actually use YoutubeDL-Material Has a web interface as the wife is computer illiterate.

Sweet I’m gonna check this out! So far I’ve been doing everything from ssh terminals on my phone/laptop using some bash aliases/functions I wrote to simplify some stuff like downloading whole channels based on a json config file, downloading videos using my preferred flags, etc. I was planning to eventually build something around it, but if this meets my needs or I can modify it to do so, it would save a bunch of time.

I have multiple desktops and laptops, multiple phones and I travel a lot. So rather than having everything copied to each device, the videos are in one place accessible from any device.