I tried to setup some kinda self hosted AI image generation last month. I didn’t know wtf I was doing and accomplished nothing. Need to give it another try.
@GaMEChld @selfhosted I kinda got this running and I’m here to tell you - unless you’re willing to babysit it through the constant changes and updates and dependency hell that creates, you might be better off just paying for api use at something like https://fal.ai
AI generation aside, not a bad list. I’d add searxng, and, opnsense/pfsense is really awesome to have with pfblocker, and then wireguard so you get all the benefits on the go.
For the lazy:
- Nextcloud
- Jellyfin
- Immich
- Vaultwarden / Bitwarden
- Uptime Kuma
- AdGuard Home
- Homepage
- Monica
- changedetection.io
Seems a decent selection.
Monica
I hate products with generic names. It makes it utterly impossible to search for.
Even if this OP post might explain it, it is still useless when taken out of context like in the esteemed comment above this one.
/rant, sorry, thank you.
Its a CRM, i agree with the gripes about the name but tbf I’m kinda surprised to see it on here? The GitHub repo seems pretty dead
I’m gonna start a company that creates cheap life saving products called “Chris”
On a slightly related note, if you ever want a blast of the past, check out the ASCII art section of chris.com
And the essential companion product, Potato.
Recently discovered changedetection.io. It nicely filled the need I had. I have it watching a few static forum posts for updates that are communicated that way.
I could never get it working right due to captchas on sites, its a beat idea though
I’m a little confused. It’s this a self hosted program? Following the link I see a monthly subscription cost.
If you don’t want to self host, they offer hosting.
Got it.
That seems pretty cool.
does this count as a spoiler?
This feels 1000% like a chatgpt prompt copy and pasted into a webpage.
Why this matters –
That’s because it is.
and it is great 👌🏻- no reason to do everything yourself when you got tools to make it easier.
edit because all the downvotes: 😅 one only mentions the slightest positive thing about AI, and you get massive downvotes. Guess it is human nature to dislike change. Reminds me of a story my grandad told me on how all the taxi “drivers” (that then rode horse and carriage) hated those awful cars. Even mentioning cars had them spitting the ground, swearing. They were surely never going to change…
I think AI is great, and I think it gives us many new ways of doing (or not doing) things. Both positive and negative. And yes I do hate the energy consumption, computer prices etc that it has caused. But this is something that will fix itself given a little time 😊
I also love when I buy something off of Etsy believe it to be hand made, and it ends up being a dropshipped piece of garbage.
Just saw this reply. I have to say that I find tools like Claude code indispensable in helping me through my workflow. I have used them enough to the point I know where I’m getting “divorced” from my thought process.
Once that happens, I feel like it no longer belongs to me. It’s someone else’s understanding of what I understood.
And that is my problem with AI generated anything. I am looking at a second-hand take of a second-hand ideation.
I don’t want to argue if AI is good or bad.
I am using social media to read stuff from other human beings. I am not dumb and I can prompt LLMs myself if I have the need to.
If what you have to say isn’t important enough to write then it definitely isn’t important enough to read.
Let Chatgpt read it for you
I’m going against the new-age tech grain with this, but… I fucking despise docker anything. I can follow directions fine, it’s the troubleshooting that takes too much time. Sure, I’ll learn it eventually, but I do IT for a living I’m not coming home to waste my nights also doing this.
I’ve setup ZimaOS as a massive NAS with Yunohost on anything web-hosted/accessible. A. It’s easier with a graphical UI on stuff that’s packaged. B. Installing, updating, and most other services are pretty well automated/packaged to work really well. C. When i have the conversations with friends who aren’t tech savvy and are overwhelmed, I want to have firsthand knowledge of easy systems that’re basic, but powerful, and will help them dip their toes in freedom.
No Proxmox, unraid, no docker stuff, no nested VMs, no more complex setups. While I can learn to troubleshoot and memorize CLI, I’m too old and busy with family and work/commute to deal with problems at home lol. Too much tinkering has poised my wife off to the point she thinks all the self hosted stuff is unreliable. So, I deploy, test, vet basic issues, and if it’s too much time or setup involved, or dependencies on other apps, I’m out!!
Too many containers, too many fragile, partial service apps that just feel incomplete. Yuno and Zima (formerly casa) are great!! Others being tested too for fun but at snails pace lol.
I had that same feeling until I actually learned it.
There’s close to no performance loss, it’s better for security, it makes it extremely easy for developers to ship something that just works, it allows easy updating, and much more.
I prefer docker over almost anything now, and it has made my life much easier.
I don’t disagree with you, but for a single server hosting multiple projects with differing system dependencies, docker is amazing. I’ve come around to using it for this practical reason.
Using docker over direct installation always feels like an unnecessary interface layer that just complicates things and introduces points of failure.
Docker makes sense for several applications, but there’s no intuition unless you’re good at memorizing commands/command lines. I can’t just open up an installer or fumble through it decently well enough to get up and running.
While a UI does add overhead, done well it’s not bad. But also, different people learn different styles, and for the extra bit of resources, I’m willing to sacrifice a few MB ram or CPU utilization for less tinker time. However, 20 years ago I didn’t mind spending that time learning stuff like that because I had a lot more time and way less commitments!
You sir, need an AI agent to maintain your self-hosting addiction and free you from the shackles of homelab responsibility. Automate the automations that maintain the automations. That’s the real endgame. /s
Hah, nice! Yeah maybe my self-hosted AI agent will “take my job” from me at home! Boom, genius
I feel you. Seems nobody want’s to understand what they’re running anymore, only throw more software at it, to patch over the issues (which also creates more issues).
Then again, the people who do want to understand their systems, are not the type to write a blog post about it.Btw, you can run ssh and Podman + LXC as unprivileged user.
Can confirm, solid list for everyone. Only uptime kuma was replaced by beszel in my setup.
I just learned about Uptime Kuma from this post and spent an hour spinning it up in a container, building my status page, and setting up monitoring for my services and game servers. It’s working great so far for me. What do you prefer about Beszel? I’m looking into it now and it looks great too
Why?
I would add searxng - a bit finnicky to set up but very powerful and customizeable.
I like the idea of SearXNG, but I don’t see why so many people like it for self hosting. You’re still querying search engines with your IP which in many self hosted cases is the same IP as the one you browse the internet with. I think SearXNG is really good if you setup a service on a server IP (like a VPS) and it gets used by multiple people, or if you tunnel it trough a VPN, but then again you could also just VPN your search engine searches.
So why do you like it? Is it for the aggregation of multiple engines? Or maybe the fact that it doesn’t link your specific browser to a search? I really wonder and am not hating.
Searxng is my most used self hosted service. It’s amazing
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
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