I didn't expect to even need a NAS, but I can no longer live without two now. Having all my data in one place, automated backups on my secondary NAS. I found a cloud storage provider I like. Just the whole stack is wonderful and I'm never going back.
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Mine is my Jellyfin.
With a good few plugins it's gotten to the point now that my Jellyfin is my
Movie Shows And music service
Its been really fun to hunt for blurays of my favorite shows and take the time to rip them and get all the extras labeled.
Same goes for looking at bandcamp and buying CDs again.
I still have some media I liberate.. I mean they won't make blurays of everything sadly.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging |
[Thread #64 for this comm, first seen 27th Jul 2026, 12:50] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]
My list, starting with most important tools:
baïkal
immich
paperless ngx
copyparty
vaultwarden
netbox
searxng
navidrome+feishin
jellyfin
forgejo
grafana
reitti
cryptpad
bentopdf
grist
rustdesk
Big fan of baikal. Not having my contacts held hostage by big tech is so nice.
Hey could you just zip up your arr stack and send it to me? I don't know if it's just me or if it's just understood that it doesn't work the way it's advertised, but I cannot for the life of me get any one part if it to run 100% right.
TRaSH guides do a very good job explaining how to set up the file structure and configure each app. YAMS (yet another media server) is a script that automates the arr install. Looking at their docker compose file and guide could also help.
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freshrss most recently, very no hassle and easy setup, haven't had any issues.
PieFed and Navidrome
Fediversing with the whole world from my own server while listening to music that no "rights holder" can revoke the license to. It's a liberating feeling.
My favorite thing to self host is my RSS feed reader. I'm a huge fan of feedbin but I wanted to self host. I tried the usual self hosted RSS feed readers but I just prefer the way feedbin is laid out and how it works. So, I used Claude to create a self hosted clone of feedbin but with my personal modification to fit my workflow.
- Customized keyboard shortcuts for next and previous.
- I added webmention support which allows me:
- Determine if a site supports webmentions
- Allows me to send a webmention like
- Allows me to send a webmention comment
- I can share and sydicate a link from my feed reader to my website
- I can save a link as a blog idea, like if I want to respond or write about a topic for example.
- Custom filters so I can basically mute certain keywords from me feed.
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I host a lot of things I use daily, but as far as really enjoyable, Navidrome. Like @BruisedMoose@piefed.social, I have a large physical collection of music that dates back to 1937 starting with a song by Lucille Bogan called 'Shave 'em Dry' and 'Till the Cows Come Home (WARNING: Very NSFW). I've been collecting for decades and everything is converted out to flac and resides on a NAS. I'm a mediocre musician on my very best day, but I've had a life long love affair with music, so Navidrome fits right in.
What's Ombi?
Its a simplied front end for people to request shows / movies. Normies find Radarr / Sonarr somewhat perplexing.
Ha, been into self-hosting for several years and never heard of it. But I've been happy with (jelly)seerr for quite a while
This seems like a baby version of seerr.
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Everything, from Nextcloud to gaming servers!
I don't really have a favorite; I offer a lot of software to the public for free use. Ansible and Proxmox are really helpful for me in doing that.
Ansible Scripts: https://git.rollenspiel.monster/ansible-playbooks
Proxmox really helped in improving my homelab needs and I only really have about 10 apps hosted.