Recommendations for my setup?
from amon@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 18:51
https://lemmy.world/post/24883704

Let me start:

Any recommendations (software preferably)?

#selfhosted

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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 18:58 next collapse

I’m not sure you’re asking a question.

Software for what? Does this setup do what you need? Leave it alone if so.

amon@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 19:10 next collapse

Like what are the essentials you have that are very handy in any situation

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 19:11 collapse

Why even worry about that? Solve for things you need solved for. Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing for their own reasons. You’ll drive yourself crazy.

These are tools, not a lifestyle. Don’t let anyone tell you any different.

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de on 29 Jan 19:18 next collapse

You nailed it.

And if someone wants to install lots of random stuff, there's always: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 29 Jan 20:13 collapse

100%. When it comes to self-hosting, or anything really, be a minimalist. For your sake, and for the sake of whoever might need to maintain things when you’ve leave this earth.

vividspecter@lemm.ee on 30 Jan 01:07 collapse

Eh, there’s something to be said for experimental periods in my view. Sometimes you try out new programs that you wouldn’t think would be useful but end up becoming essential. And then culling mercilessly anything that turns out to be not useful, or overly complex to maintain, reducing your maintenance burden.

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca on 30 Jan 03:05 collapse

For sure, if the need calls for it, that works well.

But looking for random things to install and maintain without an actual need creates so many issues.

merthyr1831@lemmy.ml on 13 Feb 11:13 collapse

Yeah I’ve given some recommendations but it’s really good to just start small and pick up new stuff as you go, then you can identify your needs and do a big upgrade.

iii@mander.xyz on 29 Jan 19:18 next collapse

Forgot minecraft server

rimu@piefed.social on 29 Jan 20:36 next collapse

There was a really good discussion recently which will give you some ideas - see https://piefed.social/post/436507?sort=top

verstra@programming.dev on 29 Jan 20:43 next collapse

Forgejo, immich, planka, seafile

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 29 Jan 21:49 next collapse

Get a better CPU?

butter@midwest.social on 30 Jan 21:53 collapse

I mean, this is correct.

But this is a laptop. Probably just had laying around

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 30 Jan 22:53 collapse

They asked for recommendations…

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 30 Jan 07:33 next collapse

Actual budget, grist, lubelogger (if you own a vehicle). Maybe fittrackee if you do sports.

And silverbullet, indeed radicale to get rid of google contacts and calendar.

And stirlingpdf is also great…

theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz on 30 Jan 10:31 collapse

I read about silverbullet a few times now. What is your experience with it? It looks very nice but I switch note taking apps so often I don’t have time to use any of them properly.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 30 Jan 12:29 collapse

Its nice and pretty nerdy. As web based nmarkdown editor in pretty good and the extra features rocks.

It has a few quirks I don’t like though, on the self-hosted side:

  • no multi-user support.
  • auth is quirky and required a ticket to make it work at all
  • must be deployed on subdomain, which make it impossible to host multiple instances for multiple users easily

But from functionality point of view, I love it

butter@midwest.social on 30 Jan 21:54 next collapse

If you’re using qbittorrent, looking into Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr. And maybe even jellyseerr and recyclarr if you want to get into it.

merthyr1831@lemmy.ml on 13 Feb 11:06 collapse

Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr.

These services let you find, download, and manage tv shows/movies from multiple trackers. You can even start tracking a tv show that’s still running and it’ll download new seasons as and when they’re released. From there they’re forwarded to your torrent client.

It’s awesome, lets my non-technical GF add movies and tv shows without me, and means we’re up to date on severance!

I’d personally recommend a second hard drive of 500GB at least. You’ll quickly fill that 250gb drive, and it’s good practice to keep your data and applications separate (if the drive fails or gets upgraded your services won’t need to go down!). You can also set up a ZFS pool so you can add drives later into a big pool that’s treated like a single drive by your applications, though most of those services can support multiple storage locations so ZFS isnt too urgent if you expand to a new drive.

I can personally attest that the SU630 is a good SSD though. Serves my raspberry pi well! You don’t need SSDs for your bulk storage though, you won’t need the speed.