How insulting to toddlers! Trumps not that intelligent!

Permissions were a pain to get right for my volumes and data I migrated. Other than that, It’s really not that complicated, it was just a case of covering my compose files to systemd service files and starting the update timer.

I recently moved from docker compose to podman quadlets. Took a bit of effort, but fully foss, and for me it’s set and forget. Have about 30 containers across about 12 services. Have them set to auto update and it all runs through systemd.

Honestly it all depends on what you need both now and in the future.

I’m running lots of services on a cheap mini pc I got for £80, it’s an N100 CPU, 32gb ddr4 ram, 512nvme, then has 2x8tb hdd’s and 2x2tb ssd’s which are in a raid1 area served with lvm.

Running vault warden, immich, navidrome, adguardhome, torrent setup, sterling Pdf, filebrowser, radicale, WebDAV server, searxng, syncthing. This has 4 daily users.

It’s barely under any load running all that and is silent and draws a max of 15w. I feel I could double the services if I wanted

I personally plan on building a desktop pc specifically to be my server in the next few years as an upgrade to my current setup, but won’t be for at least another 18 months as currently have no bottlenecks or issues.

Ive been trying to get rid of YouTube for over a year now, but haven’t found a solution im happy with so still sticking with revanced YouTube.

Got rid of Spotify 2 years ago and self host navidrome and it’s perfect for me. I use dsub2000 on my android and feishin on my Linux desktop pc.

I’m UK based, so fairly strict internet laws and I torrent to supplement my owned media. I don’t use flac, I’m sure if I tried I could hear the difference from 192kbit MP3, but honestly I don’t care. 192kbit or similar mp3’s are more than good enough for me.

Self hosting costs money. Hardware setup initially is expensive, both in money and time and effort. It’s only a solution if you believe there is a problem that needs fixing.

For me it’s well worth it for music. Video not so much, not yet anyway. I listen to the same songs 100s of times, but videos only once or maybe twice at most.

It’s on my mother in law’s iPhone, and connects to my server running syncthing. It’s very reliable. Been running for around 6 months with no issues. I have 4 mobile devices connecting to my server with syncthing, 3 android 1 iPhone

Mobius sync is syncthing for iPhone. It works really well.

Radicale on my server and davx5 on my android to sync contacts and calendar.

I’ve setup dufs to provide WebDAV file server, and then OpenOffice connected directly to it.

The more bare bones, simple and customisable, the better. I will compromise if the only option is an all in one, but it’s never my first choice as nothing is ever perfect.

Appreciate hearing about your experience 👍 I dont use any of those tools, but self host a complex setup, and is always good to hear how people operate and resolve issues, even if it is luck that saves the day 👍

I’ve had a domain with a dynamic up for over a year with no problems. I have a simple script that runs every 30mins to check if my IP has changed, then updates the DNS records when required.

Cool. I’ll add the android source code to the repo when I get chance 👍

Yeah, it’s entirely online only. And no e2ee, just relies on web server encryption like SSL.

The android, windows and Linux app use propriety parts, the android app is a web view app built in android studio, the Linux and windows apps are just electron apps. I have all the source code I used to build them on my pc, but I didn’t create a repo for them. go-notes is fully open source with the backend in go, the clients are just extremely basic frontends.

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Just gone and checked and all the electron apps source code is in my repo, so the Linux and windows apps you can build yourself from the code. I can upload the android code from android studio if you want as well?

I built a fully open source multi-user live collaboration notes app, self host with docker, serve at root or a subdomain, has an android, windows and Linux client app, plus the usual web UI.

https://github.com/TheFozid/go-notes

Exactly for what you want it for. I’ve been using it about 3 months. Contacts and calender. It’s a real pain to set up. Not straight forward. I didn’t a lot of time with ai as could not get my head round the guide.

no, i use archlinux on my main desktop as i use it daily and is my main workhorse. i have a laptop that rarely gets used at that has debian on. then i have a mini pc server with debian and a raspberry pi 4 with debian based raspberry pi os.

Owl files if you want a nice simple gui, but cli like termux or terminus are better for mass file transfer

Backups and backups and backups, and then and only then can you trust your data is safe. I run all consumer disks, have 2x2tb ssd’s in a raid1 for user facing storage which are always powered up and mounted. I only have 2 users in total, so relatively light load. Then I have 2x8tb hdd’s which only power on once a day at most, for as long as it takes rsync to complete it’s nightly backups, then they dismount and power off. Been running this for 18 months and not had any issues. My hdd’s will last years with their current load and usage, with only probably a few hundred mb written every night. But if your data is managed and backed up sensibly, and you use raid effectively, cheap discs aren’t a worry.