AdventureLog is pretty cool. Pairs with Immich nicely too.
Paperless NGX is awesome. Of course Immich. I also really like Firefly-iii and Home Assistant.
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RSSHub. Being able to get all my updates in one place changed how I view the internet for the better.
If you want to get straight to the fun, I might recommend: https://cosmos-cloud.io/
It will handle all of the uninteresting stuff like docker, reverse proxies, ssl certificates, etc. You can get straight to adding apps either by pasting in a docker-compose, or getting them straight from the cosmos marketplace.
Also, it works with standard tools, so other than the reverse proxy, it's easy to migrate away from if you want. I think the reverse proxy is just caddy, but I don't know where the caddy config file goes or how to pull it out of the funky cosmos config format.
I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself.
Well, you kind of have to have the infrastructure to make the fun happen. Docker is probably one of the more easy to deploy from the standpoint of someone just standing up a server.
- media server: Navidrome is what I use, but there are a plethora of choices
- photos app: Immich is quite popular, but again there are a list of them
- game servers: There are several that I know of like Doom , Minecraft, iirc there is a Quake server, I think you can integrate Steam. I can't run games because of a seizure condition, but maybe others can chime in.
- home automation: HomeAssistant, NodeRed, N8N, Ansible, just literally tons of automation
These and thousands of other apps can be deployed via Docker. You don't have to use docker, you can install on bare metal as well, tho containers make things neat and tidy.
As far as 'fun', to me it's all fun. I selfhost for the utility, privacy, security, and anonymity of it, the educational part of it, and because it's fun. My version of fun is going to vary widely from yours probably, but I find learning quite fun. Sky's the limit pretty much.
Maybe an IRC server/bouncer
Adguard Home, with domain pointed to it and using it as Private DNS on Android. No more ads anywhere!
Your own wiki, and your own social media-type service
I post miscellaneous notes to my social media-type service, and save lists and more organised information (including recipes) to my wiki.
I haven't gotten to hosting my own wiki, but i do host an internal-only personal knowledge static site built with hugo. I have it set to build the site on my server which then serves it. Very useful to have something like that or a wiki.
I used to do it that way too, but my wife is not technically inclined, so we settled on something with a web UI for editing.
There are a few areas where the wiki is marginally better for me, the main one being the ability to do quick edits from a smartphone.
I do really like the simple approach with a static site builder though
I started with NextCloud, mainly so I can start synchronizing Joplin notes. Maybe I could hook it up to also sync Logseq?
I chose this VTT because it's dead simple and description on owlbear legacy did not sound encouraging
Then, on my list I have
If you have a Nvidia graphics card 1070 and above, then openwebui. You can selfhost your own LLM. AMD is probably supported but haven't checked.