• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The only one I haven’t seen mentioned here that is a requirement for me is OPNsense. I’ve been using it for a couple years, and pfSense before that for a very long time. Never going back to commercial routers and their shitty / buggy / backdoored software. I highly recommend OPNsense over pfSense for the UI improvements alone, but there are other reasons to use/support OPNsense over pfSense.

    On my network it handles internet firewall, internal firewall, and all routing across 5 VLANs and between two internet gateways. It does 1-1 NAT for my public IPs, inbound VPN, outbound VPN for my *arr stack, and RDNS blocklists with the data source being a script I wrote that merges from several sources and deduplicates the list. It is my internal certificate authority (I don’t miss you at all, Windows CA), DHCP for the guest wifi, and does pihole-like ad blocking via DNS for my entire network. And it does all that running in a VM with 2GB of RAM, of which it only uses about 60% on my install.

    It is an incredibly powerful tool, not terribly difficult to learn, has a pretty damn good UI for FOSS, and in my opinion is a fantastic foundation for a complex home network / homelab. Unlike pfSense, which corrupted itself twice over the years I ran it, it has never let me down. And every update has been painless over the years.

  • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Pi-hole. Get rid of at least some ads on the network level. Maybe add unbound for a faster DNS response.

  • Shertson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    For me:

    • Card/CalDAV baikal : so that I can sync my calendar and address book across phone, tablet, workstation, and laptop
    • Messaging prosody/synapse : private chatting with family.
    • File sync Nextcloud : for access to various files. This is the only one that has worked consistently for me. Syncthing et al would constantly lose connection and the file I needed wouldn’t be there. Works fantastic for syncing Joplin notes.
    • VPN wireguard : to access things remotely and securely
    • Audiobooks audiobooksheld : I have a ridiculously large audio book library and enjoy listening to them when driving. This way I don’t have to preload my phone.
    • Ebooks calibreweb : another large library. I have separate instances for different types: Magazines, regular books, RPG/gamebooks.
    • Version control forgejo : for coding and creative writing projects.
    • bookmarks shaarli : I find myself using this less and less. I use Firefox’s built-in sync, so I’m thinking about switching to separating selfhosting that instead of shaarli.
    • Photos Synology : looking forward to immich getting stable. Once they get past regular breathing changes I’ll move over to that.

    I have stopped using most of the services that got me into selfhosting. Things like rss and wikis. I try new things from time to time but kill them if I don’t find myself using them regularly or if the maintenance cost is more than the value add.

  • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In terms of most used for me, it would be:

    • Nextcloud: contains my contacts, calendar, and photos synced with my phone, as well as access to files on my server from any web browser.
    • Home assistant: both automated and remote control of your lights, thermostat, etc.
    • Audiobookshelf: only really useful if you have an audiobook collection
    • Vault Warden: self-hosted bitwarden. Not really all that important to self-host, since a bit warden’s clients are open source.
    • Frigate: only useful if you have security cameras.
    • Navidrome: only useful if you have a music collection.
    • Jellyfin: only useful if you have a movie / TV collection.
    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Gonna also throw in: Nextcloud Memories.

      It makes the photo organizing part of NextCloud AMAZING. I’m so happy I got to dump Google Photos for good.