Free and Open Source Software

Here are a few I like:

• Jellyfin - a media server software that allows you to organize and stream your personal media collection.
• NextCloud - a self-hosted file sync and sharing platform. Not as good as Google Drive (of course), but it can do the job.
• Bitwarden (with a Rust-written alternative named vaultwarden) - a password manager for storing and autofilling login credentials.
• Matrix - an open network for secure, decentralized communication. WhatsApp, but in the Fediverse.
• PiHole - a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and other unwanted content.
• Mycroft - an open-source voice assistant. You can make your own Google Home with it.
• OctoPrint - web interface that allows you to control 3D printers. Pretty handy if you have one!
• Gitea - a lightweight self-hostable GitHub
• Home Assistant - an open-source home automation platform. Can integrate a lot of other things in your house, including some of the things I mentioned above.
• The X-arr initiative - a collection of tools for managing and organizing media libraries. Pretty good if you deploy your own media server:
  • Sonarr - Select TV shows and it will automatically download episodes for you.
  • Radarr -> movies
  • Lidarr -> music

• Caddy - Reverse proxy
• Owncast - Twitch alternative
• Jellyfin - Home video streaming application
• Joplin - Note taking app that syncs
• Syncthing - syncs files from my LineageOS (Android) phones to PC
• PiHole - AD blocker
• Minetest - open source voxel game engine (basically Minecraft)
• Veloren - open source adventure game
• Invidious - frontend for Youtube
• Libreddit - frontend for Reddit (about to stop working)
• Proxitok - frontend for TikTok
• Nitter - frontend for Twitter
• Rimgo - frontend for Imgur
• Libremdb - frontend for IMDB

Edit: Fixed PiHole from saying "VPN" blocker to "AD" :-D

Nextcloud, Bitwarden (vaultwarden is the name of the OSS server), Adguard Home / Pihole and Paperless-NGX might be some things which can have a pretty big impact in your daily life.

Jellyfin with Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and some torrent client makes a great automated media server. Just don't forget a VPN!

From the things I use:

• Uptime Kuna, for monitoring the availability of websites/services
• Gitea, for hosting code
• PicoShare, for sharing files
• Maddy, for email

Personally, as well as NextCloud, I'd host instances of LibreX, CloudTube, PiHole, Gitea, XMPP, and CryptPad.

If it's fun you're after, though, why not try hosting a Minecraft server? And how about XMPP or Matrix, to keep in touch with friends?

I have two instances of BookStack. A public-facing one for bird stuff, and one for home stuff. I also self-host an instance of Plausible Analytics as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics.

Home Assistant! You can host it inside a VM.

Miniflux as an RSS reader

Here are some I find really useful:

• Jellyfin (media interface)
• paperless-ng (document store with OCR, tagging, search, etc.)
• Miniflux (RSS reader)

pihole/adblock monero node/support monero network p2pool/mining pool for monero wireguard/vpn Tor relay, i have thought of using an old pc to support Tor

I'm using the following:

Plex for music/anime/tv/movies, calibre webserver for ebooks/manga, qbittorrent web+Prowlarr to search for and download content, SyncThing to keep things in sync between my server and desktop, and I'm also file sharing with nicotine++

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I've got a pretty booring setup compared to most 🤣. Ubuntu Server running the following in docker,

• Plex
• Audiobookshelf
• Komga

Audiobookshelf has come a really long way. The version out now is heaps and bounds better than what it was 1 year ago.

• Portainer server and agent for monitoring all docker hosts in one place
• Traefik as reverse proxy
• Dashy (complex) and Homarr (simpler) as dashboards
• Gluetun for VPN access for containers and proxy for everyone on the network
• Radarr/Sonarr for managing Movies and TV shows
• Navidrome for music
• Audiobookshelf for audiobooks
• Transmission/qbittorrent/rtorrent/deluge as torrent clients
• Pinhole for DNS
• Technitium for more advanced DNS and DHCP (might replace all piholes with this or blocky in the future)
• Plex/Jellyfin for media streaming
• JellyfinVue - awesome frontend to jellyfin
• Bazarr - for subtitles