Your old phone is a better home server than a Raspberry Pi
…The benefit is that you can now self-host your network's ad blocker on a device tucked behind your router, which costs pennies to run. A classic smart home usage is…
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I ditched Plex, Google Photos, and iCloud for self-hosted alternatives, and Pangolin made it actually work
1d agoI built a NAS with enterprise SAS drives, and the hidden costs nearly matched new SATA drives
1d agoI finally built the central AI hub I've been wanting, and Open WebUI made it stupidly simple
4d agoI moved my entire Kindle library to a self hosted server and escaped the Amazon walled garden for good
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…and started using the built-in calendar to replace Google Calendar entirely. What keeps me coming back is the ecosystem. Nextcloud has an app store with add-ons for notes, bookmarks, tasks…
I saved $300 with this self-hosted flight price tracker and so can you
…Because Fairtrail is self-hosted , anytime I have routes I want to keep an eye on, I just add them to the service, and it keeps collecting data in the background. I…
This open-source app finally showed me how much I was actually spending on subscriptions
…Finally, if you want to go the AI route, you'll even find a built-in chat assistant that lets you inquire about your subscriptions using AI, or add new ones without…
10 quality-of-life services I self-host on my home lab
…The best part? Vaultwarden is so lightweight that you can host it on practically any system in your home server – including a Raspberry Pi. Homepage Add some pizzazz to your self-hosting…
I switched from Google Tasks to this self-hosted chore planner for a week and my house has never been cleaner
…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…
I built a retro gaming library on my NAS, and RomM makes it feel like Plex for games
…He writes for XDA-Developers, where he focuses on topics like productivity, networking, self-hosting, and more. Over the years, his work has also appeared in leading publications such as Android Police…
My $15 Raspberry Pi hosts my password manager and gets rid of expensive subscriptions
…Sign in to your XDA account Gradually switching to self-hosting helped me discover numerous useful tools. I now use a Paperless-ngx alongside a local LLM on one of my systems…
This open-source F1 tool replaced my F1TV subscription with real data
…I built my own self-hosted location tracker and ditched Google Timeline Take back your privacy with this powerful self-hosted location tracking solution. A smarter way to explore races A simple…
Tines built the better AI workflow builder, but n8n is the one self-hosters will actually use
Tines built the better AI workflow builder, but n8n is the one self-hosters will actually use