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Useful apps to self-host (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am setting up my NAS right now, and I need some suggestions for apps that I can run on my NAS or self-host.

I have seen some online articles, but they are too confusing because they list too many apps for each category.
I want backup apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. (It would be great if they could back up automatically).
I want to sync my calendars and contacts.
I want to download media like TV shows and movies. (And music, too). “Of course, only legal obtained from the internet cough.”
I want apps that let me access my data from anywhere.
I saw this cool thing where you could use a Raspberry Pi to access your NAS bios from your PC.

Os - Unraid

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tailscale will give you encrypted access to all devices everywhere, including iOS. For any hardware that can't run Tailscale, you can use any Tailscale client on the same network to be a subnet router - other Tailscale clients can then access that network via that client. I do this with a Raspberry Pi.

Once you have a mesh network like Tailscale setup, you can use native tools to copy files, etc, because the the mesh network provides the connection.

Checkout Syncthing and Resilio Sync. Both are great sync tools with different features. I use both, but rely primarily on Syncthing since it's much better on memory use on Android. I use Resilio just for its on-demand sync feature.

Syncthing can also run on an Rpi. I'm pretty sure Resilio can too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I’m 50/50 regarding tailscale; from what I heard, it’s not fully open source.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You can try out Headscale. The self hosted/open source version of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The important part is open source (the client) so you can verify everything that has to do with your privacy.