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I want to present my files - wherever they may be - to all sorts of different applications which let me interact with them in different ways.

Only some self-hosted software grants us this portability.

I’d say almost everything is already covered with Samba shares and docker bind mounts. With Samba shares the data is presented across network to my Kodi clients, the file browser on my phone, and the file browsers of all my computers. And with docker bind mounts those files are presented to any services that I want to run.

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It isn’t, you can get SFF PCs for as little as $75 on eBay that have Quicksync CPUs and will run circles around a RPi, especially if you have to do any transcoding. They are also really power efficient… 7-20W idles.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195163970881

SBCs really should no longer be considered for selfhosting unless you are A) in an extremely power constrained environment like an off-grid RV or vanlife situation or B) clustering

Some dashboards can do this, check out homepage as one example. Glances is a great tool if you want to create your own. Really you should not rely on checking status pages for health but instead set up monitoring and notifications.

I use healthchecks.io and smtp_to_telegram to be instantly notified of SMART failures, storage limits, backup and other script failures, and if docker services go down. As with all selfhosting though, there are plenty of other options for both the monitoring system and the notification system.

I have a Paperwhite 2015 version that I got back in 2016 for only $30 when they had a big sale on them to unload for their new version. Looks like on eBay that 2015 version goes for $30-50 today.

I transfer books to it via a USB using Calibre. It doesn’t need nor do I connect it to WiFi. Newer models might also be able to work via USB only, I don’t know, but I know my 2015 works that way.

Yeah, my recommendation is basically this:

Do you need to share passwords?

No - use KeePass

Yes - use Bitwarden

I’ve managed to keep my KeePass database for almost 20 years going back as far as when I was a dumb teenager. Back then it was as simple as having a couple extra copies on usb drives and Google Drive, but now I keep proper backups.

My take is, I’d rather control it myself, I am responsible enough to take care of my data, and I actually wouldn’t trust someone else to do it. That’s a huge reason I selfhost in the first place, a lack of trust in others’ services. Also, online services are a bigger target because of the number of customers, and maybe even the importance of some of their customers, whereas I’m not a target at all. No one is going to go after me specifically.

That looks very nice, gives a lot more options which I love so I will have to look into it.

I know this doesn’t fit your criterea OP, but if anyone else is looking for some kind of notification service, I use: SMTP to Telegram

I get instantly notified on my phone for healthchecks.io failures, cronjob reports for different scripts like borg backups or ddns update failures, certain Home Assistant scripts, and Sonarr completions so I know when a new TV episode is done downloading, and a bunch of other things set to notify on failure like SMART failures or snapraid-runner failures or distro updates… so many things. It’s nice having peace of mind that if I haven’t been notified that something is wrong, then I know everything is working, and I do not need to check on it. So it’s one of my favorite services that I’m running.

I don’t think I need to say it, but this is obviously not something you would put facing WAN as there is no TLS nor authentication.

Most of the amcrest cameras have rtsp and don’t require cloud access, in fact I block mine from WAN altogether.

I have one wired POE outdoor camera and one wireless inside camera from them. Both are great cameras that I can fully control locally. Just make sure it has rtsp, because I’m not sure if every model they make has it.

I read it as the lists are awesome, not necessary everything in the lists.

I will tell you right now that I also think your idea is bad because I wouldn’t follow a list with subjective criteria and selections. I don’t want someone making those subjective decisions for me. Who is to say what awesome is? You don’t know what I’m looking for in a service, you don’t know what I value. If I prioritize privacy and security over form and function, I guarantee it is not going to be the popular or “awesome” option.

Example:

The tide is changing in this regard but 3 years ago, jellyfin was much less mature and Plex was really the most popular option for streaming media. Honestly, very few people talked about jellyfin and if they did, it was usually about it’s deficiencies. So 3 years ago, according to most peoples’ criteria, Plex might be the top option on a list, maybe even the only option with a couple of honorable mentions. But according to me, I wouldn’t even put Plex on a list because I don’t consider it selfhosting being that it relies on 3rd party servers. So who is right? There is not right or wrong, it’s subjective, everyone has to make their own decisions. So you see the problem. That is merely one example of countless because everyone prioritizes things differently.

This is also a beneficial list to us:

https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin

I just wanted to give you my two cents and say that I appreciate the way you have it. And also thank you for all the thought you’ve put into it because I don’t want someone making subjective decisions for me and I’m glad you understand that position.

Interesting, yeah, maybe report it as an issue on github, I use a browser link to my dashboard for Home Assistant instead of the app so it hasn’t happened to me. I almost installed it the other day to get presence detection but decided on another way.

Yeah, I haven’t had any problems with it, what apps have been an issue for you?

The app that I use the most during that transitional period would be Ultrasonic which would be streaming music from the Airsonic service as I get in my vehicle and drive away or arrive back home. But even that flawlessly transitions without skipping a beat since it is set to cache songs.

It would be extra overhead for no reason. Why keep it on when Tasker automates it?

You are talking about security when that is not the purpose of it. So yes, you are off on a tangent and missing the point of it.

It should be clear to people who don’t understand security that running a protocol on a different port doesn’t mean shit for safety.

It is clear, it’s clear to everyone, so why did you randomly interject irrelevant information? Because you incorrectly assumed someone thought it had to do with security… but no one here thought it had anything to do with security. Everyone understood it but for you, and you were corrected not only by me but the other person.

Because it doesn’t get as much attention” wouldn’t mean anything to any enterprise firewall the moment it’s not an http header.

As I’ve said, I’ve used it a few times to escape firewalls… it works. Will it always work? No, I never made the claim this will bypass all firewalls… the strictest of firewalls will block it, but there are other ways around those firewalls. E.g. proxytunnel, stunnel4

I think you may be still missing the point because it was never implied that the port change is for security; the security is in disabling password authentication and only accepting key based authentication. The reason I put it on 443 is because it is a port that is usually allowed by firewalls and doesn’t get as much attention. So if I am on a network that is blocking access for standard VPN or SSH ports then it might just be enough for me to bypass it. And it’s traffic on a port that is going to see a lot of other encrypted traffic going across it, so it looks more natural then just popping some other random ports that could potentially raise an alarm.