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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Today I set up my old laptop as a Debian server, hosting Immich (for photos), Nextcloud (for files), and Radicale (for calendar). It was surprisingly easy to do so after looking at the documentation and watching a couple videos online! Tomorrow I might try hosting something like Linkwarden or Karakeep.

What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

I would like to keep my laptop confined to my local network since I don’t trust it to be secure enough against the internet.

edit: I forgot, I’m also hosting Tailscale so I can access my local network remotely!

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[-] suzune@ani.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm thinking about moving my Nextcloud calendars and addressbooks to Baikal. Why? Because I like one "tool for one thing" better than "one tool for everything".

Small update: Today I moved to Baikal successfully.

It's missing some features, I noticed.

  1. There are no shared addressbooks, so a shared user is needed. Addressbooks also cannot be read-only.
  2. There is no birthday calendar. There is a Python script for MySQL to run from cron. I ported it to PostgreSQL today.
[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

that makes sense, not having all your eggs in one basket.

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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