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Self-hostable projects that are just for fun? (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Alright so my lab is pretty much functionally complete; it does everything I was hoping it would and much more.

OK so now what :D Do you know of any projects that are self-hostable and serve no functional purpose whatsoever and exist just for fun? Could be silly projects, could be games. I'd like to add a "silly things" section to my publicly facing list of web services.

For instance, I was thinking of hosting a web version of nethack. Also I enjoyed hosting a node of hypermind for a little while just because it was so silly.

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[–] 37 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

I haven't done it in a few years but I used to run my own weather model. If fed the correct data and given time to crunch the numbers, several times a day you can create your own weather forecast that is probably (hopefully) similar to the freely available forecasts from the weather service, TV, radio and apps.

https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/models/wrf

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which input data is required? Is it hard to setup?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    It's been a few years but I don't remember it being too hard to set up. I did it on slackware, compiling everything from source, so anybody should be able to do it on a distro with dependency resolution.

    They provided a zip file that is updated every so often (hourly?) and contains data for your specific region. I just used that. It does have an option that people can use their own data, but I think it's because most NWS offices run this model in addition to the national models they get from upstream. No normal person has enough input data to be useful.

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