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Do you use all your self hosted services? Are there any you found to be not worth it after installing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by nodsocket@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've always been conservative about what kind of services I host because it takes time to get them set up. For example, there's no reason for me to set up music streaming when I only ever listen to music on my phone and all my music files are already on my phone. On the other hand, it's a good learning opportunity to set stuff up and have to fix it when it breaks. What do you think?

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[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If something interests you, set it up. If you find you don't need it, take it down.

[–] HReflex@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's pretty much exactly what I have done. I've hosted Plex, and Matrix in the past. Plex I will host in the future but Matrix was too much for me to host on my own, but the experience of setting it up myself was definitely worth it.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

I recommend checking out Jellyfin instead of Plex. Open source, fully self hosted.

[–] jamesravey@lemmy.nopro.be 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I spent a lot of time setting up firefly-iii, a really neat and feature-rich finance manager. It's a really great piece of software by a very responsive and friendly dev but after about 6 weeks I still couldn't get used to it and ended up going back to paying for YNAB.

I swear by memos now though - highly recommended. It's like having a private twitter stream where you can send thoughts, notes and files that you want to store/refer back to.

[–] jon@lemmy.tf 1 points 1 year ago

I spun up Firefly a few months ago and had about three weeks where I was actively categorizing transactions and reconciling everything and then my ADD kicked in. Really cool tool but I just need something low-maintenance for budget tracking.

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really liked Firefly III but it doesn't allow negative budgets, so I'm running Actual Budget now.

[–] iter_facio@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

How do you like Actual? I set up Fireflyiii as well, but once I read that there is no way to share a ledger, so to speak, it turned me off a bit.

My wife has bookkeeping experience, so something that is a bit closer to double entry bookkeeping would be awesome, since it should fit easily into her quickbooks experience.

Currently looking at akaunting, which seems like it may work, if it is truly self hosted

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

I would rather waste a week setting something up to find I don't like it, then paying some company to give me some ad riddled thing that phones home every few minutes and being stuck with it for a month, then the nonstop emails after I've cancelled and my information being sold to who knows who.