I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you’ve been missing out.

For me it’s not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it’s great. I probably can’t find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I’ve gotten. Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that’s not what it is intended for.

What is that service for you?

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https://mealie.io/

Recipe manager and meal planner which can pull recipes from the web. I started using it after a few recipes on sites disappeared. My families most used app (besides plex).

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been loving mealie too! tied in with home assistant for shopping list and the meal planning calendar has helped us cook more together and stop spending so much on takeout!

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Oh I’m going to have to check that out!

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https://mealie.io/

I havent done much with it other than get all our paper recipes into it and added some via import. I am looking forward to it as its my next project now that photos are done.

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Thanks, this looks awesome, last one I tried was tandoor but didn’t really liked it, the import/export capabilities of this one make it a lot more interesting for me, to ensure I can recover the recipes or build them into markdown files if I ever want to migrate away from it.

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Thanks, installed it right away ;)

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I landed on Tandoor. I had a bunch of recipes on one of those web sites and they switched to a subscription model and locked me out of my recipes. I don’t remember why I chose Tandoor over Mealie, but having full ownership over my recipes is freeing.

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I didn’t know if this was something I was missing, but man this could be my new number 1. The import function is really great. I’ve already added a lot of recipes. Thanks!

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The one that was way more useful then expected is immich. I have over 100,000 photos I took during my life and it usually takes me DAYS to find a specific picture I need.

I installed immich and let it AI scan everything for a week or something. Now I can search for something specific like “it’s a black square in the middle of the photo and has a little knob on it” and it finds me the photo I need.

It’s also cool to see photos of people, organized by the individual by searching their name or clicking on their face.

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Is this local only? No clouds reported data?

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Of course it is.

You can download different models as well. For me, without a GPU, searching for example ‘cat’ takes a few seconds, and it is not the most accurate, but still works OK.

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This is exactly why I’d want a GPU in a home server.

That and transcoding. Wonder what the best option would be without breaking the bank/wasting too much idle power. All the GPU talk online seems to be for gaming.

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Local only.

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I’ve only just set it up, mainly for the facial recognition. I had no idea that it could do that type of search too. It’s going to be really helpful with my faulty brain and not remembering words 🙂

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Pet detection is sorta on the roadmap for 2025… I couldn’t be happier.

+1 for immich, if I didn’t already know I would be doing photo backups it would have been my entry. For things “I didn’t know I needed”

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I think that’s the last prod I needed to finally switch.

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I think there one I never expected would be Kitchenowl. Shopping list, recipe list, planner for food, expenses… very useful for a joined household.

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Immich! Backs up my phone pictures for my family with automatic backup through an easy app interface. Knowing my large album of photos on my phone won’t be tied to an endless growing subscription fees for…ever?!

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Same!

Did not realize how good it is to have digital albums with the family! And also having a backup is great as well, for a peace of mind.

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Immich is fantastic. Yes.

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Is this accessible outside your own home network, or is it restricted to local?

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It’s very accessible with a reverse proxy. Just please be secure if you choose to do so. It’s been a wonderful piece of software and i will be paying for the lifetime server license this weekend.

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Done and done. I just took a screenshot, ctrl+v’d it right in the same browser tab and then went to my phone and hit reply on this post and attached the image. Its the best desktop -> mobile experience Ive used in a long time. It just works once you get it going. I pass through the igpu of a proxmox host into the VM and aside from some earlier compatibility issues (I think its mostly on my end, GVT-v, i915 and a bungled original grub config) the ML has been crash free for almost a year. Ive had 0 uptime issues (now that i only pull monthly) and I was smart with my initial compose script and everything is external. mountpoints are external, all the storage is over 10g to a truenas box.

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Same as any piece of software you’re hosting, it’s up to you to decide. I run my instance on my Hetzner vm.

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Syncthing. Decentralized data backup that works with minimal setup. Now I can add cloud sync to most any app.

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Watch out to enable “keep on delete” features. I didn’t do that and didn’t see that gigabytes of personal photos got deleted which I had to recover from an old backup. Still don’t know how it happened as I only found out a few weeks after the fact.

Sync is not backup! If there’s a software bug or a wrong setting sync can delete your files. Syncthing is pretty mature so I doubt this was a Syncthing bug, however you shouldn’t only trust Syncthing. I’m doing btrfs snapshots weekly and delete them after three years for important folders nowadays.

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I setup my own with a bash script for backup years ago that uses rsync, feel too invested in that now to change

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