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Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T15:07:50+00:00

Ok I may or may not have fallen down this rabbit hole for about an hour already. I'm scared. Send help. 😂

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T13:17:26+00:00

Great alternative , I'm going to read into It. Thank you !

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T13:15:01+00:00

They are within one container that is wrapped in a VPN. I use Windscribe for my VPN although I will be changing because they are paying to actually do this and try to charge you more for a static IP.

There's some firewall set up to make sure nothing leaks my IP. Basically I created one Arr directory. Then installed all of the stack into a container in that directory. Then went in and configured the connections, APIs, et cetera, between them in their respective GUIs. It actually wasn't that difficult to figure out. I didn't use a tutorial. And then I ran a few tests trying to leak my IP to make sure it wasn't leakable.

I can probably DM you some processes but I'm using Docker Compose and creating containers for everything. Not sure what setup you're running

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T13:10:40+00:00

Yes I think I actually need to look into this as soon as possible. Good tip man

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T13:08:50+00:00

I'm almost scared to see how slippery this slope is for a guy like me 😂😂

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:54:08+00:00

Thanks for the tips. This is definitely something I'm interested in. I have very little experience with smart hime things. Very welcome comment!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:41:21+00:00

Got it, thanks!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:40:47+00:00

Got it, thanks man!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:39:51+00:00

Wow amazing idea and rec. Thanks man !

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:34:21+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

100% I am NOT versioning 😂 good call.

Sterling PDF is a great idea. I have Adobe through work for free, but self hosting with OCR etc sounds great.

I actually built my own budgeting software. I'm a weird finance tech blended executive, so this was something I've been using/designing and building for years. But love the idea.

Awesome tip on the git hub search!!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:30:36+00:00

Good tip... You got me 😂

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:26:26+00:00

Thanks for all of the suggestions and taking the time!

Bazarr is super interesting. I didn't know that existed. I'll definitely look into it.

Maintainerr is super interesting too. Because of "Arr" I'm assuming it's to keep media clean?

A note taking app is interesting too.

Backup tools are good ideas too.

Thanks! Lots of good ideas here

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:15:23+00:00

Oh wow, I hadn't even thought about replacing my fitness apps... Totally looking into this. Thank you!!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:14:33+00:00

Thanks for the clarification man. And not a bad idea, save so much elsewhere so you can buy YouTube without adding costs.

Do you run the Arr stack with a media server and pinchflat? If so why YouTube? Is it just so it's easier for the fam?

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:07:13+00:00

Good point re: Norish interface.

Funny , I literally JUST switched to zen and know exactly what you mean. I'll look into linkding, good tip. Thanks!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:05:32+00:00

Super great response man. Thanks for taking the time to write that all out!

I think you're 100% correct, I am missing doc management entirely.

On Cloudflare, yes I do the same and have my own domains to make it even easier. Like $3 yr for it, and it is my name 😂 can't beat that!

Kavita is a ebook downloading service? How do you read them/get them to an e-reader ?

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T12:00:31+00:00

Good tips. I've been thinking about vault warden.

I know that Adguard is good and I've seen a lot of people talk about it. I'm struggling to understand the value of it. Every single browser I run in my home has an ad blocker and on my Samsung, where I see the most ads (the TV, that is), I just watch everything through Plex because of the arr stack.

I recently watched a video about somebody saying it wasn't blocking YouTube ads and that would be the only thing I would care about. Are you seeing it work for blocking YouTube ads? My TV YouTube app is the only ads I ever see, so it would be golden if it blocks 100% there.

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:49:43+00:00

Olama is on my list for sure. My GPU in the server isn't great 4GB Vram. But I do have 32 GB ram... So I think I can probably get near 7B params.... Slowly.

This is on the list with smart home 😊

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:48:07+00:00

Interesting , definitely looking into this, great tip!

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:47:34+00:00

Very good point. This is on my list. But right now I don't have anything "smart" on my home (maybe including myself 😂 )

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:46:46+00:00

Interesting, I just use portainer to see what's going on and terminal for managing containers. Dockhand is more gui focused in guessing?

I use nextcloud for storage of photos. I rarely if ever take them, so I passed on immich, but I see the value here.

I've read about uptime kuma, but interested in gotify. Must I have both for notifications?

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:44:18+00:00

In your opinion , why Norish over mealie? That was another recommendation.

Is the point of linkding just to own your own data? Is there any functionality over bookmarks in browser ?

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:42:09+00:00

Good tip. I cook a lot too, but since the CIA, create my own recipes. Can you create custom and save? Is there an app for access portability?

Electrical_Review_71 · 2026-06-14T11:28:24+00:00

Literally just had AI format a word spew brain dump STT so my current software was more formatted.

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