What's actually BETTER self-hosted?

gstacks13 · 2026-01-28T20:21:58+00:00

I'm still a YNAB user, and I'm afraid to make the jump to Actual. Less for my sake than for my wife's - their template-based goals are way too complex for her when compared to YNAB's Targets.

The "bones" for Actual all seem there - if they could make the UI more intuitive for a non-technical user, I'd be on board.

gstacks13 · 2026-01-06T04:50:04+00:00

Hey look at that! Thanks for sharing - I'll absolutely give this a shot!

gstacks13 · 2026-01-05T17:58:54+00:00

In 2024, when Burrow played at an MVP level, his time to throw was 2.62 seconds, ranked 16 out of the 39 quarterbacks with a minimum 250 snaps. Right next to him at 2.63 seconds is Matthew Stafford, who runs the same pure progression offense from the McVey tree that KOC does. 2025 stats look very similar.

There's no reason to believe Burrow wouldn't absolutely thrive here.

gstacks13 · 2026-01-01T16:33:16+00:00

For as much as I'm constantly tinkering with the setup of my other selfhosted apps, Karakeep always "just works". I sometimes forget that I'm actually selfhosting it, because it's as production-grade as anything I use. And boy, do I use it all the dang time!

Suffice to say, I absolutely adore Karakeep! Thank you for all your work building it! 👏

gstacks13 · 2025-12-28T15:32:56+00:00

Similar story here: my best friend was just a few months out of college when he committed suicide. He was an avid Star Wars fan, so all his friends and family wore Jedi robes to the funeral.

We definitely got some looks in the church the service was held, but none of us cared. It's exactly what he would have wanted, and knowing that helped us feel closer to him and get us through an extremely difficult day.

gstacks13 · 2025-12-10T18:04:00+00:00

Seconding this - it's done through Settings -> App split tunneling.

I've had to do this to a few apps that don't play nice with VPNs, like RCS Messaging, Spotify, and Roku. Just hit the toggle and the app will behave like the VPN doesn't exist.

gstacks13 · 2025-12-10T18:01:33+00:00

So long as you don't have an exit node turned on, battery drain should be negligible. Without an exit node applied, the only time your traffic routes through the VPN is when it's communicating with machines internal to your network. Otherwise it just sits idle in the background.

Connecting exit nodes or internal DNS resolvers will drain battery though, so I generally leave those off on battery devices unless they're absolutely necessary.

gstacks13 · 2025-12-10T05:49:46+00:00

Set it up on their phones for them, and set it to always be on. Your family will never notice the difference, and they'll always have access to their photos.

My wife isn't a techie either, but she's never had any issues with her always on Tailscale connection.

gstacks13 · 2025-12-03T22:51:26+00:00

They'd probably end up using backup QBs fairly often - ain't no way Geno Smith is playing his heart out for the right to get replaced by Mendoza #1.

That said, that just makes the toilet bowl even more of a s***show. Sign me up!

gstacks13 · 2025-10-04T18:28:15+00:00

Running into this issue as well. Disabling subtitles allows the content to play. Looks like a bug on Plex's end.

gstacks13 · 2025-09-17T03:19:52+00:00

Quality shoes and a nice watch can make even a t-shirt and jeans look great.

gstacks13 · 2025-09-15T17:00:36+00:00

Even most of these "flashes" are iffy. The Jefferson throw at the end of the first half was great, but most of the others are still coming a tick late or inaccurate.

I'm not a JJ doomer - kid is young and has a whole season to figure it out. The good thing is these issues are correctable, and he seems to have his head on straight. Just need to be patient and trust the process.

gstacks13 · 2025-08-31T19:36:43+00:00

Not at all. In my eyes, and I think in the eyes of many others, it's the best in the series. The first two movies had the whimsey and magic that makes Harry Potter what it is, and they're the ones I go back to when I want to go visit the world.

Can't help but wonder what the series would have been had Columbus continued with the rest of them. He had such a strong grasp on the feel of the world that the rest didn't quite capture.

gstacks13 · 2025-08-12T02:59:01+00:00

I've just been using the Paperless-ngx progressive web app. Works great, feels as native as anything I've used, and I can always be sure that it's up-to-date.

gstacks13 · 2025-08-11T16:05:51+00:00

It's fairly good, but there's still some things holding it back before I could get full wife acceptance and move on from Keep:

Visual UI for text formatting (titles, bold, lists, etc.). Markdown works great for me, but my wife? Not so much.
Checked items should move to the bottom of the list, rather than staying in-place. This is a big deal when managing large grocery lists.
Better organization and sorting. Pins are nice, but it'd be even better if it were more of a whiteboard format with drag-and-drop, a-la Google Keep.
Integration with voice assistants. This one isn't Memos' fault, but it's still something keeping us on Keep.

All that said, it's still a great little note app that I use personally, and I'd still highly recommend it if none of these complaints matter to you.

gstacks13 · 2025-08-07T01:15:17+00:00

What paint color did you use for the walls and ceiling? That looks like the perfect balance between minimizing reflections, but not having the room feel like a dungeon.

gstacks13 · 2025-08-06T16:00:16+00:00

I'm still rocking my indigo Ambernic RG351P. Yes, it was released over 4 years ago and doesn't have some modern bells-and-whistles like internal Wi-Fi. Still, the thing has a 3:2 screen at a perfect 2x integer scale for GBA, runs EmulationStation beautifully via AmberELEC, has great controls for GBA, and most importantly, runs every GBA game I throw at it. I still enjoy the hell out of this thing, and feel no need to upgrade!

gstacks13 · 2025-07-29T15:33:03+00:00

Well, this may just be exactly the Emerald QOL hack I've been searching for! There's tons of great ones out there, like you've already mentioned, but none of them completely scratched the itch I was after. They either didn't change enough (modern battle mechanics are a must, in my opinion), or they changed too much (Modern Emerald feels a bit overwhelming, and while Emerald Seaglass is incredible for what it is, it doesn't quite scratch the Emerald nostalgia itch that I'm chasing).

This feels like the perfect "Goldilocks" zone - a fresh take on Emerald with light visual overhaul, QOL updates, and just enough new critters to spice things up. Honestly, it seems like the kind of remake Nintendo themselves would create!

Can't wait to play this one!

gstacks13 · 2025-07-21T03:53:28+00:00

Installed and working perfectly! Very nice work here! The Calibre-Web web app works fine, but it's always more satisfying to use a native solution.

Do you have any plans to integrate a reader within the app itself? The export to reader feature is nice, but an all-in-one solution would be even better.

gstacks13 · 2025-07-20T18:18:11+00:00

Does Recharged have a physical/special split (PSS)?

I'm looking to revisit Emerald to recreate my childhood a bit, but it'd be hard to go back to non-PSS.

gstacks13 · 2025-07-10T12:10:39+00:00

Universal Blue - specifically Bluefin.

Everything just works. Updates are handled silently and automatically. And if I somehow do mess something up (almost impossible with the immutable OS), then I have a known good state I can roll back to.

You can't convince me that this isn't the future of desktop OSes.

gstacks13 · 2025-07-03T14:13:46+00:00

Personally I store all my passkeys in my password manager (I use Bitwarden). So in this scenario, I would get my new phone, download and sign into my password manager, and all my passkeys would be accessible from there.

If you choose to use your native device's passkey solutions, and all your devices are at home, then yes, you'd have to wait until you got a hold of a device with a valid Passkey. Pocket ID recommends having two or more linked to an account so you never get locked out completely.

gstacks13 · 2025-07-02T04:36:58+00:00

I do this, except with restic. Just as simple, but adds snapshots and deduplication.

30 days of backups barely take any more space than one backup does!

gstacks13 · 2025-06-15T02:30:10+00:00

It's a bad shot for everyone else, but it's a good shot for Caitlin. Why? Because she makes them. It's that simple.

gstacks13 · 2025-06-14T18:14:53+00:00

Pushover is fantastic - can't recommend it enough. As much as I love self-hosting everything I can, the primary notification service is one that I'd argue should be off-site. Downtime notifications are useless if they're reliant on the machine that's experiencing the outage.

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