Laptop as server, how to best manage battery?

submitted by mgrimace to selfhosted
56 points | 26 comments

Hello folks,

What do folks recommend as good practices to use a laptop as an always on, always plugged-in server? Specifically, how to manage the battery and some of the potential cautions/dangers of keeping it plugged in.

I have a spare Dell workstation laptop that I’d like to use as a Proxmox node. I’ve seen a number of posts where…

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This community isn't your personal adviser

submitted by roofuskit to selfhosted
541 points | 155 comments

Please don’t expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.

This has become a…

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This community isn't your personal adviser

submitted by roofuskit to selfhosted
441 points | 124 comments

Please don’t expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.

This has become a…

This community isn't your personal adviser

submitted by roofuskit to selfhosted
107 points | 17 comments

Please don’t expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.

This has become a chronic…

This community isn't your personal adviser

submitted by roofuskit to selfhosted
532 points | 137 comments

Please don’t expect the community to give you answers to your questions which you then delete right afterwards. Those of us who put time into answering your questions are not doing so just to serve your personal needs, we are here to help build a community knowledge base that others can search and reference.

This has become a…

Strava just killed its free API, will require a subscription if you want to build on top of it

submitted by OpenAltFinder to selfhosted
185 points | 49 comments
https://communityhub.strava.com/insider-journal-9/an-update-to-our-developer-program-13428

…strava.com/…/an-update-to-our-developer-program-…

The gist of it is that Strava just killed its free API, and will now require developers to have a subscription.

At Strava, we care deeply about developers, and the health of the…

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Question: What are some alternatives to a Raspberry Pi good for a small home server?

submitted by GreenShimada to selfhosted
91 points | 75 comments

Hi all,

I want to spin up a small home server. Nothing crazy, maybe 4 or 8GB ram at most. 1 Docker instance running a few privacy frontends (Invidious, Redlib, Xcancel, SearxNG, etc.) and split tunneling VPN connections for each one.

Obviously, a Raspberry Pi 4 or higher is the internet’s favorite choice, but I don’t need wireless…

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Today I started my self hosting journey

submitted by Confining to selfhosted
58 points | 5 comments

So today after almost a year of learning what self hosting and what a nas and raid configuration was, I was to get a used hp prodesk 600 g6 mini and install zimaos on it. Zimaos really made things a lot simpler than I thought it was going to be. I was easily able to install portainer and immich and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it…

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Where did the dust settle on Syncthing Fork?

submitted by psycotica0 to selfhosted
26 points | 3 comments

Hey folks! I know a while back there was a kerfuffle because syncthing-fork for Android went dark, and then a new person showed up and claimed everything was cool and they’d been privately given the keys or something, and people were concerned. I pinned my fdroid version to the at-that-time-current release until we got clarity.

Well,…

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Ideon 0.9 — from watching to acting

submitted by expyth0n to selfhosted
42 points | 9 comments

0.9 is out.

Quick context if this is your first time: Ideon is a self-hosted visual workspace, an infinite canvas where you drop blocks for your Git repos, notes, tasks, files, and now automation. Everything about a project in one place.

The last release post ended with “move from visibility to control.” This is the start of…

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Going nuts with networking of VMs on Proxmox

submitted by trilobite to selfhosted
16 points | 12 comments

Hi, so I have a little Proxmox box with two VMs: VM1 and VM2 which is a clone of VM1. I change the mac of VM2 to avoid conflict and I reset the machine ID of VM1. I then have a seperate pfSense machine machine that that acts as router, firewall and DHCP server. Proxmox is on the 192.168.20.1/24 domain. In the DHCP server, Proxmox get…

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NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.42 released: self-hosted nutrition tracker

submitted by TraceApps to selfhosted
-1 points | 0 comments
https://github.com/TraceApps/nutritrace

NutriTrace is a self-hosted nutrition + wellness tracker, alternative to MyFitnessPal / Cronometer / LoseIt. Runs entirely on your own server: no telemetry, no analytics, no account hosted by anyone but you. First public release was 26 April 2026; currently at v1.0.0-rc.42.

Repo (AGPL-3.0) ·…

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Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)!

submitted by jkaczman to selfhosted
267 points | 72 comments

Hey everyone,

We’ve built an open-source, privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W (called Secluso). It uses end-to-end encryption to send videos from the camera to a mobile app, which is available both in Google Play Store and Apple App Store. We also support Obtainium for people that do not wish…

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Jellyfin to quadruple their prices following Plex's price increases

submitted by eager_eagle to selfhosted
796 points | 83 comments
https://old.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/1tiwk07/regarding_the_jellyfin_price_increase/

If you haven’t seen it yet, we recently made the announcement that starting July 1, 2026, the price of “Jellyfin Premium+ One Super Unlimited (with Ads)” will increase to $0.00 USD*. There has been a lot of enthusiasm regarding charge backs,…

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Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

submitted by german to selfhosted
855 points | 186 comments
https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down

In the latest episode of “they will always sell you out” - they sold you out! Who would’ve thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can’t exist…

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Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

submitted by german to selfhosted
488 points | 124 comments
https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down

In the latest episode of “they will always sell you out” - they sold you out! Who would’ve thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can’t exist…

I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots

submitted by vegetaaaaaaa to selfhosted
531 points | 78 comments
https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem

Relevant since we started outright rejecting agent-made PRs in awesome-selfhosted [1] and issuing bans for it. Some PRs made in good faith could probably get caught in the net, but it’s currently the only decent tradeoff we could make to absorb the massive influx of…

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