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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)

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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[-] [email protected] 176 points 1 year ago

As far as changed your life, there are not too many that i really love, that made a massive difference to how i do things. But there is one:

Paperless_ngx

ALL of my paper work, receipts, transcripts, tax, shares, council rates. Everything goes in there. We no longer have paper lieing everywhere (well, my wife is another matter, still keeps grocery shopping reciepts...). when i get soimething in the mail, i used the paperless app to "scan" it, upload it, then bin the paper.

An actual life change that i didn't know i needed.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it possible for the scans to be stored as files that are readable should paperless crash and I’m not around to get it up and running, or are files stored as weird non-standard file formats?

edit: looks like scans are saved as pdf’s. Thanks for the insight!

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

It creates searchable PDFs, so no weird format locked to paperless-ngx

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the insight!

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