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 This page provides links to a bunch of popular projects that have so far gotten mentioned during our meetups. You can find a more exhausted list on the [https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted awesome-selfhosted] Github repository, and the [https://github.com/petersem/dockerholics dockerholics] repository.
-=== Operating systems with one click installers ===
+=== Hardware ===
+* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hBgedPHaQXZwLwmx1ZsODRo84RVIKHgvA4upH5M_a-4/edit?usp=sharing Rubin's simple budget friendly first server slides]
+* [https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=lenovo+thinkcentre+tiny eBay search for the Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny]
+* [https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/03/21/ups-i-did-it-again/ Uninterruptible Power Supply]
+* [https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ Home Assistant Green]
+=== Operating systems with a one click install system ===
+The OS gets fully installed on a system, and then offers a management website for installing additional services without needing the user to run commands.
 * [https://www.home-assistant.io/ Home Assistant] - HAOS provide Home Assistant for home automation, and handles one click install "add-ons"
 * [https://yunohost.org/ YunoHost] - A one click installer dashboard, very easy to approach
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 * [https://www.proxmox.com/ Proxmox] - Commercial, geared more towards running virtual machines
-=== New to Linux and self hosting ===
+=== New to Linux and self-hosting ===
-* [https://explainshell.com/ explainshell.com] - Type in a Linux command, it tells you what it does
+* [https://explainshell.com/ explainshell.com] - Paste in a Linux command, it tells you what it does
 * [https://boringtech.net/blog/intro-to-self-hosting-how-to-get-started-hosting-your-applications/ Intro to self-hosting] - An ok guide to get going, slightly dated
 * [https://nerdyarticles.com/docker-101/ Docker 101] - Another ok guide on getting started with Docker containers and Docker Compose
 * [https://github.com/tborychowski/self-hosted-cookbook/ Self-hosted Cookbook] - A repository of docker-compose configurations for major services
-=== Home network tools ===
+=== Management and monitoring tools ===
+* [https://github.com/portainer/portainer Portainer] - Commercial with a free version, web UI to monitor and manage Docker containers
+=== Network tools ===
-* [https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome AdGuard] - Commercial with a FOSS version, ad blocking
+*[https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome AdGuard] - Commercial with a FOSS version, ad blocking
-* [https://pi-hole.net/ Pi-Hole] - Ad blocking, installable independently on a Raspberry Pi or as a container
+*[https://pi-hole.net/ Pi-Hole] - Ad blocking, installable independently on a Raspberry Pi or as a container
+* [https://www.ui.com/introduction Ubiquiti Unifi] - Super commercial, the affordable network and wifi hardware solution most people use.
+* [https://uptime.kuma.pet/ Uptime Kuma] - Web UI that provides uptime status for stuff on your network
 === File sharing ===
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 * [https://kopia.io/ Kopia] - An easy-to-use backup tool for users
-* [https://www.borgbackup.org/ BorgBackup] - A more sysadmin backup tool designed to backup whole systems
+* [https://www.borgbackup.org/ BorgBackup] - A more sysadmin backup tool designed to back up whole systems
 === Photos ===
-* Immich - Basically a copy of Google Photos
+* [https://immich.app/ Immich] - Basically a copy of Google Photos
+=== Social media ===
+* [https://mastodon.social/ Mastodon] - Open source decentralized federated microblogging platform, it's not Twitter
+* [https://pixelfed.org/ Pixelfed] - Open source decentralized federated photo sharing platform, it's not Instagram
 === Smart home ===
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 ** [https://www.music-assistant.io/ Music Assistant] - Music library manager for your offline and online music sources
 * [https://mqtt.org/ MQTT] - A behind the scenes services needed by different home automation tools
-* [https://tasmota.github.io/docs/ Tasmota] - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI
+* [https://tasmota.github.io/docs/ Tasmota] - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using web UI
+* [https://frigate.video/ Frigate] - Security camera NVR with real-time object detection
+* [https://github.com/awawa-dev/HyperHDR HyperHDR] - Doing that thing where you put LEDs behind your TV
+===== Smart home hardware =====
+* [https://www.home-assistant.io/green/ Home Assistant Green] - A really affordable system to run Home Assistant, but it's not superfast and has limited add-on support
+* Zigbee sticks - Double check sticks against the supports sticks list for [https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha/#recommended-zigbee-radio-adapters-and-modules ZHA] or [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/guide/adapters/ Zigbee2MQTT]
+** [https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf Intel white paper on USB port interference] - Always use a 1+ ft USB extension cable for Zigbee USB sticks
+** [https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/ Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1] - No frills Zigbee stick
+** [https://smlight.tech/ SMLIGHT] - Zigbee USB sticks and network sticks
+** [https://sonoff.tech/product/gateway-and-sensors/sonoff-zigbee-3-0-usb-dongle-plus-p/ SONOFF P] and [https://sonoff.tech/product/gateway-and-sensors/sonoff-zigbee-3-0-usb-dongle-plus-e/ SONOFF E]
+* Zigbee devices
+** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=Aqara Aqara] - Budget Zigbee devices that mostly work fine without their hub
+** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=Philips Philips Hue] - What's considered the best fancy color lightbulbs
+** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=SONOFF SONOFF] - Everything
+** [https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#v=IKEA IKEA] - Dirt cheap
+* Wifi devices
+** [https://cloudfree.shop/ CloudFree] - Store offers a multitude of commercial devices that have been taken apart and pre-flashed with local only open source firmware
+** [https://www.athom.tech/ Athom] - Store with hardware made for FOSS firmware, <small>customer service is meh</small>
+** [https://apolloautomation.com/ Apollo Automation] - Designed for FOSS and Home Assistant hardware, air quality and presence detection sensors
+* Z-Wave
+** [https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/products/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-usb-stick-zst39? Zooz 800 USB stick] - Recommended Z-Wave stick
+* [https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/ Home Assistant Voice] - Open source hardware voice activated assistant replacement to Google Home or Amazon Alexa
+* [https://www.openevse.com/ OpenEVSE] - Open source hardware EV charger
+* [https://rainforestautomation.com/us-retail-store/eagle-3-energy-gateway-and-smart-home-hub/ Rainforest Eagle 3] - Hub to connect to your ComEd power meter that talks to HA
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 * [https://github.com/searxng/searxng SearXNG] - A free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
+=== Local AI LLM ===
+* [https://lmstudio.ai/ LM Studio] - A quick to get into local LLM inference server and desktop UI
+* [https://github.com/ollama/ollama Ollama] - Bare-bones easy to use local LLM inference server with an API
+* [https://openwebui.com/ Open WebUI] - Self-hosted web frontend for interacting with LLM APIs that are either in the cloud or locally hosted
+Productivity
+* [https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool LanguageTool] - Commercial with an open source version, proofreading in your browser
 === Email ===
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 * [https://nginxproxymanager.com/ Nginx Proxy Manager] - Securely expose your local services to the internet with the security of SSL
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+=== Not an overwhelming number of useful Linux commands ===
+* [https://phoenixnap.com/kb/apropos-linux apropos] - A quick search through descriptions of other commands to find what you need
+* [https://opensource.com/article/18/6/history-command history] - Show the last 100 commands you entered
+* [https://phoenixnap.com/kb/locate-command-in-linux locate] - Search for files
+* [https://medium.com/codex/understanding-su-su-sudo-i-and-sudo-s-in-linux-d26828fc14c sudo -s] - Instead of running 1 command as root, you can go into a root session until you type exit
+* [https://spin.atomicobject.com/htop-guide/ htop] - System monitor showing CPU and memory usage for each process
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