Electronics and such 2

If there's one thing that's good about living in 2020, it's that software for rolling your own service has never been better.

https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

Love this page. It's a treasure trove of software I'd love to install if I properly set up my own server. (Because you can't trust any service anymore to not track you or doxx you to the government, corporations, or to mobs.) There's going to be 2 possible uses. First would be personal file services to read\watch\stream things from. That would be ideal for a low power computer since it'd hardly get used and be for input\output. The 2nd one would be a "public" one that has communicating features and generic "cloud" services.

((There's also a list for sysadmins: https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin ))

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Private use:
Media server (Plex?)
E-Books (Calibre)
File Sharing (SFTP)

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Public use:

• Discord-like Instant Messenger
  Riot.IM (Self-hosted server)
  If I want to use basic IM, I can just use Telegram or TOX.
• Tiki
  Check out all these features. Wiki, Forum, Blog, Forum, RSS, file sharing, Survey\Poll, etc.
  Definitely getting this one.
• E-Books (Calibre or a derivative)
  While Tiki might be nice, I already have a multi-gigabyte book\comic part of my drive for Calibre.
• File Sharing (Temp File Share - End-to-End-Encryption)
• Email - Problem with this one is I keep hearing about how Email is a pain in the ass to setup and use from a sysadmin perspective.

• Media Streaming
  This one is going to be wild.

  First would be the video side of things, which is either going to be h.265 streaming over the internet (something that browsers aren't good at because of licensing issues even though it's VERY good at compressing video) either as a raw 1080p clip (net would be choked) or transcoded (which would spike CPU usage something fierce). So this either is going to have to be a restricted feature or only available via SFTP.

  Audio on the other hand is VERY forgiving because an MP3 or OGG file is fractionally tiny and there's no real licensing issues. The problem is "how do I stream this?" Radio station listening is... blech. So it'd have to be streaming from a list or playlist. That's the only way.

I've had some experience installing server software and the only thing I can so is "it's involved". You really have to learn how to use the command line, permissions, and all sorts of esoteric stuff. But it's gratifying.