Self-Host Weekly (27 June 2025)

Weekly Highlights

Readers above the age of 30 will undoubtedly recognize the name PewDiePie, a popular YouTuber predating the era of brainrot and skibidi. This week, he released a new video titled I'm DONE with Google – an overview of his recent de-Googling in which he cites privacy and control as the major drivers behind jumping ship (despite the video being hosted on YouTube).

Donning a tinfoil hat for the first few minutes, he delves into the topic of self-hosting about halfway through the video (which currently sits at 2.5M views) and references popular apps like Bitwarden, Vaultwarden (which the video's captions transcribe as Volta Warden), Joplin, FileBrowser, and Nextcloud – all of which he hosts via a Raspberry Pi 5 and Steam Deck. It's an interesting watch and will almost certainly foster broader interest in self-hosting for a new demographic.

In unrelated news, if you're mourning the passing of Windows' blue screen of death or the recent retirement of Readarr, consider meditating on one of the several zen-named projects that crossed my desk this week:

• Zendo (task manager)
• Zendown (Note-taking)
• Zen Notes (Note-taking)
• ZenBox (Encrypted vaults)

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud

Discover the Microsoft 365 alternative by Nextcloud and IONOS: the Nextcloud Workspace office suite, launching in the course of 2025.

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MongoDB Launches an Open Source Real-Time Secret Scanner

MongoDB’s new tool quickly finds secrets in your code.

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Next iteration of our Voice Assistant is here - Voice chapter 10

This new tool brings fast, local speech processing to low-end hardware, along with some useful new voice and AI features

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Tailnet Lock is generally available, have complete control over your tailnet

Tailnet Lock lets customers ensure every node on the tailnet is signed by a set of admin-controlled keys before being granted any network connectivity.

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Content Spotlight

Meet Metadata Remote, a self-hosted web interface for manually updating and managing audio file metadata. With Metadata Remote, users can easily connect to and tag their music collections with suggestions from MusicBrainz directly from a web interface and without the clunky-ness of existing popular tools. Features include smart suggestions, undo/redo operations, bulk operations, advanced album art management, keyboard shortcuts, and more.

Metadata Remote can be easily installed via Docker and doesn't require any additional containers for deployment.

Links: Source Code

Videos and Podcasts

• What I Actually Run in My Homelab – 2025 Self-Hosted Stack | DB Tech
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Command Line Corner

Use history > commands.txt to save the terminal's command history directly to a file:

$ history > commands.txt
$ cat commands.txt
  1008 ps aux | grep node
  1009 docker ps
  1010 contrab -l
  1011 node -v
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