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Please forgive any typos, my brian is still very much recovering. I'm not promoting anything cause nothing I've made yet is really worth much to anyone but my self,and everything is far from polished. I'm just sharing what I'm doing. In November '24, I had a mid level stroke. I've had issues with motor skills, headaches, and short term memory, but for the most part I'm doing quite well. For the last 6-8 months, I build a home server, (AMD 3700x, 64GB of RAM, 6TBNvME, and 2x 12TB HDD, old NVIDIA 2060. I setup up Jellyfin, ripped our 400ish Blu Rays, DVDs, and TV Shows. Setup Navidrone, and ripped our CDs, Home Assistant, AudoBookshelf, ConvertX, MeTube, and several other apps mostly discovered here. I also wrote my own app to track our large physical Media Collection that has a few api calls for pulling info about the items., a dashboard app in the style of the old iGoogle, and I've started working on 2 other apps, one to track medical information like blood pressure, glucose, doc appts, care team, medications, etc. The other app is for TTRPG GMs to run games that will basically be a digital GM Screen with a dozen or so tools.

I was a web developer for 20 years before the stroke so I had some previous entry level experience with this type of stuff, but not on this level. Mine was more for like corporate websites. My doctor believes this process has indeed sped up my recovery significantly. So this is just a post to say thanks for this community that has given me tons of ideas for things to try.

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 95 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

My brother....I empathize with your situation. About 25 years ago, I fell from 2 floors up, landed on my skull on a concrete pad and lay there for an undetermined amount of time before someone found me. I suffered a TBI that has gifted me a seizure condition as well as other mental/neuro issues. The right, frontal lobe of my brain looks like a piece of wadded up, cotton candy. I've come a long way and I have far to go. I am fortunate and thankful to be alive regardless the situation.

and short term memory [loss]

I spent a week in the hospital after I had a seizure and it wiped my memory. I didn't know who I was, how to do even simple tasks, or who anyone else was either.

I use selfhosting and computers in general, to do the same thing as you. It keeps me thinking and trying to solve problems. I have problems expressing my thoughts, but the folks here have been patient with all of my silly questions and the occasional inability to grasp the information being presented here at lemmy/selfhosted. I don't watch TV, but I've found structure in reading, and I read a ton of info. I'm more into IT (obviously), history, etc but no fiction.

I truly wish you the very best bro. If I can ever be of assistance, I'm usually around somewhere. We can pair your brain with my .25 brain, and fix something. LOL