What is a service you host you never knew you needed?
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I'm hosting it also, and the only regret is no android app, so don't appear as a "share" possibility. But definitly perfect on PC browser
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Kavita for my ebook collection—mostly tabletop RPGs, but some comics and sci fi as well.
I don’t actually use the web interface that often. I add books to my Kavita library, then scan the OPDS feed into my scratch-my-own-itch mobile app, Bookoscope, and download whatever I want to read onto my tablet from there.
Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?
Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?
Try KOReader. It's mainly for e-ink devices (initially, Kobo devices) but it handles PDFs better than most applications and gives you various options to address them.
It's still not going to do miracles on smaller screens like phones, but I use a Kobo tablet/ereader and it works very well there.
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Watch out to enable "keep on delete" features. I didn't do that and didn't see that gigabytes of personal photos got deleted which I had to recover from an old backup. Still don't know how it happened as I only found out a few weeks after the fact.
Sync is not backup! If there's a software bug or a wrong setting sync can delete your files. Syncthing is pretty mature so I doubt this was a Syncthing bug, however you shouldn't only trust Syncthing. I'm doing btrfs snapshots weekly and delete them after three years for important folders nowadays.
Also the "auto normalize" option (true by default and only shown in advanced settings) can mess-up with your source files. Mouting source files read-only won't work either as it is creating files in source folders.
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Actual Budget a selfhosting budget software. It helps me keep track of my finances
couldn't find it please provide a link thanks
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couldn't find it please provide a link thanks
nvm i find it thanks again
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I've been using it for almost a year by now, and so far I didn't have any problems. I've not considered that problem though, so it might be happening and I was just lucky.
Thanks for the report. Do you use the whatsapp bridge? If so, how did you set it up? Emulator?
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Once in a while discord signs me out and I have to do a bunch of extra sign-in steps on the official client. But otherwise I have discord, WhatsApp, Google voice, Google chat, Google messages (sms), Facebook, telegram, signal.
All the mautrix bridges are will made and robust
Good to know, thank you. How did you set up the whatsapp bridge?
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Good to know, thank you. How did you set up the whatsapp bridge?
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Thanks, but I mean how did you set up the external client for it? Did you have a spare phone to use, or did you set up an Android VM?
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Thanks, but I mean how did you set up the external client for it? Did you have a spare phone to use, or did you set up an Android VM?
It's just from my phone. I have all the notifications off from the original app
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It's just from my phone. I have all the notifications off from the original app
Ah got it, thanks. It's not an ideal setup tbh, it'd be great to be able to delete the WhatsApp app from my phone, but better than nothing...
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Thanks for the report. Do you use the whatsapp bridge? If so, how did you set it up? Emulator?
I use Pixel with GrapheneOS as my phone, and I just have a separate profile that only has WhatsApp installed and nothing else. It's not running in background, so it's disabled all the time, and since the profiles are completely separated, it doesn't have access to anything else I do on the phone.
When the bridge asks me to log in again or refresh a session, I simply switch to the second profile for a minute and re-log in. I've heard iIt might be possible to set up an emulator and leave it running on the server, but that felt like too much effort.
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I use Pixel with GrapheneOS as my phone, and I just have a separate profile that only has WhatsApp installed and nothing else. It's not running in background, so it's disabled all the time, and since the profiles are completely separated, it doesn't have access to anything else I do on the phone.
When the bridge asks me to log in again or refresh a session, I simply switch to the second profile for a minute and re-log in. I've heard iIt might be possible to set up an emulator and leave it running on the server, but that felt like too much effort.
Understood, thanks. Seems like most people are doing it this way, keeping the app installed. Do you have to restore a backup when you re-log in? I'm always losing messages when that happens
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Watch out to enable "keep on delete" features. I didn't do that and didn't see that gigabytes of personal photos got deleted which I had to recover from an old backup. Still don't know how it happened as I only found out a few weeks after the fact.
Sync is not backup! If there's a software bug or a wrong setting sync can delete your files. Syncthing is pretty mature so I doubt this was a Syncthing bug, however you shouldn't only trust Syncthing. I'm doing btrfs snapshots weekly and delete them after three years for important folders nowadays.
Thanks for the heads-up!
