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What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

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  • C [email protected]

    https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/go/setup.html?bridge=whatsapp

    Or if you prefer docker

    https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/general/docker-setup.html?bridge=whatsapp

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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?

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      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

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        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?

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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.

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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.

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            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.

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              Thanks for the heads-up!

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