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What is a service you host you never knew you needed? (k.fe.derate.me)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think everybody on here is constantly keeping an eye out for what to host next. Sometimes you spinup something which chugs along nicely but sometimes you find out you've been missing out.

For me it's not very refreshing or new: Paperless-ngx. Never thought I would add all my administration to it. But it's great. I probably can't find the thing I need, but I should have a record of every mail or letter I've gotten. Close second is Wanderer. But I would like to have a little bit more features like adding recorded routes to view speed and compare with previous walks. But that's not what it is intended for.

What is that service for you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

When I was looking into matrix bridges I heard a bunch of stories about people getting their accounts blocked after using them through the bridges. Is this still an issue?

[–] Mikina 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks for the report. Do you use the whatsapp bridge? If so, how did you set it up? Emulator?

[–] Mikina 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I use Pixel with GrapheneOS as my phone, and I just have a separate profile that only has WhatsApp installed and nothing else. Since the profiles are completely separated, it doesn't have access to anything else I do on the phone and it's not running in the background (the profiles are basically sandboxed fresh slates, and switching it can be set-up to behave in a same way as basically turning off the phone as far as the profile is concerned).

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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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