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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] 39 points 2 days ago (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm really fond of readeck. After being dissapointed with Pocket and Wallabag, I went with omnivore until they pulled a skiff. Out of all the FOSS read-it-later solutions - it was a very even tie between Shiori and readeck, and I went with the latter since it supports highlights.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

FYI, the repo has been moved and the link is outdated

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I usually convert pdfs to epub if its something I actually need to read and not just scan/browse. Often I would bother to even edit the epub in Sigil to fix any problems with the conversion.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Pair Drop

Quickly send files, paste images/text snippets between devices.

I'm using the older Snapdrop (which PD was forked from) with some patches I made to:

  • Work behind Authelia for SSO + 2FA
  • Use the display name provided by Authelia instead of the random usernames it gives out by default
  • Send transfers over the internet without dealing with the temporary "rooms" that Pairdrop uses (it's behind Authelia, so only authorized users can get to it).

It has 100% replaced emailing things to myself or shuffling files to/from Nextcloud. I probably use it to send text (URLs, clipboard contents, etc) to/from my phone as much as I use it for sending files back and forth.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

KDE Connect masterrace represent!

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

I just setup Pairdrop on my home server. Holy crap it's amazing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Nice! Yeah, I've been a big fan of it. Planning to eventually replace my custom Snapdrop with Pairdrop since they've made quite a few other improvements.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://radicale.org is taking care of our address books, shared calendars for the family, todos and notes, all with one Backend but many different clients on different operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For low end dum-dums like me, https://sabre.io/baikal/ is a simpler, but very stable caldav solution. I bet Radicale has more features, but did I mention being low end? 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Jellyseer

Even though I don't have it hooked into an arr stack it is still useful for what is upcoming.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

discord bot for my families group chat server. I know it doesn't really mesh well with the mentality of selfhosting but it works for us.
I'm able to do silly stuff like each person getting a 'score' that gets taken down or up when they say something good/bad and people react to it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I have so many shitty little discord bots I've tossed together, I love self hosting them lol

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bump and definitely saving this thread!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A clone of 12ft.io but the old version before they got into beef with the New York Times and kneecapped it. It doesn’t work on every single article with a paywall but it works on the overwhelming majority (including New York Times articles)

And it doesn’t really count because I knew I’d use it but komga+komf+fmd2. I list it though because I didn’t realize I’d use this stack so much. I can now read with my phone, my laptop, my ereader, etc. tachiyomi/mihon works, reading progress is synced, and I never have to visit one of those garbage manga aggregation sites ever again

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Man, I read the title and wanted to commebt paperless ngx before reading your post.

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