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?

  • Synestine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Unpopular opinion from what I’ve seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.

    I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.

    We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku’s. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Jellyseer

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

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        They do different things.

        Jellyfin plays the media, jellyseer lets me see what films and tv shows are upcoming and select it to be downloaded when I get some time.

        • zoomzoom@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Can still request it without an arr stack - it just won’t download it :) Can then buy the Blu Rays and rip. Also jellyseer has a watchlist you can add stuff to to keep track

  • bedlam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    https://mealie.io/

    Recipe manager and meal planner which can pull recipes from the web. I started using it after a few recipes on sites disappeared. My families most used app (besides plex).

    • Anonymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I landed on Tandoor. I had a bunch of recipes on one of those web sites and they switched to a subscription model and locked me out of my recipes. I don’t remember why I chose Tandoor over Mealie, but having full ownership over my recipes is freeing.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks, this looks awesome, last one I tried was tandoor but didn’t really liked it, the import/export capabilities of this one make it a lot more interesting for me, to ensure I can recover the recipes or build them into markdown files if I ever want to migrate away from it.

    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      been loving mealie too! tied in with home assistant for shopping list and the meal planning calendar has helped us cook more together and stop spending so much on takeout!

    • Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOP
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      2 months ago

      I didn’t know if this was something I was missing, but man this could be my new number 1. The import function is really great. I’ve already added a lot of recipes. Thanks!

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      https://mealie.io/

      I havent done much with it other than get all our paper recipes into it and added some via import. I am looking forward to it as its my next project now that photos are done.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m hodsting my own Matrix server with WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and Messenger bridge. I have all my IMs in one app, don’t have to install spyware on my phone, and I can make bots that troll annoying people that message me on any platform.

    Hosting it was super simple, thanks to the Ansible project that’s extremely robust and well done, I literally just got a hosting, domain amd changed like 5 config values to enable the bridges I wanted, gave it an IP and ssh key, and ran it. And if I need to update, I literally “just update” (it’s all wrapped up into “just” tool), and it eve handles cases where I didn’t update for a while, failing graciously and telling me what I need to do maually, usually just rename some config values.

    I wholly recommend it. You probably wont convince your friends to switch from <insert app here>, and this is the best compromise.

    I’m using a small instance on Hetzner, for 6$ a month. You could in theory get a free oracle cloud instance for it, but I didn’t manage to get one.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Would you recommend the Discord bridge? I’ve always wanted to install that as well. Is there anything I want to know before putting in the effort to install and configure it?

      • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        As far as I know the Discord bridge has some limitations, the major one being that IIRC it doesn’t atually support calls. But just for chatting across servers it has worked well for me.

        There’s also the fact that you have to either trust the project with your password (as in, the the bridfe adds a matrix bot that runs on your server, but needs your pssword), since I think it uses the web version in the background (but then you can also use it for DMs and any server), or set up a bot on the discord server you want to bridge, which obviously cant be done if you’re not an admin. It’s a foss project, but there’s always a small risk of it gping rogue.

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I think I’d be fine with that. I’m using lots of Free Software projects, have Linux on my computers, wifi router, use random projects and Fediverse platforms … So far every time one of my passwords got leaked it was some breach of a proprietary platform (last.fm, Facebook, …) while the Free Software has served me extraordinary well. Usually it even limits the insatiable hunger for private data those commercial platforms have…

          • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Yeah, that’s my experience as well. In addition to being lazy with updating, so if some kind of supply chain attack happens, I usually sorts itself out before I get to updating :D

            But I did limit my browser extensions, after I a cause with Nano Defender taught me a lesson - it was a mildly popular anit-anti-adblock killer that worked where other adblocks were detected, but the developer sold the extension to a company that turned it into a info-stealer malware and pushed an update through chrome store, which got accepted and propagated, and some of my social network sessions got compromised. So, I just stick to more popular projects where something like this shouldn’t happen, and don’t use random extensions.

      • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
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        2 months ago
        1. A puppeting (personal account) Discord bridge basically requires your own homeserver. You are trusting the homeserver owner / bridge host fully with your Discord account.
        2. It is technically against Discord ToS. While I don’t think anyone’s been banned yet, several people have started receiving warnings that they “spammed”, most of them after sending an attachment. These warnings are on your account for 2 years, and could contribute to an account ban.
        3. Voice chat is not, and probably will not be supported.
        4. Do NOT bridge a “large” server. You are essentially re-hosting the chats, which can be extremely taxing for large and active Discord servers.

        I use mine for a single channel in a “medium-size” server (~2k people), a friend group server, DMs, and a few channels that follow a bunch of announcement channels on other servers.

        • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Those are certainly valid points. But do I want to care about that? Honest question… Discord also doesn’t care about my privacy. Or making the internet a better place. So I think -in turn- I feel quite alright to ignore whatever client they like me to use. And their exact ToS.

          What’s with the “taxing for large and active Discord servers”? Does it lead to issues if I’m not using their Electron app or website? I can’t imagine where this additional strain on their servers would come from?! I run my own homeserver, by the way. So I shouldn’t weigh down on anyone else’s server…

          • stalfoss@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            When you use the official discord client, it only sends to your device whatever chat channel you have open at the time, and when you click on a different channel, it just downloads the last 20 messages, and downloads more when you scroll etc. If you bridge a discord server to a matrix server, it sends all of the contents of all of the channels in real time across. If the server had 50 channels, bridging it to matrix would be the equivalent of you having 50 official clients open, one to each channel. Hence the additional load on discord’s side to send you a lot more data than they usually would.

            (Disclaimer: this is all conjecture based on a general understanding of how the systems work, I could be getting some details wrong)

      • projectmoon@forum.agnos.is
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        2 months ago

        @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de which discord bridge? For Matrix? The one that operates as a Discord bot works perfectly. Don’t know about the ones that want your login token.

          • projectmoon@forum.agnos.is
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            2 months ago

            @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de no. I use the app service one. It works well, but it’s basically for bridging public channels. The Mautrix bridges all work very well. I’ve used the Facebook one in the past. It’s just the limits those platforms put on the bridge (e.g. banning or locking account) that can be a problem. If your bridge is connecting from the same place as you normally connect to Discord from, you should be fine.

            • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Thx. So far the mautirx ones have worked flawlessly for me. I got blocked once, years ago by WhatsApp when I first set it up. No issues after that, so I’m not really afraid of getting banned. And I’m not planning to use the apps or website much after I got the bridge running. That is if it offers all the features and I don’t have a reason anymore to log in myself…

          • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I use mautrix/discord, it can work in both puppeting (sign into your account) mode and relay (bot account with webhooks) mode.

    • andscape@feddit.itEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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?

      • cerothem@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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

      • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        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.

        • andscape@feddit.itEnglish
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          1 month ago

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

          • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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            1 month ago

            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.

    • Guadin@k.fe.derate.meOP
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      2 months ago

      You’ve just made me waste the next 2 days, because this sounds great! Only thing I’m a bit hesitant about is trusting all bridge makers. I’m a bit more aware that I use a lot of FOSS where it could be easy for the dev’s to just go rogue. But that’s still better than giving it away to some closed source company.

      • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        WhenI was setting it up, it took me only like two hours tops. The ansible project is well documented, has a clear setup guide, and the process is really just getting server with ssh access, changing DNS, changing around 5 values in the ansible config and running it.

    • anytimesoon@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      How do you get around the requirement to run the official app somewhere?

      I run a WhatsApp and signal bridge, but not recommend running the official app on a phone

      • Mikina@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yeah, that part about WhatsApp is annoying. I just have a spearate profile on Graphene that has only WhatsApp installed, and whenever it wants me to refresh a session I just switch to the profile and log in.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        2 months ago

        WhatsApp disconnects you if you don’t open the official app every 14 days or so. So you definitely need it. I run it on an old tablet. It’s supposed to run in a virtual machine (running Android) as well.

    • stetech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Same! Lots of good stuff that’s been mentioned so far, so much to look up and into :D

  • Feddinat0r@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    PaperlessNGX Syncthing

    Paperless is rEally awesome… Scan to folder, it will automatically be sorted and categorized, full text search and one neat thing: It just stores the pdf in subfolders which makes backup also usefull without paperless

    • stetech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If you don’t mind me asking, how/on which criteria does auto-sort and -categorization work? Scanning file name and contents? But then you’d have to pre-define some sort of keywords, no?

      • Feddinat0r@feddit.org
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        2 months ago

        Yes, you have to set attributes and clients. First documents you have to set everything yourself but it gets usefull really fast. I just scan a letter, and look througout the day if it was correct recognized and maybe correct it

      • Obelix@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s actually quite simple - not sure how it does work under the hood, but take a look at your documents. Every insurance, employer or company has its own letterhead with logo, contact information and legalese. You just tell paperless on one document “hey, that is my insurance, please tag everything like this as insurance” and it will do that.

      • needanke@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        You can predefine keywords/phrases, yes. But there are many other options. You can tag different documents based on how they wherer ingressed (which e-Mail they came/were sent to from for example). I have it set up so that my scanner has a few different quick action buttons which atomatically upload the documents into different folders (think bills, helthcare, bank, etc.) Then paperless tags and sorts them based on those folders.

        I also does machine-learning when enabled which works ok in my experience.

    • bedlam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I second paperless-ngx. I’ve gotten rid of almost all paper docs, just scan everything in. It makes taxes so much easier because I can easily filter year to year for comparisons.

  • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    https://ntfy.sh/

    Easily set up, and easily attached to other things. Simple notifications about whatever is needed, like service health or updates, new posts on public platforms, etc. A simple curl is plenty to send and receive notifications, and it works on Android without requiring FCM (Google infrastructure).

  • NeatoBuilds@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    FreshRSS, i had it installed and setup with a fee feeds for over a year and only like this month has it become my daily read, i can get almost everything in there to just read through while I drink my coffee, sites I bookmarked but never go to can now come to me.

    Also with ‘five filters full text rss’ to get all the images in the feed

    • 💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Love FreshRSS. It really is something that I didn’t know I needed. I often switch RSS apps, and it allows for seemless transitions.

    • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Would you mind elaborating a bit? I’ve been looking into good rss solutions lately and blogs without a feed were where I got stuck. How do you use five filters? How do the two components work together?

      • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Here’s a short blog post that summarizes how to use Full-Text RSS with FreshRSS. It’s a bit of a pain to add new feeds but it makes for a smooth experience afterwards.

        Otherwise, you could always just use RSS clients that have the ability to fetch full articles, Read You on Android and Fluent Reader on desktop both can do this.

        • NeatoBuilds@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That plus a browser extension that finds the right rss feed for you like get rss feed url on firefox.

          I copy the rss with the extension
          Then I paste that into five filters
          Use that to give it to fresh rss which will get me a nice looking post with images and text

  • needanke@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

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