What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution?

3 days ago by hansolo to c/selfhosted

I'm self hosting on an old laptop, and I'm a convert for life. Self-hosting is amazing. Looking for other people's weirdest examples of what they're doing as inspiration.

My example, I recently set up a grammar script, where I have a couple 8b LLMs and an html landing page. I upload a doc and it corrects grammar and highlights changes it made, or just proofreads and I make changes manually. I can upload a novel before bed, and have suggestions based on specific writing styles in the morning. All local, perfectly suited for my own work.

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Flamekebab 25 points 3 days ago

I've written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It's for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. The images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a "view once" image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.

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webghost0101 9 points 3 days ago

Does the signal bot need its own phone number?

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Flamekebab 10 points 3 days ago

Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.

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moldy_rice 4 points 2 days ago

God that sucks.

Why not use SimpleX or Wire or Matrix?

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Flamekebab 1 point 2 days ago

What would be the advantage?

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moldy_rice 2 points 2 days ago

No phone number needed. Can run directly on a non-phone server.

Also more secure and trustworthy because it's open source.

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Flamekebab 1 point 2 days ago

Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.

But Signal is open source..?

Getting a phone number was relatively cheap and easy, so for a one-off implementation, Signal was an easy choice as it's what many friends and family already use.

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Arda 1 point 2 hours ago

Isn't just the client open source

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