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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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[โ€“] tigerhawkvok@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not as of a few weeks ago

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/11197884108826-Phone-Numberless-Registration-for-Android-beta

It needs to be Android with Google Play Services for the registration for a variety of payment related reasons, but they want to eventually remove that tie

[โ€“] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

I don't think the backend my code depends on supports this yet, but good to know it might well in the future.