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

submitted 4 months 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] 64 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Immich! Backs up my phone pictures for my family with automatic backup through an easy app interface. Knowing my large album of photos on my phone won’t be tied to an endless growing subscription fees for…ever?!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Same!

Did not realize how good it is to have digital albums with the family! And also having a backup is great as well, for a peace of mind.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months 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] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What was disappointing about wallabag? I have an ebook reader, and Koreader has it integrated into it, and its great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I found the UI to be horrendous, and managing tags was very painful. During the time I was paying for the cloud-service, there wasn't any noticable development of the web-app, so I stopped using it. Mind you, this was pre-pandemic and things might have changed since then.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The one that was way more useful then expected is immich. I have over 100,000 photos I took during my life and it usually takes me DAYS to find a specific picture I need.

I installed immich and let it AI scan everything for a week or something. Now I can search for something specific like “it’s a black square in the middle of the photo and has a little knob on it” and it finds me the photo I need.

It’s also cool to see photos of people, organized by the individual by searching their name or clicking on their face.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is this local only? No clouds reported data?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Of course it is.

You can download different models as well. For me, without a GPU, searching for example 'cat' takes a few seconds, and it is not the most accurate, but still works OK.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Local only.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I've only just set it up, mainly for the facial recognition. I had no idea that it could do that type of search too. It's going to be really helpful with my faulty brain and not remembering words 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Paperless - Pay slips, Bank statements, MOT records, Insurance policies, User manuals, restaurant menus. All filed and searchable. Letters I get are photographed, uploaded and immediately disposed of, zero stress.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is the document exporter the only backup system? I'd want to connect it to a cloud backup somehow if I'm going to trust it with all my important stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Couldn't tell you, sorry. I have Paperless in it's own LXC (helper-script) which I 3-2-1 as a machine. Many duplicates, but they're only PDFs.

I can tell you I spent a small amount of time trying (and failing) to get paperless to save the files onto my NAS. I can also tell you, if I stretched up really tall I can just about scrape rock bottom when it comes to skills in this stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Could you elaborate a little on the LXC, please?

I was thinking about looking into Paperless after seeing it gleefully mentioned so much in this post, but lack of easy/accessible backups seems strange for something you wanna use to eventually destroy your only other copy of it (the physical letter).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

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

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