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.
Does the signal bot need its own phone number?
Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.
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
I don’t think the backend my code depends on supports this yet, but good to know it might well in the future.