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.
No phone number needed. Can run directly on a non-phone server.
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.
The phone number part significantly degrades your privacy and security
Also the signal app depends on non free software blobs, which is a huge risk to security. Claiming that Signal is open source is disingenuous. Parts of it are open source. As a whole, it is not.