I use Google sheets on my personal projects.

• tracking expenses
• tracking my ride logs from my ev

Google app script pickup email received from banks and update the transaction automatically. I modify it using web based form of needed.

The ev company has api. It will be called on periodic basis to get the ride details and update the sheets. I use telegram api to interact, by triggering the api webhook, getting charts, etc.,

Initially I setup OCR to extract the ride information, so the process was like

• send an image that has ride details to a telegram bot
• the bot saves the image in Google drive
• the image would be opened in docs
• the text would get extracted and stored in Google sheets as data
• edits can be done using telegram webapp
• sheets provide charts for analysis
• built a process using sheets to handle telegram bot for maintaining users, approvals, etc.,

It would be hard if I have used any other services… setting up OCR preparing charts etc.,

I’m from India and there are 18 government approved languages. I know only one and I feel difficulties in finding the right content in English or in my mother tongue.

I bought during the sale. 4 keys for $50.

Try to add 100+ things to make it very big project, then dropped without even completing 10% of to-do list.

Eventually you get a better idea to start the same project from scratch, then drop it.

Mildly infuriating because of the volume bar in the screenshot. You could have taken screenshot from the recents.

Wireguard + pihole?

What I feel is that you need do is to compare the cost of power supply vs hardware then choose whichever is cheaper.

A good read about self hosted email servers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32715437

If you are going to use it within your family members it will be fine, but not with other users who uses corporate provided email services.

An app designed by US company doesn’t represent anything related to security.

The founder of telegram always complains that the FBI has access to signal, apple and other related chat apps.

He suggests to use private chat, if it is confidential. The message transactions happens between peer to peer and it doesn’t go to the server. He was claiming all the privacy feature that you get from signal is the almost same as private chat. Signal stil uses the server.

My account was compromised once, though I have 2FA enabled. I assume that I was accessing my account from a browser on a windows pc, it had virus but not 100% sure. Someone was able to access it, change my name send multiple crypto related links to users in bulk.

It contained years of chat history with my wife. I was able to recover the account. But I deleted all the chat history.

I still use it to get alerts from various automated scripts I use, mostly for the bots with free API access. No personal data go in there.

The mistake might be from my side. But if someone takes over your account, you lose everything.