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[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Makes sense. The videos I saw about setting it up mentioned a headless chrome browser. But I'm new to self-hosting and didn't know if it had to be chrome or if you could use a better option, since you can use an OLLAMA instead of chatgpt for example

[–] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 7 points 3 days ago

@ItJustDonn @486 Hang on, this runs chromium as root? That seems like a _really_ bad idea. And unnecessary, since there's a hoarder user installed later in the script...

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep/blob/main/hoarder-linux.sh

Screenshot from that shell script, showing that it creates a systemd service called hoarder-browser.service that runs as the root user, and spawns a headless chromium process.