Teleguard promises end-to-end, but I haven’t seen a proper security review of them.

I turn off so much crap as it is, and crank all animations down to 0.5 (I’d go lower but this is just fast enough to no have stutter). I don’t need iOS-slow animations that “look cool”, I got shit to do.

Blur is garbage I don’t need.

Fix the crappy space-wasting nonsense.

Google is refining animations, adding blur

How about refining UI control back to the user’s hand? Instead we have garbage that people with vision or motor-control challenges can’t use.

The thing is, this change isn’t new, it’s been coming for a while (as in years, it started with at least Android 13).

Though it’s weird, some apps still get full access, such as Resilio Sync, though other similar apps such as Nextcloud and Syncthing don’t.

I recently setup a phone and when installing Resilio it asked for permissions to the entire SD card, so clearly there’s still a mechanism, but only some apps are permitted to ask for it.

Something fishy going on.

As others have said, use tools like borg and restic.

Shop around for cloud storage with good pricing for your use-case. Many charge for different usage patterns, like restoring data or uploading.

Check out storj.io, I like their pricing - they charge for downloading/restore (IIRC), and I figure that’s a cost I can live with if I need to restore.

Otherwise I keep 3 local copies of data:

1 is live, and backed up to storj.io

2 is mirrored from 1 every other week

3 is mirrored from 1 every other week, opposite 2

This works for my use-case, where I’m concerned about local failures and mistakes (and don’t trust my local stores enough to use a backup tool), but my data doesn’t change a lot in a week. If I were to lose 1 week of changes, it would be a minor issue. And I’m trusting my cloud backup to be good (I do test it quarterly, and do a single file restore test monthly).

This isn’t an ideal (or even recommended approach), just works with the storages I currently have, and my level of trust of them.

I have no explanation. Really shocked me that idle was that low, and I ran the meter on it for a week with it mostly just sitting there, and some file copy action. I could see in the power chart when I copied files, then it would fall back to 12w. Nuts.

I have to make a config change soon (add a drive and a fan), I’ll put the meter back on for a week.

Because no one wanted to?

You haven’t, right? Why? As you said, you don’t have the programming skills (neither do I).

It’s always just that simple - someone with the expertise doesn’t feel like doing it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Sometimes, people like you and me get motivated enough to go learn how to do these things, or find people with the skills.

Notes of cherry and almond, hint of oak. 😜

Hell, using consumer grade, free tools (handbrake) I can convert a DVD to mkv and reduce the file size upwards of 75%, and still be perfectly viewable on a current 65" TV.

I can only imagine the capabilities of Google/YouTube. It would be fascinating to see a high level diagram of how they handle a video.

I run 5’s with Lineage. Because they’re so cheap I have 3, one for testing, one as a hot spare.

Still cost less than a new phone.

Shove your politics where the sun don’t shine.

Device Manager shows i7-7700, 3.6ghz, 8 cores

Maxes at 3gb 32gb of ram, unfortunately, since I run some vm’s on it.

Good to know! Wow, I’m impressed by the low power draw.

Thanks, I wanted to add a video card for conversion jobs, but didn’t think it had enough power.

“Who do you work for, Number 2!?”

Sounds like she virtualized and got her brother to host.😋

I have an older (2017) Dell SFF OptiPlex 7050 that idles about 12w, with 3 drives (each 1 TB, spinning disk).

It peaks about 80w when I’m doing conversions, but I can keep that down by limiting cpu usage for handbrake (it doesn’t convert faster above 4 cores anyway, just uses more power).

I was surprised by the low idle power, I would’ve been happy with upwards of 40w since my previous machine idled at 100w.

So I think very low idle is possible, I’m just not sure why this box idles so low.

Disks add wattage when running, but when idle use very little power, less than SSD.

Suprisingly hard drives often use less power than SSD because they can spin down, and because they use less power during writes than SSD.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/ssd-vs-hdd-we-know-about-speed-but-what-about-power-consumption

I’ve been using Blacklist for probably 10 years, recently switched to SpamBlocker. Wow, what a complex and flexible app.

I get no messages or calls I don’t want.

Combination of Macrodroid’s drawer feature and Jina Folders. Works pretty well.

I think the market for it really isn’t there for a few reasons.

Performance is questionable, depending on the apps. Android isn’t really a desktop (or even laptop) OS from a UI standpoint. Tied to this, Android apps aren’t designed around desktop use.

Then we have laptops that have come a very long way in the last ten years, where battery life now approaches tablet OS (my newest laptops run all day, which is what my iPad does if I use it all day like a laptop). Considering the battery life equivalence, I get a lot more functionality from a desktop OS per charge cycle than I do from a mobile OS (not by watts, but by how often I need to charge).

I used to take my iPad with me on trips when I needed a little more than phone functionality, but not desktop. Now my laptop is marginally larger and heavier than an iPad with a keyboard case, and it charges from the same USB C cable as my phone.

All this seems to be something this idea returns to every time it comes around. Having a single device sounds brilliant, but I’d have to carry a dock anyway, so there’s not really a benefit in the end, may as well carry a laptop too.