I value having ownership of my devices, and you’re right being able to take real backups where I could completely factory reset my phone and have every app and setting loaded just how it was previously in a matter of minutes. Among so many other things root can do.

I prioritize control and ownership over unsubstantiated fears. With ownership also comes responsibility and I gladly embrace it.

Lmao, you even admit hoe dumb it is with the system tray. And you’re wrong, I can have XFCE exactly hoe I want it in a matter of 15 minutes, using only the settings apps, and it will absolutely dog walk the workflows of GNOME.

You do realize that it actually does a lot more than that right which is what makes it a proper backup system, right? If all it did was sync a copy of data then it wouldn’t be a proper backup. As I already pointed out, so let me know if I need to slow it down further for you.

You can’t connect it temporarily?

My TV stays on the same input.

Why do so many people do this incorrectly. Unless you are actually serving a public then you don’t need to open anything other than a WireGuard tunnel. My phone automatically connects to WireGuard as soon as I disconnect from my home WiFi so I have access to every single one of my services and only have to expose one port and service.

If you are going through setting up caddy or nginx proxy manager or anything else and you’re not serving a public… you’re dumb.

What kind of shitty TV takes 30s to turn on? Ive never seen one take that long. Smart functions have literally nothing to do with how fast they turn on. In fact a lot of smart TVs, especially with Roku built in, don’t even really ever power down completely, and when you press power the screen is on and ready almost instantly.

I mean… just don’t connect it.

I also think Android has the best apps… SmartTube, Tivimate, and S0undTV can’t be beat and have no good alternatives on other platforms. I run 4k firesticks that I blocked from updates long ago so I could have my own launcher/home screen instead of the ad riddled default one, but want to upgrade eventually. Been wondering lately how well AndroidTV on x86 runs… couldn’t find anything on YouTube.

A copy of data isn’t really a backup, that’s also why RAID isn’t a backup. You should have proper backups with something like borg or restic.

Nah, you’re getting a leaf, not a full plant. A leaf is fucking worthless. If the leaves had value, they would sell them.

I mean, who cares if your boot loader is locked? I have ran unlocked since cyanogen mod days and never had a single issue. I’d rather have a better phone and root tbh

No thanks, I want root… LineageOS ftw

iOS users think the same way born from ignorance. But hey, if you don’t mind inefficient workflows and an extreme lack of customization to fix that, then GNOME works.

What is it?

Oh, I get it! I just have to reprogram my brain to the GNOME way instead of the much more efficient way that I actually want!

Syncthing-fork has been recommended over Syncthing for the last few years. That’s what I’ve been running for about that long with no issues. I like having access to a copy of the actual files on the NAS too which a borg backup doesn’t provide unless you do an additional borg mount. Syncthin-fork does other things too, light keeping a keepass database synced on devices. But yeah, nothing syncthing can do over a scheduled rsync script… I just have not found that to be as reliable on Android as it is in Linux.

Syncthin-fork has never stopped working for me. I would notice because it also puts my pictures into a folder that gets read by immich and I often check immich to look at my photos. I run immich differently than intended where I don’t do the photo backups with it. I only use it as a gallery client on my existing organized directory structure of images. It only has read only access.

sudo find from /

I like using syncthing. It syncs all my apps that are backed up with neobackup, my pictures, files etc. to my NAS. Then my NAS runs borg on that directory as well as all the other important NAS directories to make the legit backups.

I have termux installed but I honestly rarely use it. Hate typing on the phone in the terminal… if I need to do it then I’ll just adb connect from my computer and do it from there on a real keyboard.

Kyle is the epitome of stubbornness and not bending and breaking. We need an OC and we need to improve our oline.