Well more that when it does work you don’t know for sure which apps are fully backed up.

Go through each app and export its data, then transfer those files off the phone.

Testing if it works is a bit of a pain though, because you need to have a wiped phone to restore the backup on to make sure each app restores properly.

Take backups.

1 or 2 copies of something is not a backup, 3+ is a backup. And test them too, make sure they work.

Yes, set the external library bind mount in the docker compose project to :ro (read only).

The other issue is if you’re offline with no internet service and you come back online, you may not ever see any messages sent during that time.

The biggest downside with P2P on a mobile device is it needs to run in the background all the time, and constantly uses small amounts of data making connections.

For me it’s too much time investment, I don’t want to tinker with my OS. The fact that it’s so common to screw up a system that atomic distros are becoming much more popular is a good example, I want an OS that doesn’t get screwed up in the first place.

It feels like the general consensus is VPN=malicious rather than "VPN=“this guy is just trying to protect his privacy”.

VPNs are used for malicious purposes. After all if a VPN keeps no logs, doesn’t track usage, and lets one pay with alternate currency, why wouldn’t someone use one if they were wanting to commit a crime?

For any service it’s a battle between avoiding blocking actual users, and keeping out the bots and malicious users.

A VPN with a paid dedicated IP may help, or a DIY VPN hosted on a VPS somewhere, but I’d argue it’s not really any better than just using your ISP at that point since all your traffic comes from your own unique VPN IP.

Keepass is very good. Bitwarden just has a server side so it’s easier to set up and use for multiple devices.

Cryptomator is the easiest to use option IMO, and it supports windows, linux, macos, android, and ios.

It also doesn’t use a giant blob of a single file like Veracrypt does so it can be used on cloud storage easily.

The more techy alternative that’s harder to use is rclone mount + crypt.

Makes you wonder why there isn’t just a button to translate when needed.

I have my webmail and homeassistant pinned, otherwise it’s whatever I’m actively looking at.

I don’t understand why this stuff isn’t enabled by default on Linux, it’s such a detriment to new users when super basic features don’t work out of the box.

Nothing, secure boot should work fine, no reason to disable TPM.

You know you can install any software you want on any distro right?

There are multiple apps from various devs that all use the Keepass file format, so they are all compatible.

Generally I don’t think Chinese tech is really any worse than “US” (aka; made in china by a US company) tech.

The software running on phones and stuff is likely worse though, some things should be avoided.

Probably KDE, it’s the most ‘complete’ feeling to me with settings and GUI for most things.

One option is running changedetection.io on your server, it works for basically anything since it’s actually loading a full web page and checking for changes.

Nice since it seems like everything these days requires apis and all kinds of BS to use in an app.