Tried it but couldn’t get the Linux client to connect to it no matter what I tried. I went back to NextCloud. But as I only ever used the file sync I ultimately switched to Seafile

I don’t do a full system backup, just data I need. I use restic to backup to B2 storage. As for docker data and databases I have a script that brings down the containers, runs a sqldump (or db type equivalent) into a tar.bz file and that gets backed up before bringing the containers back up. I used to run a Borg backup to a local drive and then rclone that to B2 so I have live data, local data, and remote. But these days I just back up remote and suck up the egress costs if needed.

Librewolf on desktop and ironfox on mobile. The prior for over a year and the latter a few months. Occasionally need to use something else on desktop that needs webgl or similar. I don’t want to change librewolf setting so I use something else. Usually a work related thing anyway

I recently made the switch myself. I do use multiple profiles but I don’t think it’s required for me. I was curious to see how it all works. I may end up switching to a work profile instead. I have google play on my main profile mostly for notifications for WhatsApp etc. A banking profile so that banking details are isolated, and anoyher profile for apps I need that I don’t use often and prefer to not have in my main. In a lot of videos its advsed to not use profiles to begin with as I causes a lot of friction and that makes adoption harder. You can always begin using profiles later on.

I am not logged into GPS and it only has network permissions. I connect via NextDNS and there is so little background traffic in thw logs, it’s a refreshing sight.

I have yet to find anything I could do on iOS that i can’t on Graphene. I install most apps via obtainium and the other few that I can’t via aurora store. I use OSS apps whenever possible.

You might have luck at 720 pier

I did give it a go but had trouble getting it work properly. I deployed via docker compose. The Nextcloud or owncloud clients didn’t seem to work with it unfortunately.

Good point. I will make that move

That was one reason I procrastinated so long about moving. But I figured I’d take the plunge and see how I get on

None of the activity looks hugely out of place for opening a pdf. My advice would be to take a known safe pdf, upload that to virustotal and compare the activity results and see how different they are if at all.

There might be differences based on pdf content so best to try and find a similar pdf (images, urls, etc)

Not much. Probably just support for some hardware that needs drivers like my 3d printer. But that’s what Vans are for right. Most other “windows only” apps work fine under WINE. If I have to say one thing: powertoys (some of them)

My thinkpad’s battery is much happier on Linux than windows. It’s hibernate and sleep work as expected. My windows work laptop can’t even wake from sleep properly unless I I open the lid and re plug the dock each time it’s gone to sleep.

I prefer navidrome https://www.navidrome.org/ over Jellyfin for music as I find it much more responsive and it has extra features like smart playlists. Just adding an extra opinion for those interested.

Thanks for posting the update on what you used

Came here to say this. Now I just need to upvote.

For me i keep a local one so if I lose a file or something gets corrupted I can restore locally without any egress costs or network lag. The sync to remote is in case of local data loss for example fire or theft.

Rclone will (should) be faster than doing a restic sync due to not having to do any deduping etc.

B2 is Backblaze’a version of S3. It’s a cloud storage solution. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

Restic will encrypt the backup https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/070_encryption.html

And it will backup directly to B2 so not intermediate storage is needed.

https://beets.io/ could do all of that for you.

Second restic or Borg with a rclone sync to storage. Restic will handle both for you though. Borg is an option if you want a local back up that then gets synced (or use restic to do multiple backups)

I use B2 storage and it’s dirt cheap compared to other offerings. You can use rclone to mount the bucket locally and only recover what you need to save on egress costs.

The advantage of restic/borg is not only encryption but snapshots, deduplication, and compression over a simple rsync.

Rsync.net can run a Borg server if you want to back up to that but B2 is much more cost effective.

I use Linkding https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding which is a clone of pinboard. Not sure if it will work with Samsung browser but I use custom actions on iOS to add links and the web UI to access links

I meant use random.org select the words directly rather than go through the steps of getting numbers and then lookup.

I get the bias. A big weakness in the one time pads from WW2 was the word callers putting words back they thought were too frequent :)