

Excellent, thanks for the link!
Excellent, thanks for the link!
I like your thoughts on runtime and recharge time.
That four hour limit really outs things into perspective for someone just starting out. Most people don’t understand the constraints at first.
I believe mailbox.org is all renewable, and I’m pretty sure it’s solar.
But you need a massive battery bank to run stuff, batteries have a limited lifespan (especially the crap used in a UPS).
It’s not cheap, you generally want to overbuild everything, and there are ongoing costs (hardware failures, batteries, etc).
But it can be done. Just have to do the math for your max power draw, then how much uptime you need determines the size of your battery bank and number of panels (which is influenced by how much sun you get/how consistent it is). You need enough panels to run your system and charge batteries, given the limitations of sun availability.
It’s really frustrating there’s no proper backup/restore without root - that’s my primary reason for having root.
Yea, Syncthing-Fork is still maintained, though there hasn’t been an update for a while. The company that makes Möbius Sync for iOS is a big supporter of Syncthing, hopefully they’ll help in some way. Alternatively there’s Resilio Sync, but it’s hard on phone ram - I’d have to manage it a lot more often. Though it has Selective Sync - I can browse a shared folder from my phone and tell it to sync specific files. This is great for my media server - I can grab any movie/music anytime.
I like Syncthing-Fork better because it moves sync conditions to within each folder. So my DCIM folder syncs on any network or battery condition (so I don’t lose photos), but NeoBackup folder only syncs on wifi and while charging.
Pretty much all folders now sync 2-way, and I export the Syncthing config on the phone whenever I change something. That export folder is also synced, so when I switch phones I just install ST, import that config, and after a couple hours the new phone has all the same stuff as the old phone. Then I launch NeoBackup and start restoring.
Wow, install Tailscale or Wireguard and you’ve got a killer remote support solution.
Weird people would downvote this. I usually don’t care (still don’t, lol) but someone downvoted the idea of installing a mesh VPN on this KVM, yet it’s already been done.
I’ve used Folder Sync since about 2011. Killer app.
I run rooted just so I can backup/restore apps, using NeoBackup. It backs up to a local folder.
That folder, along with pretty much every folder on my phone is synced to a server at home using Syncthing-Fork. This way new data (photos, downloaded files, etc) are always replicated, and I can effectively manage the phone file system by moving files around at home. Any changes I make will sync back to the phone.
Where was that stated?
I read it as interesting rheirnsalarybwent up when what seems to be a key metric fell, hard.
You’d think this would be a basic usability thing. Just use colors that aren’t a concern for colorblind folks. It’s not hard.
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(Just an FYI, I’m guessing autoincorrect got you).
Great notes too, good point about the device name vs device ID.
Immich is part of FUTO now? Great, congrats!
I look forward to implementing it on my new home box.
Really has virtually no battery life impact (this from 15 years of testing many phones and configurations). Perhaps 1% in 24 hours, I’d have to look at my stats.
May have a slight privacy impact, but given the overall data collection out there, probably unmeasurable. That said, I do turn mine off a lot for the same reason, I just don’t believe it really makes a difference
Macrodroid, Automate, Tasker.
But why turn them off?
“distrohoped”?
As in you hoped this next distro would be the one that worked well?
Sounds like S.O.P
This is the answer.
Never mix business with personal on devices. That’s bad for both.
Parallel won’t show current load of a device. Even a clamp type can be thought of as serial, it’s just picking up the EM field instead of actually carrying the current load across the device.
Something in parallel will be powered by the same source, with it’s current load independent of the other device.
(And yes, I had to think about it for a second, it’s not always immediately intuitive for me either.)
12-18 mo?
Can you imagine a datacenter replacing them that often?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good advice to remind folks these batteries are a wear item, and to be be prepared to replace them, but if you’re having to replace them at 18 months, I’d be looking for a different, not junk, brand.
Maybe 2 years, if I have bad power so it’s being used, a lot.
I can only imagine batteries wearing this fast because the UPS is cheap and doesn’t have pass-through design, and instead uses the batteries constantly to provide power conditioning.
Syncthing-Fork has been out for years and has more options too
I think you misread, OP is saying the system is using to little ram and too much swap.
Which is why adding Tailscale to this KVM is a killer solution