Best part with JMP is SMS is piped into XMPP/JABBER. So you’re no longer tied to a phone/Sim card for sms.

If nothing else can you use the browser?

I’ve used Hermit for years to present websites like an app, and am using Native Alpha on my new phone.

Use a browser like Native Alpha or Hermit, which present a website like an app.

And if you use Bitwarden/Vaultwarden for your passwords, it can be pretty seamless.

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

Aren’t those VPNs isolated to that profile then? So only apps within that profile use the VPN in the profile?

Just trying to make sure I understand how Android does isolation. I guess if you run the apps that need each VPN in the appropriate profile and Island makes the isolation kind of transparent, it should work.

I’ve used Island for the app isolation, and a shortcut to an app will simply log in to the associated profile to launch the app. Just never tried with dual VPN.

I think you misread, OP is saying the system is using to little ram and too much swap.

Yet another argument for root. Then you can exclude the VPN app from OOM. Or even move it into /system.

I understand why this isn’t done (moving such apps to system), since mobile uses immutable OS concept. But we still need a way to manage such apps appropriately.

Interesting, I’ve never seen this behaviour on Windows.

I’ve been using Syncthing-Fork for years. It’s better all around because it moves sync conditions to within each sync folder.

So my photos sync immediately (over any network or battery status), but my app config export folder (say my podcast app) only syncs on power and wifi.

Right.

Because databases are never “hacked” and exfiltrated.

(By hacked, I mean most of the time it’s social engineering.)

And their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

“It was too expensive from an engineering standpoint”. Nonsense, Android handled it, your app merely reads and writes to the SMS database via an API.

Or are you telling me the free SMS apps like Handcent, QuickSMS, etc, had a massive engineering team?

This is when I stopped using Signal, when this lie was so blatant, I can no longer trust them.

Add on to that, their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.

Some people like to suffer.

I’ll go a long way to reduce my data exposure, but ffs, Windows and Office are the standard worldwide, for a reason. It’s just naive and foolish to fight this battle while you have enough pressure and time limits as it is.

And I run multiple Linux-based systems in my home lab, but my laptop is windows, because “ain’t nobody got time for that”, as Sweet Brown would say.

Microsoft published that script to Github.

Calling it piracy to use their openly published script is… I don’t know, incorrect?

And being a Google app, which means it can access everything.

I’d sooner use a regular SMS app, and not reward their behaviour. Which is what I do. You want to use garbage like SMS or RCS? Then you suffer the issues that come with SMS.

Capacity like that is the only reason I could think of.

Why 3.5" drive? (Just curious).

I’ve found prices aren’t necessarily any better at that size.

For anyone who seems uninterested, ask if they’d like to be arrested for murder simply because they biked past a place every day.

For anyone looking for great talking points about this issue, I highly recommend “Taking Control of Your Personal Data” by prof. Jennifer Golbeck, published by The Teaching Company, ISBN:978-1629978390, likely available at your local library as a DVD or streaming.