So 31% uses ad blocking.

That’s about 1/3. Pretty impressive actually.

Surveillance advertisement was already around.

Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

And users sucked it up for “convenience”.

Have you solved the issues Syncthing has with Android? Seems Android v9 and later networking blocks the LAN access for finding local relays. Even manually configuring relay IPs in Syncthing doesn’t resolve the issue.

Big chats are kinda a scam anyway, they should be forums lol

That’s the quote of the day right there.

You buy as much space as you’ll need in the next few years and make a plan for proper duplication/backup, such as 3-2-1 Backups.

Your family isn’t dumber than average.

Uu tech folks tend to forget/overlook that most people are clueless as to how mobile devices work. I have IT friends who know practically nothing about the Android file system, or how apps store (but don’t sync) data, for example. And these are people designing/implementing/supporting complex systems.

Most people can’t be bothered if there’s more than one or two steps. I can’t walk my “70 year old uncle” through configuring an app on his phone, over the phone. The stuff he says he sees make no sense at all. I’m like “no, that’s not what you should see, what did you click on”?.

Oh, access to everything will happen.

The owners will just charge us for every viewing of every episode.

Yep.

I rip them, then store the discs in a cool, dark, dry place.

Everything I rip is backed up. It’s pretty clear what’s happening.

And in 20 years they’ll start “selling” everything by the episode online.

That’s the key.

That said, I’ve always bought ~2 year old phones. They usually have batteries at 85% life (or more).

I haven’t had fast charging hurt one significantly yet, and I’ve used it a lot on some phones.

Of course, I avoid using it as much as possible. I use a slow charger (1A,max) overnight and it’s on a timer. On rooted phones I use a charge limiting app.

Depends on who your dear is 😁

Is helium used in deodorants these days?

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Ah, OK.

Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.

BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you’re looking at support the capability? I haven’t looked into enough of them to know for sure.

That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but… It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won’t use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.

(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don’t really trust).

Oh, cool, that’s slick. I didn’t know this existed!

Hurr durr, 'Muricans Stoopid

People like you crack me up, all butthurt cause Americans don’t give a fuck about where you’re from.

Just shows you want attention from Americans, like you’re mad your crush doesn’t know you exist.

Only New Yorkers think this way.

How do you know someone’s from New York?

Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.

Have you checked with Lineage? That’s the most likely source.

Samsung phones are complex - if it can be unlocked depends on the exact model number (not just A15, there are often separate versions of each model).

Generally, US versions aren’t unlockable or flashable. Generally.

I gave up on Samsung several years ago because I got tired of fighting to do anything. Even the unlock and flash procedures were a pain.