I love how I can customize my PC/VPS (Linux), and I feel truly at home. I hate smartphones (iPhone and Android). I hate it how limited I am in configuring them, and it’s a PITA to make sure it all syncs with my main computer.

Why isn’t it much more common to just use our phones as little windows/gateways to our actual computers? Using something like VCN? Internet speeds should be fast enough?

We could even build a little interface that makes it easier to navigate?

  • m-p{3}A
    3·
    30 days ago

    Finally I use Folder Sync to keep all of the userdata files on my phone backed up to a folder on my server via SSH. Images are synced immediately on creation, and everything else is backed up on a schedule.

    On a similar tangent, I use Syncthing-Fork on my phone to sync my userdata between my phone, desktop, laptop and VPS.

    I use the untrusted device feature to encrypt my data with an additional password, which I entered on my phone, desktop, and laptop, but not on the VPS. That way I have an encrypted copy of my userdata that I securely store on my VPS for an extra layer of protection in case of a security breach.

    • Darkassassin07English
      4·
      30 days ago

      That’s a fair solution.

      I’ve just got remote devices syncing to my local server. From there Borg handles encrypted historical backups of that server which can be sent offline/offsite.

      I like borg because of its insane de-duplication and compression algorithms. I’ve currently got ~480GB of data being backed up, with 16 historical copies going back 6 months: that entire archive takes up 303GB of space currently. Without the de-duplication and compression that’s 7.76TB of data.