I just loaded it, goes to the website linuxupskillchallenge.org

Hahaha, wtf?

Verify.

Mistakes happen.

And the world “should” be perfect.

And quickly realizing they could be used for more.

And this is part of why I root.

Only certain apps get network access, and only certain apps get to use Google services.

They’ll complain, some won’t work.

Next phone won’t have Google services at all, and untrustworthy apps will be sandboxed in their own profiles.

Like, turn off the iPad or iPhone?

Agreed.

Meta wants to scan all your messages

Define share?

Keep all files in sync between two points?

Enable ad-hoc access to all files, or a subset?

Well, if it’s a work phone, ita kind of expected.

A work phone is a liability for a company, so only do work stuff on it.

I mean it doesn’t take Google for them to get a copy of all your sms, it’s pretty effing simple with just the MDM software they use. Or a simple script to pull the SMS database every day and export it to CSV or excel, then import into a db.

How do I know? Because I’ve done this with my own phones since about 2010.

There’s a free, 30 day program for learning Linux that may help, The Linux Upskill Challenge.

I like that it walks you through doing stuff, step by step, starting with foundations and building on it.

Depends on how old.

By the late 20-teens, stuff got a lot more power friendly. I have a 2017 Dell desktop that idles at 18w with an 8TB drive inside. Marginally more than my NAS.

Though I’m not disagreeing, you definitely need to check that first. It’s why I retired my really old desktop that was my prior server - it idled at 100w+. Ouch.

They addressed a single-user OS at the time. Abstraction like this at the time worked. It wasn’t like these machines were expected to be able to do more.

Legacy stuff just kind of sucks.

I’d say we probably have 86DOS to thank for it.

A short summary at the start would be helpful, otherwise this is a wall of text that isn’t inviting.

Great info, just too much at once. For example, I’ve tried most of these, so I don’t feel like digging through all this to figure out if you found the same things.

We don’t even know at the beginning how many, or which ones you tried, or what high level requirements you worked with.

That’s because RCS is crap - it’s backwards (tying networking to specific hardware, how 1982). I refuse to even let my phone use it at all, since it’s so problematic.

Businesses repair laptops every day.

I’ve replaced 2 keyboards in my family in the last year, and 2 batteries.

I’ve replaced fans in laptops. Recently replaced the cpu paste in one.

Just because you never see it because everyone you know buys shitty consumer laptops, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Business-class laptops are maintainable, and they cost more because of it.

In the last year my friends in the SMB space have replaced half a dozen keyboards, numerous batteries, etc. And these are in companies that have regular replacement cycles.

So fixing computers has saved me from replacing a laptop for just $100 in parts in the last year alone. And time - I’m not waiting for some “expert” to tell me my keyboard is dead. I just ordered one online for $30.

Just go outside (if you’re in a zone that has enough annual sun). At least in the summer months.

That’s the best source, as it helps your body produce the specific form it needs (because there are a few).

Supplementation only works when there’s a massive deficit, as it’s not necessarily the exact form a given person needs.

It’s linked to just about everything.

Diabetes - a Nordic study showed a huge drop in T1 through supplementation.

The challenge with D is that there are a bunch of different forms, so proper supplementation is difficult, and why simply getting enough sun makes the difference.

An automatic centerpunch is a better tool for this by a long shot.

I couldn’t see a port like that without magnification, and it’s hard to get light with magnification just right.

I can see this being useful for things where I just can’t get the magnifyer, light and my head in the right spot. Though it would be better as a borescope connected to my phone (via USB rather than this thing’s WiFi). Which you can get for about the same price.

DDG has gone completely shitty for me recently.

Such a weird thing to be seeing.