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Nah, it’s 2 different things.

I could add pictures in the shopping list app, I just don’t want them there.

Instead I slowly took pictures of everything I own. And when something new comes in, I take a pic of that. I have a folder for inventory photos.

Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.

There’s also the insurance angle.

Heaven forbid you have a fire or flood from a water line break. Insurance companies aren’t your friend and will shaft you if they can - I’ve seen it happen with friends.

So now I have an inventory (and pictures). I have about 4x the stuff in my place than the average person in a house this size, so the defaults from insurance would make me lose lots of money. Once they see an exported spreadsheet with counts and dates (plus the pictures), they’ll cut a check and not argue.

Plus the inventory helps me keep track of what I have so I don’t buy it again.

I have 800+ items in my home inventory list. Lots of different tools, household stuff, and cooking stuff.

I used to be able to keep track just by having a few containers, but then I started forgetting what container something was in.

Now containers are labelled with a container name and list of what’s in it, my inventory app (just a shopping list app) indicates the container name.

Drives only consume power on reads and writes, if your NAS spins them down as it should (and apparently QNAP *doesn’t, which I didn’t know).

As per my other comment - 8 drives or 1 drive, same idle power for desktop hardware. My actual NAS uses about 1/8 the power at idle for 5 drives.

Power isn’t from drives, if your OS spins them down (as any NAS solution should).

See my other comment.

Wow, QNAPS don’t spin down disks? Geez, what a crappy design choice. Thanks for that tidbit, I was considering one for my next NAS.

In my experience using a PC as a NAS, the power draw isn’t necessarily the drives as they spin down when idle.

I have an old desktop setup as NAS - with 2 drives or eight drives, idle power draw is virtually the same, about 100w, regardless of the OS (Windows, Linux, UnRAID, Proxmox).

I also have an old consumer NAS, with five 4TB drives, and it idles under 20w (I think last I checked it was ~15w… I need to check it again and write that down).

Two very similar systems, one designed to be a NAS, the other a desktop. It really comes down to the motherboard design and capabilities.

I also have a Dell SFF that idles at about 15w, regardless of drive count - one drive or four (and to get four I added a SATA expansion card and rigged some power splitters, really pushing the power supply). That box idling the same, even when pushed well past design, is pretty telling.

And don’t think that SSD drives would do better - spinning disk drives generally have far better idle power than SSD does, and usually much better write power consumption.

So it really depends, and mostly on the motherboard itself. Yes, you’ll get more power usage with more drives, but that’s at write and read time. My SFF idles at 12w, peaks at 80w when converting videos, the read/write power is negligible, same with the NAS (I transfer hundreds of gigs between them every few days).

FYI, Tailscale has the Funnel feature, so you can access your TS network without a client. Check it out.

If you’re self hosting, why use anything Google?

I don’t use Google apps, my calendar apps aren’t even on Play, and don’t use any Google processes.

Yea, gotta be something odd with your setup.

Currently I have one phone (of several) thats syncing en excess of 10,000 files, some only on Wifi (with 3 access points), some wifi/cell data.

ST knows the state of a file, so a disconnect should have no effect. If you’re getting corrupted files, I wonder if something else is going on which may also affect another sync tool.

Try Resilio for the same folders, see if you have the same problem (disable Syncthing of course, otherwise conflicting edits will cause file corruption).

Syncthing runs encrypted anyway.

I’ve not had files get corrupted, that’s strange, for sure.

Some options (but it really depends on what you’re trying to do):

Resilio Sync (cross-platform, battery eater on mobile, but has a useful feature - Selective Sync)

FolderSync on Android (can also be battery intense)

Native tools and scheduling on Linux and Windows.

Maybe a review of the setup is in order, what your devices are, what you’re trying to do. Sync may not be the tool for what you’re trying to do.

I use a combination of tools for different jobs and devices.

Generally, all files on mobile are synced to home using Syncthing-Fork. For example, on Android I have a sync job(“folder”) in ST for every root folder on the device. These get synced to home depending on conditions (e.g. DCIM syncs over any network, any power condition, so I don’t lose photos, while Backups and Download only sync on power over wifi, since they’re big and not critical).

Between desktop OS’s I largely use OS-specific tools, because I don’t really need sync there, but file copy and comparison on a schedule.

After 10 years and probably 1TB+ of sync, I haven’t lost any files via ST. Currently have 5 phones running jobs back to a server. I’ve even moved Syncthing from one server to another with no issues. With how ST works, I think file corruption is highly unlikely - it even handles in-use files safely.

There’s a vast difference though. You’re acting like we’re Luddites or something, when there’s already a concrete example of the problems you’re promoting.

Yes, we have to tinker with AI to understand it. But your approach is to shove it into everything when we don’t fucking want it in fucking everything.

Ffs can you be any more dismissive and denigrating by comparing us to luddites?

And, I’m probably mot much younger than you, and I can call bullshit on your claims. Nothing from 4+ decades ago compares to the Cloud and AI concerns, by orders of magnitude.

Yea, that’s a lot of ambiguity.

“Doesn’t work”. Well, yea, if you only install it on your phone - it’s a multi-device sync tool.

For Windows I recommend SyncTrayzor, for Linux and Mac it’s Syncthing, for iOS it’s Möbius.

I’ve installed it hundreds of times, the only time it hasn’t worked was between 2 Android devices of a specific version, and this is a documented thing.

Encrypted messaging is unrelated to phone numbers. That’s an issue of using apps like WhatsApp (which I refuse to use), and a beef I have with Signal (part of why I really don’t trust them).

Simplex doesn’t use your phone number, why would it? It’s not technically difficult to solve this, it’s a business/social/political issue.

Apps have no need of your telephone number, not that it isn’t hard to find anyway.

I’ve been using email since it was text-based.

I think email for the average person is kind of dead. I rarely use it for personal comms, and it’s more of a repository of receipts and the occasional password reset.

I reluctantly use it for person-to-business.

Work? That’s not my concern. I use the tools that they manage.

Email is practically dead to me - it’s not encrypted, and plenty of encrypted systems exist that provide equivalent, and in some ways, better functionality for personal use.

I wish companies would start embracing them.