I don’t have a Pixel 8 but that sounds highly unusual. I suspect you’re right, maybe the option didn’t exist in the same way on Android 14 and so it’s copied over in a weird way.
I don’t know a way to fix them other than just updating them all one by one. In recent Android versions the app can prompt you if it’s missing the settings so it should be pretty safe to just disable it for everything that doesn’t obviously need background usage.
Eh I don’t even need to think about this anymore. I have a cron job that backs up every March 31st.
No, they removed that clause some 2 or 3 years back.
I use Borgmatic for my scheduled backups, and sync to Backblaze B2 with Rclone. Works great!
My data doesn’t compress as well as yours though.
Docker wants you to use volumes. That data is persistent too. They say volumes are much easier to backup. I disagree, I much prefer the bind mounts, especially when it comes to selective backups.
Yes that’s what I do too!
Overnight cron to stop containers, run borgmatic, then start the containers again.
I occasionally have had permissions issues but I tend to be able to fix them. Normally it’s just a matter of deleting the files on the host and letting the container create them, though it doesn’t always work it usually does.
I don’t know if this is naughty but I use bind mounts for everything, and docker compose to keep it all together.
You can map directories or even individual files to directories/files on the host computer.
Normally I make a directory for the service then map all volumes inside a ./data directory or something like that. But you could easily bind to different directories. For example for photoprism I mount my photos from a data drive for it to access, mount the main data/database to a directory that gets backed up, and mount the cache to a directory that doesn’t get backed up.
Ah I didn’t know about the android logs. Next time it happens I’ll check them. Normally I’m not near access to the server when it happens.
I just tried to force android to kill it but I opened up 20 other apps and when I switched back it was still active so I guess I’ll just have to wait.
I’ve looked and looked and can’t find this “log” entry? By global settings, you mean tap the menu at the top right and tap settings?
Good to know. I wonder what the issue is. It has always done it, for the year or more I’ve used it.
Yip that’s the other mentioned app. I’ll try to remember to use it next time I am listening to something.
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I don’t use Plex I’m on the Jellyfin side but someone pointed out there’s another app connected to Audiobookshelf so I will use that next time.
Ooh thanks for the reminder. It’s installed on my phone but I’ve never actually used it. I think I forget to use it when it comes to actually listening.
F-Droid. Might be relevant that I’m on GrapheneOS.
I love Audiobookshelf, my main complaint is the Android app crashes when killed by Android (so when I try to open it I get a message about it crashing and then have to reopen it). That might just be a me thing.
I used the tool Libation to download my Audible books. There was a Firefox extension to download audiobooks from Libby but it’s no longer working because Libby changed something and the dev didn’t have time to fight the battle, anyone have a good solution to that?
I treat Immich like a frontend. I have photos in Nextcloud, plus local and remote backup (1 2 3 style). Then Immich is set to absorb the photos from Nextcloud, and the photos are exposed read-only to Immich so it can’t damage anything.
Haha this was my first thought too.
Immich is very clear: “⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos.”
In that case, you have your content elsewhere. Make a backup of relevant volumes and a database dump (for your albums and such) and then try updating. Roll back if it doesn’t work. If if you don’t have much in the way of Immich meta data, and the upgrade didn’t work, then you could just start from scratch and re-import your content.
Everyone knows you don’t upgrade to a X.0 release. Got to wait for X.1 at least.
Android by default does remove permissions from unused apps, and the run in background permission is one of the ones it will remove. It doesn’t say on that page but I think the threshold is 3 months.