I use rsync.net

It’s not the lowest price, but I like the flexibility of access.

For instance, I was able to run rclone on their servers to do a direct copy from OneDrive to rsync.net, 400Gb without having to go through my connection.

I can mount backups with sshfs if I want to, including the daily zfs snapshots.

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I just had Find My Device say it can’t find my Pixel Buds, while they were connected to the phone!

I was hoping that the new trackers would be a better replacement for Tile, but I guess not.

This is disappointing, especially that Tile worked better than the other Android options. I was hoping that the new trackers would be a better option.

I’ve used Tile and they’re okay, but occasionally buggy. I once deliberately left a Tile in another country and it would usually show the correct location, but occasionally report it as found near me. Support were in denial, claiming that I must have brought it with me, as if it could somehow go across the Atlantic and back by itself.

I do think that checking baggage is a poor test case though. The bags are probably far from any person’s phone when begin transported.

I also wonder why they needed 4 phones to test. Wouldn’t Tile and the pebblebe/chilplo trackers also work on the Samsung?

I like that I can interface with it in ways that I already understand (eg rclone, sync, sshfs).

Being able to run some commands on the server meant that I could use rclone to copy my AWS and OneDrive backups directly cloud-to-cloud.

Before even getting to documentation, I see so many projects that don’t have a short summary of what they do (and maybe what to not expect them to do).

As an example, Home Assistant. I can tell that it involves home automation, so can I replace Google Home with it? It seems like it doesn’t do voice recognition without add-ons and it can work with Google Assistant. Do I still need accounts with the providers of smart appliances, or can it control my bulbs directly?

None of that is very clear from the website.

I’ve seen plenty of other projects where it’s assumed there’s no need to explain it’s overall purpose.

Some travel routers have a USB socket for media.

They’re usually used to make connecting to hotel Wi-Fi easier (you connect your devices to its ssid, then connect to its admin page and connect it to the wifi, or just plug it in to the lan).

Tp-link ac750, for example

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/340/

Rsync.net has a discounted “Borg” account https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html Which seems to be basically no support and no zfs versioning.

Re needing lots of space: you can use --link-dest to make a new directory with hard links to unchanged files in a previous backup. So you end up with de-duplicated incremental backups. But borg handles all that transparently, with rsync you need to carefully plan relative target directory paths to get it to work correctly.

I can’t recall storage costs (they’re on the website somewhere but are not straightforward).

I was paying maybe $7 a month for a few hundred Gb, although not all of that was glacier.

But retrieval was a pain. There’s no straightforward way to convert back from glacier for a lot of files and there’s a delay. The process creates a non-glacier copy with a limited lifespan to retrieve.

Then the access costs were maybe $50 to move stuff out.

I moved to rsync.net for the convenience and simplicity. It even supported setting up rclone to access s3 directly. So I could do cloud-to-cloud to copy the files over.

I like the versatility of rclone.

It can copy to a cloud service directly.

I can chain an encryption process to that, so it encrypts then backs up.

I can then mount the encrypted, remote files so that I can easily get to them locally easily (e.g. I could run diff or md5 on select files as naturally as if they were local).

And it supports the rsync --backup options so that it can move locally deleted files elsewhere on the backup instead of deleting them there. I can set up a dir structure such as Oldfiles/20240301 Oldfiles/20240308 Etc that preserve deletions.

Someone said

Does bitwarden allow me to automatically create a new randomized email address for every new saved login

And I’m questioning that based on the page in the “yes” link reply, suggesting that the provided page is not evidence that they do.

I don’t follow how your reply relates to that.

I’m referring to the link to bitwarden.

From looking over that page, it looks like they explain how to use such aliases, but don’t provide an alias service themselves, which it looks like Proton Pass does.