Weird. Other than how it used to choke when there were conflicts (and all uploads stopped until that was fixed) I haven’t had any issues like that. Guess I’m just lucky.

I’ve had pretty good experience with Nextcloud’s instant upload. The only time I’ve had it shit the bed was ages ago when it would occasionally get stuck on a conflict, but that hasn’t happened in a long time. Pretty much all of my image folders (camera/DCIM, Screenshots, Downloads) get synced. The only annoying thing was when apps would suddenly change where they download to and I’d have to reconfigure yet another sync folder, but I can’t really fault NC for that.

Mine is set to upload and keep a local copy and only do a one way sync (phone to NC). Not sure if that causes less issues than a 2 way sync or deleting the local copy after upload?

Can confirm, but depending on the VPS, your traffic may only be metered in one direction. Mine only meters egress, not ingress, so it’s not too bad if I want to use my media server.

All of mine use bind mounts so I can just tar-gz the whole deploy folder for backups and migrations. For volumes that connect to remote shares (SMB, NFS, etc) I use named volumes and let Docker take care of their lifecycle.

If named docker volumes would let me specify the local filesystem location, I’d use them. As-is, I rarely do.

Then you really should list all of the secondary functions you plan to add to it, make sure they understand what those are, and agree to each of them: full disclosure.

If you do something on it that could get them in trouble, it’s their ass on the line, not yours.

Are you friends okay with you doing that? I would not be, especially if my so-called friend didn’t disclose the secondary operations of the device that’s in my home, on my internet connection, under my name.

I can only speak for myself, but the quick settings menu has been terrible (IMO) since 12. They’ve gotten worse each release. So the “overhaul” is mostly just going back to the way it already was before they made it garbage. The exception being it’s still oversized and unwieldy.

Peak quick settings (A11):

They just keep making the quick action buttons worse, don’t they?

I miss the Android 11 style ones, myself.

Cat S22 Flip. Sadly discontinued as well as the manufacturer (Bullit) out the phone business.

Oh, yeah, the speculation is not unreasonable. I just don’t know if that’s necessarily a good thing (unless there’s a huge leap in durability preceding that).

I’m already rocking the foldable I like, anyway lol:

Remember “phablets”; almost all smartphones eventually turned into phablets.

Which is, arguably, for the worse. I miss smaller 16:9 devices I could use one-handed and reach all the corners of. Almost cried when I had to give up my OnePlus 3 and everything now is an unwieldy, tall-skinny rectangle.

I’ve not had a hands-on experience with foldables yet, but the reviews I’ve read imply they still seem too fragile for the price.

I use SnappyMail. It’s a fork of Rainloop that’s actually maintained.

https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail

And unlike Rainloop, the Sieve filter editor actually works.

Yeah, then I guess I’ll need to keep looking. The hardware can be great, but not when I can’t do what I want with it. Thanks for the insight.

XDA does show some people are able to bootloader unlock and root (which is basically all I need), so I may keep tabs on it and go from there.

I’d considered the Razr but was uncertain on the durability of it. Reviews were about 50/50 last I read.

That’s awesome you mentioned using it closed most of the time. I’m tired of the “tall, skinny rectangle” form factor (and not being able to use it one-handed despite having not-small hands lol). Since smaller phones seem to be extinct, it’s cool there’s a middle ground in being able to use it that way.

I do need to make sure I can find one that’s bootloader unlockable. Kind of a hard requirement for me and necessary to de-google it to my satisfaction. It’s not listed as supported by Lineage, but I’ll browse XDA and see what they’ve been able to do with it.

Thanks!

I have a single Nginx setup which is the frontend for all my web services. So I only need to deploy it there (and to its HA partner). My renewal script just scp’s it to the secondary and does an nginx -s reload on both.

I do generate separate certs/keys for my non-web servers, but there’s only two of those.

You could also, if you wanted, just generate one cert and distribute it and its key to everything with a script or other automation tool (Ansible is what I used to use).

Is there a way I can get Let’s Encrypt to dole out a wildcard certificate

Yep. Just specify the domains yourdomain.com and *.yourdomain.com in the certbot request. Wildcard domains require the DNS-based challenge, but you’ve said you’re already good there. You don’t technically need the apex domain (yourdomain.com) but I always add it since I do have services running there.

Any subdomains under the wildcard can use internal DNS or internal IPs on the public DNS (I do the former, but the latter works too).

I used to run an internal CA, and it wasn’t too hard to setup a CA and distribute my root cert. Except on mobile devices. On Android it was easy, but there was a persistent warning that my network traffic could be intercepted (which is true when there’s a custom root cert installed), but it since it was my cert, it got annoying seeing that all the time. Not sure if Apple devices can even do that, but regardless, it wasn’t practical for friends who wanted to use my self-hosted services to install a custom cert when they were over.

Oooh!

I’ve been rocking a de-googled but aging CAT S22 Flip since last August (low-end android smartphone in a flip phone form factor). Absolutely love it but sad there is no clear successor when I have to eventually replace it. It’s basically the same concept as this phone.

Sadly, this is not a “new” model. He bought it used on eBay, it’s got similar specs to my S22, and only runs Android 12. However, that screen is quite nice and would be a huge upgrade from the S22. The unfortunate conclusion is that there is still no clear successor for my S22 unless I want a slightly/barely less out of date phone and go with this one.

Is there EV support?

Looks like it, yeah:

The UI still shows Fuel, but it seems like you can enter the kWh and it should calculate. Maybe plug some values into the demo to be sure. If you do, let us know!

I use Fireflyiii for my money and budgeting.

I don’t see why not. I haven’t stood it up yet, but I’ve played with the demo. It does have a section for parts/repairs/upgrades.

Give the demo a try, and let us know.