Reverse DNS? Or vuln scans just hitting IPs. Don’t need DNS for that.

I sync to TrueNAS scale with photosync and then I sync scale with back blaze b2

Sun thing for me was absolutely terrible. If I recall correctly, huge pain in the ass because I vlan off my wifi and had to mess with policies for discovery. I found the app would often freeze and lock up, glitch, etc. And this was on two different phones.

I thought with this for years. It’s unreliable and buggy on Android and iPhone. I caved and paid for some photo sync app and it’s been super stable.

That or folder sync on Android. Then feed into immich or photosphere.

I spent many nights running diff and comparing sources and destinations and md5sums and so on

Agree, but this is why I do both. Sometimes I listen to my local stuff and having a great time because it’s more refined

I didn’t read your entire post (sorry it was long 😅) but have you heard of lorawan? It’s a low powered long distance mesh network technology. I believe that’s what the helium project uses.

https://www.helium.com/

Never. Same with GPUs. AI destroyed jobs, the gaming market, and customer service

Yup. Bs headline.

Have the lifetime since like 2012, every time a post like this surfaces I wonder if the contents of it are finally going to force my hand to use jellyfin instead

Definitely. I use home assistant but I found a lot of things require enabling integrations with other platforms. They’re bricks if that platform decides they are.

This is why IoT isn’t sustainable. If you don’t have total control you’re fucked.

Ah, I missed that part

Stop using google. Don’t you know their motto? “Be evil”

You could just host it inside your network and do an always on VPN. That’s what I do.

Like ham radio ppl

I didn’t either, but I started using floccus and syncing my bookmarks across my 2 computers and phone. In a pinch it works great for those obscure websites I don’t frequently visit.

True, the answer to that is more hardware unfortunately. I guess there are Linux options, I forget what they are though.

Any old hardware and run opnsense or pfsense (the former preferred)

Libgen. Not torrents but books are all over.

Also audiobooksbay, you don’t actually need an account for these torrents if you take the hash from the site

Sounds like the easiest method lol. At least that way I could add in something to delete photos after copying them if they’re X days old.