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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • That’s a fair solution.

    I’ve just got remote devices syncing to my local server. From there Borg handles encrypted historical backups of that server which can be sent offline/offsite.

    I like borg because of its insane de-duplication and compression algorithms. I’ve currently got ~480GB of data being backed up, with 16 historical copies going back 6 months: that entire archive takes up 303GB of space currently. Without the de-duplication and compression that’s 7.76TB of data.


  • I used to use RDP from Android to my Windows 10 pc constantly. Since switching to Debian, I haven’t gotten around to getting that working again. (Debians out of the box RDP solution gives me a black screen on the remote device)

    Instead I’ve been using ssh a ton with JuiceSSH for a terminal. X-Plore for GUI managing files between local(android), ssh, gdrive, dropbox, and many more locations all in two tabs you can swap between and copy/paste/move files as if it’s all one big file system.

    Finally I use Folder Sync to keep all of the userdata files on my phone backed up to a folder on my server via SSH. Images are synced immediately on creation, and everything else is backed up on a schedule.

    (my phone’s always connected to a private VPN keeping it within my LAN and able to reach things like my SSH server, without exposing them to WAN)

    The only thing I really miss having RDP for is the occasional website that refuses to play with a mobile browser. Hotmail/Outlook (I know, I should really change to someone not trash for email) for example will not let you edit inbox rules via a mobile browser or their mobile app. (even with ‘request desktop site’ enabled). You have to use an actual desktop browser for that. :(

    Otherwise I do pretty much everything from mobile.





  • The IMEI is potentially useful as it’s a device identifier, but generally doesn’t matter to anyone except your carrier.

    On that note; the carrier may be able to tell you when that IMEI first became associated with your phone plan. My phone plan long pre-dates the last like 6 devices I’ve had so they’d have that history for many of them.

    That’s not a database you can search whenever you’d like though; that’s a call and ask nicely.