How does this affect battery life? Seems like a lot of background activities going on. But the concept is fantastic.

I like Twine on F-droid

People love syncthing but I spent about 20-30 min on setup and found it confusing once I got beyond 2 devices. There are a couple comments in this thread between me and someone else about different setup options with syncthing.

I have been relatively happy with folder sync pro and nextcloud though. It’s worth noting that changes only instantly push when they’re made on Android first. If you edit/add/remove a file that’s in a synced folder from a computer, then folder sync pro on Android will simply use the sync interval that you set (I have mine at 15 min and have seen no battery hit, can set it down to 5 min). You can also just manually hit the sync button in FSP. But that was just one element that I was troubleshooting and thought sync was broken, but nope, that’s just how it works depending on what device did the edit/add/remove.

How do you set up syncthing with a host/client configuration?

I planned on setting it up with 5 devices but as soon as I got to 3 devices I started having issues and didn’t like the structure conceptually of “everything syncs to each other” vs having a “source of truth” with 2-way sync.

TBF my issues with syncthing were probably user error but still frustrated me enough that I bailed.

It really surprised me how many services I was relying on from Google when I really took stock. I’ve been weaning off for a few weeks and I expect the process to take some weeks/months still.

I just bought a Pixel to use GrapheneOS because I share your same opinion.

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It took about 2 days of using nextcloud files across devices to experience unreliable syncing from Nextcloud on Android.

I installed folder sync pro on android and that has helped a lot, but it still irks me to use 2 tools when 1 should do the job.

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A lot of my friction moving from 1PW to BW was due to TOTP (2fa codes) being stored inside 1PW.

So now that I have those codes in a different service than my password manager, I hope it’s a less painful process as you describe.

I pay for Proton but still hesitate to move passwords there because I could easily see Proton developing a penchant for sniffing their own farts.

I JUST fucking moved from 1PW to BW and super irritated at the prospect of moving again so soon. Sellouts.

I tried a super lightweight model on my CPU-only laptop as recommended by whichllm.

The response to a basic question spit out a word every 1-3 seconds and was laughable.

Not that this was a huge surprise, but it wasn’t even in the neighborhood of usable if anyone out there is considering trying it on their underpowered system.

Uploading paper check deposits requires the app

This is a legit problem we should all be concerned about. Doctors do not sign off on this inaccurate notes and they live in your file unless/until corrected.

Add it to the pile of things that suck.