Yea, we’d need to filter out the behavioural angles to clearly identify causal relationships.

Do people who live longer just happen to start eating differently etc.

For example, the better I feel, the better I eat. It’s not the bad eating that makes me feel bad - the better eating is a consequence of feeling better.

I can tell exactly when my diet is going to tank, when my chronic conditions flare. Diet has zero effect on them.

Forget using an SD card.

Install either Syncthing or Resilio Sync on both devices (or your phone and PC, which is what I do) and simply let it sync the folders you want (for Windows use SyncTrayzor, Android use Syncthing-Fork, iOS use Möbius).

They’re both robust and tolerate network disconnects fine, can be confugured to use only WiFi.

Best part, if you sync important folders to your PC, you always have that stuff, and new phone can just sync from there (which is faster and not dependent on old phone being on or even existing).

Syncthing is better on battery in my experience, Resilio is a little more robust but requires more RAM while running as it keeps the sync index in memory.

I use Syncthing on all mobile devices, any photos sync to home nearly instantly, other folders are set to sync only on WiFi or charging, depending on size and importance. It hardly affects battery after initial sync.

Know what’s even better for your battery? Not using this garbage

What’s Google photos?

🖕

Meh, you got a spare kidney…

Fine, I write an extensive bit of help with links to QNAP docs and a few other things, and you downvote.

Fine, how about I just delete it, and ya all go figure it out without my help.

A subscription-based phone.

Yea, no thanks.

My Pixel cost $120, it runs and does only what I want, no subscription required.

I don’t even know what you’re saying at this point

Big time more expensive.

Who says college is better than no college?

What are your metrics?

Your questions are all binaries:simplistic, juvenile.

Like your question about dating and race: simplistic, bigoted and racist.

Rarely.

Most are crashes caused by someone fucking up.

Some are caused by things like medical issues - those would be accidents. Or a rock falling off a hillside into your car, tire blowout, etc.

Careful, not all states have a castle doctrine, and really you don’t want the legal shitshow even in a Castle Doctrine state.

Better to deter than have to deal with that.

My last phone was a 2017 model, I replaced it early 2025 with a Pixel 5. I have since bought 2 more Pixels (because they’re cheap) and keep one as a hot spare (boot it once a month to update) and one as a test bed.

I would involuntarily laugh at this.

“Clearly you don’t know my family, we’re like wolves. Yes, we’ll back you up, but we’ll also pounce on the weak so they either toughen up or die. Is that really what you want?”

I use a similar Dell Optiplex 7000 series.

It boots from the NVME, with an 8TB 3.5 disc for data, and a 500GB SD for my VMs. (Since spinning disks can idle much lower than SSD, getting my always-on VMs off the big drive lets it idle, with the SSD peak power being lower than the peak of spinning disk Adding the SSD increased net power slightly).

I use a splitter on the 12v power line for both of the drives. It’s fine.

This box only has an 80w power supply, and with both those drives hooked up it draws 20w at idle, and peaks at 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously.

The manuall tells you what you can do without voiding the warranty.

Edit: Given it’s age, I’d pull the CPU cooler and replace the paste. It’s likely hardened by now. Mine was randomly rebooting because the cpu would overheat. Replaced the thermal paste and its been rock solid since.

I self host on a 5 year old Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor desktop.

I also have a Raspberry Pi, which has about 1/16 the performance of the desktop - Pi can be used for all sorts of stuff.

Someone’s never had X

Yep.

My Pi is about 8 watts. Really hard to beat.

The SFF started at 12w, but swapping out the data drive for a much larger one pushed it up 5w. And now with 2 VMs always running (PiHole and a Windows VM), it hovers at 20w.

The ancient NAS (Drobo) sits at about 15w.

The LOVE of money.