Yup, after years of trying to make nextcloud, syncthing, etc work for my workflow (copy from flat photos folder on device -> flat photos staging folder on backup server, then a cron job organizes it into folders by year/month), I finally resorted to something manual. Termux + rsync on android. Every few days, I run the termux shortcut to rsync a folder, and delete what's copied over from my device. It just works.
Great story! Could relate to some of the emotions as I went from a founder ceo in biotech to sales engineer in tech, to software engg, then manager, then back to software engg with some unintentional devops detour in the middle!
That 'demotion' from founder ceo to sales engg was rough... but since it was in different geographies, I actually made more money and life quality was better!
Don't understand the negative comments here and on their subreddit... Secure Value Recovery and the associated PIN seems like an advance in the state of the art -- nobody else seems to do this. All users have to do is remember a few numbers.
I find it surprising that many users got so upset by the software asking them to set a password that they removed the app... seems a bit extreme. I guess if it was part of a "sign-up" flow, people would have been primed for it... But even then, it takes like just a minute to do it? /shrug
I have a pin for my sim-card, a pin for the phone encryption, pins for each of my 4 credit cards, a pin for the office door, a pin for my work phone, a pin for the computer smart-card login..
Plenty of apps add annoyances and nags for new features that uses don't necessarily care about. They correspondingly lose users and gain ire for doing so.
That the motivation and end feature is good is beside the point - they have simply gone about this in a very abrasive way and seem to think they 'know better'.
Practically no evolutionary biologist thinks that. All organisms living today have evolved for equally long.
You've described a criteria - "logical brain" - and then evaluated currently living organisms based on that, and determined humans to be the highest on that. That's not the same thing as being "most evolved".
Evolution has no "direction", no goal beyond the ability to survive. It's dysteleological.
Recommend The Big Picture by Sean Carrol for an overall overview of related questions.
As an immigrant on H1B, if it wasn't for the quality of work and people here in the valley, I'd definitely look to go elsewhere with my skills because of this incessant existential risk to our life in this country. This administration really stresses immigrants like me.
Like, are we staying here or are we not... can we plan to buy a house or not... should we plan our kids education here or elsewhere... should we save money here or elsewhere...
Pfft. Not sure if I'd have made the same decision going back 4 years. Friends who chased professional opportunities in Europe, Canada seem to have their visa stuff figured out. But over here, the rules just keep changing.
For what it's worth, as a fellow immigrant on a work visa (O-1 here… wasn't eligible for H-1B), the stress around a visa status is nothing new. It's been a constant struggle since I moved to the USA in 2009; and all 8 years of Obama were pretty bad too. Trump might be bad, but the immigrant struggles are nothing new, and won't change regardless of whether the administration is blue or red.
I guess so... but headline-grabbing news around immigration does seem to pop up more. And then I have to dive into that and figure out if this applies to us or not.
Definitely leaving a bad taste. Some amount of "lock-in" period to laws so that people can plan their lives better would definitely help. But hey... I'm no lawmaker.
it covers like 80% of my use-cases (which I use 99% of the time), and weirdly magit gets me the other 20% if I can remember which trail of breadcrumbs I follow through helm to make it happen. For the easier stuff I just drop down into the cli though.
