You buy as much space as you’ll need in the next few years and make a plan for proper duplication/backup, such as 3-2-1 Backups.

Your family isn’t dumber than average.

Uu tech folks tend to forget/overlook that most people are clueless as to how mobile devices work. I have IT friends who know practically nothing about the Android file system, or how apps store (but don’t sync) data, for example. And these are people designing/implementing/supporting complex systems.

Most people can’t be bothered if there’s more than one or two steps. I can’t walk my “70 year old uncle” through configuring an app on his phone, over the phone. The stuff he says he sees make no sense at all. I’m like “no, that’s not what you should see, what did you click on”?.

Oh, access to everything will happen.

The owners will just charge us for every viewing of every episode.

Yep.

I rip them, then store the discs in a cool, dark, dry place.

Everything I rip is backed up. It’s pretty clear what’s happening.

And in 20 years they’ll start “selling” everything by the episode online.

Why the hell would I want to:

1. Use that garbage called discord

2. Use corporate spyware like shitcord?

3. Give all this local gossip detail a place online

4. Let alone in spyware garbage like shitcord?

Did I forget to mention what utter shit discord is?

Have you never used NextDoor? Ffs, people are such gossipy ignoramuses on an app like that, why would I bother?

Ah, OK.

Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.

BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you’re looking at support the capability? I haven’t looked into enough of them to know for sure.

That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but… It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won’t use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.

(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don’t really trust).

Oh, cool, that’s slick. I didn’t know this existed!

Omg, stop whining. Do or do not, there is no try. If you don’t want to drive, then why are you doing this?

Driving is one of the easiest things you’ll ever do in life (wspeckally with cars built after about 1990).

If learning how to drive is this difficult for you, what are you going to do when something truly difficult comes along?

Being car free is totally possible.

Lol, OK, you do you.

What do you mean by “possibility to upgrade storage other than just replacing drives with bigger ones”

That’s pretty much all you can do with a fixed number of drive slots.

Today’s NAS’s use some form of ZFS/BTRFS, so they’re really good at handling new drives. Though I think dynamic expansion is just coming on line in the latest versions, and may not be in production just yet

I can’t speak to NAS, I’ve always “rolled my own” because no one makes what I want, let alone in a price point I can manage (I like to use 2.5" drives with a moderately powerful system as a media center/home server, etc, for compactness). My current box is an old small-form-factor desktop that maxes out at 3 drives, though I have 5 shoved into it.

For photos I use Syncthing (specifically Syncthing-Fork as it has more flexibility) on my phones to sync the DCIM folder to an always-on machine at home.

My DCIM folder syncs to a folder in my user profile on the server, other people sync to their respective folders. I permit this sync job to run in any network, with any power (AC or battery), so I never lose pictures I take.

This has a benefit of enabling me to manage photos from a pc, and those changes sync back to my phone (I generally move the photos out of the synced folder to somewhere else, this has the effect of removing them from the phone). Just don’t use the built-in photo backup sync job, which only syncs photos from phone to PC.

Nice thing about Syncthing is you can sync anything anywhere however you want. Windows, Linux, Max, iOS (using Möbius).

I currently sync hundreds of gigs between several phones and several PCs. I have about a dozen sync jobs (folders in SyncThing terms). I also sync other folders from phones, to enable file management from a PC, since changes will be synced back with two-way sync jobs.

I never knew Boston was designed for cars (yes, that’s sarcasm, Boston is known for its roads being enlarged footpaths dating back hundreds of years, some of which started as paths that animals took).

The US is much more complex than such a simple statement. US cities, historically, weren’t so much designed as grew. And I still see that today. My town, a suburb of a city, was established about 1860 (140 years ago), when there was empty space between it and the city - farmland.

It certainly wasn’t “designed for cars” that didn’t exist at the time. The town I grew up in existed before cars.

And I’ve seen this all over the place. The cities grow until they run into small towns, which then become suburbs of the city. These small towns were often agriculture based (or manufacturing based), because farms need to take their cop to the train, the train stop ends up growing a town.

The only “designed” city I can think of is one in Maryland. There are others, but cities aren’t “designed” - that implies an over-arching plan. Cities are organic, they grow.

If you want to make a “design” argument, Western Europe is much more in line with this idea, since so much infrastructure was destroyed by two successive world wars over 20 years, and the reconstruction with “modern” engineering and design that took place starting in the 1950’s.

London (like much of Western Europe) was heavily demolished during WWII, so had to rebuild.

While during the same period the US was the opposite - it had an explosion of manufacturing growth during WWII, and having it dispersed made sense in numerous ways - it’s where the population was, or where space was available to easily expand, or where certain resources were, or even was far enough away from population for safety reasons (see uranium enrichment at Rocky Flats northwest of Denver, which is now largely an open space because you simply can’t reclaim that soil with all the uranium dust buried in it). You can see this in many cities where the old industrial areas are being reclaimed and converted to housing, shopping, entertainment, etc.

So you have 19th century engineering used during massive manufacturing growth ((because it was established and many older engineers (beyond draft age) had years of experience with it) in the US, while Europe saw destruction of lots of 19th century (and earlier) development.

Rebuilding happened during the mid-20th. So why wouldn’t you use the newest engineering.

In the US I once worked at a company manufacturing leather belts for factories that still had drive shafts running equipment. They were also using lathes from WWII, because it was precise enough for the assembly line machinery which was similar in age. Upgrading would cost more than it was worth (this was in the early 2000’s). I suspect their entire plant was built during WWII.

One way to look at it - in land space, the US is equivalent to 16 western OECD countries. Comparing a single European country to the US is meaningless. Better to compare most of the EU, and even then historical events, and political borders make for very different results.

My brother label maker is over 20 years old, I’ve put batteries in it a handful of times.

The cartridges haven’t been cheap until recently. Now they’re like $4 each. I can live with that.

Hey, you opened the door! 🤣

And shortcuts are it’s intended behaviour, always has been.

You’re making a distinction without a meaning.

You can do that yourself, since Chicago first debuted in ~1994.

I don’t want my OS categorizing stuff for me.

My start menu is categorized on the root (where “pinned” items go), and I leave the rest of the menu alone.

Coffee and cigarettes 😁

Pixel is clean, from a battery saver perspective, so that’s probably not your issue.

Not sure what to do next. I’ve used it for about 10 years now, and keep gobs of stuff in sync with it.

I do recommend Syncthing-Fork for Android, it moves the sync conditions into the individual since folders, so you get finer control.

Do you get any errors on the desktop console? On Android, if you launch the web client you get much more info and configuration capability (Menu - Web GUI). Once there, click the gear at the top right, and open Logs. Maybe there’s something there that can help.

SSD only?

Look at Mr Moneybags over here. That would increase my cost about 400%

And no, I wouldn’t recoup that in energy cost reductions, as my oldest NAS with ancient drives only draws a few watts 97% of the time.

Yea, I like Resilio, but it’s a battery and ram hog.

Syncthing should work fine for you.

Does your phone have some custom battery management? Some vendors do that, and it causes issues.