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c/privacy@lemmy.ml · bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 24 Aug 2026

Android phone full backup

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I think I asked before but never got a solid answer. I have a s23, I disable all google and Samsung services I can etc, but I am still stuck with stock android. I plan to move to a better phone in the next year.

However I need a solution for a full phone backup. Not even a sync right now, just plug in and backup all my apps notes and photos (photos are backed up already but I don’t care about doubling up for now.

The reason being I dont want to lose or have my phone stolen and have no backup. I do have FMD installed but still.

This is one big downside of not being fully self hosted yet but refusing to use google products… No instant sync to a new phone if mine is lost.

c/privacy@lemmy.ml · bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 13 Aug 2026

Encryption help

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So like a doofus, ive never really done encryption on any of my PCs/drives. With the way stuff is going, now I want all of it encrypted. The issue is I have so much data from over the years and everything ive read says it deletes everything when you encrypt.

For me it would mostly be my desktop and my nas.

Is it really a matter of, I’m gonna have to buy a whole bunch more HDDs to copy everything over to, encrypt, copy it all back? What’s the best (Linux) software for a mass copy task like that to be sure it works correctly?

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The archive has an official guide that reads like another book in the myst and isnt just a boring how to. They did really well on it.

on Day 797 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
WHAT the fuck does this lever do I’ve been here for 4 hours.

on Day 797 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I love fmv.

I had myst as a kid but couldn’t get it running on my PC. So, I had the typical experience 😅

I am playing through it now though.

on Day 797 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
marketplace friend. Only way.

on Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Totally.

on Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago
I prefer large to small imo, plus computers prefer yy mm dd too

on dating tips in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Go back to the retirement home grandpa. Computers are from prompts now with subscription tokens. Pass me the verification can gramps. Heil musk!

on dating tips in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago
The worst date format. Even worse than Americans mm dd yy

on dating tips in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4d ago
We dont take kindly to logic round these parts 😉

Kidding. I myself need the real hardware and real controller to transport myself. I am just obsessed with authentic. Hence why the 5 CRTs…

I do emulate ps2 on my desktop for a couple of games, but not often.

on Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago
No, I am Fook mi!

on Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Literally bought a Wii this week so I could play GameCube. And mod it of course. The last good analog output console !

Get one now before prices go to the moon

on Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago
I wish so bad more people understood this shit. Our brain dead society can literally only process “bUY On tEH aMAZoON??!!”

People now are idiots and can’t even search the web to find where to buy a product (usually cheaper directly from the manufacturer if they do shipping), they sure as hell aren’t gonna find an author on patreon.

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
Then they’ll make certain ports illegal

on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
Yeah, I’ll keep quoting the mantra of the 20s, “everything sucks now. You’ll own nothing and be happy”. I’ll go back to my early 2000s cave now.

on Everybody's Lost Their Minds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
That is not my use case, I don’t know any of those words !

on Had to do a clean install... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
It was on an 08/ish laptop I wanted to just use for simple dvd watching and such. Had a lot of sound and disc issues. I’m a noob tho so went back to mint.

on Had to do a clean install... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Oof, I tried alpine for a bit, nothing worked. That was just beyond me for little gain.

on Had to do a clean install... in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Its such a bummer because I would have went into electronic repair if I’d been born sooner. Right as I was thinking about it all the radioshacks were shutting down etc and everything became disposable and unfixable. Really sad because I enjoy fixing things. I just stick to old stuff now.

It sickens me how much has been thrown away just in the past 15 years, not to mention since the 50s…

on Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Ban all social media that isnt the fediverse. Decentralized and no algirithm. Seems solid to me.

on Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Been using next DNS free DNS. They get overloaded sometimes but usually work fine.

on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead | Mullvad VPN in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
I really want one

on "I Don’t Have a Smartphone…" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Gotta keep us plebs surveilled for the incoming climate unrest.

on Cities are Replacing Flock with Axon / Motorola for their Mass Surveillance Network in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Boot licking fascist cowards.

on Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Those are sad people dude. All for the like. Which is 99% bots. Humanity has fallen.

on Streaming from restaurants (shitpost minirant) in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026
This is what I’m doing now !

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 27 Aug 2026
Ah yeah I can see that.

on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I read it, I know its not him. I was referring to how stupid he was for changing the name of an insanely popular household term. Absolute idiocy becuase of his ego loving the letter x.

Its like Kleenex changing their name to bleepoopy and demanding everyone now say get me a bleepoopy I have a runny nose. Utter idiocy.

on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
“Genius businessman” mmhm. Total grift. Idiot. In any other world he’d be living in a trailer park with trump flags all over his truck, working at Walmart yelling at brown people.

on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Gotcha, I am gonna stick with syncthing for now !

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 26 Aug 2026
Inb4 Motorola CEO “falls” out a 30 story building window.

on Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Makes sense.

on Voters Aren't Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the comput… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I agree - however theres a lot of farmer-types who just want to abuse the land for the most profit (see, pesticides and herbicies and tiling destroying our water tables and poisoning groundwater)

on Voters Aren't Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the comput… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
i’m ok with that.

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 25 Aug 2026
Holy shit, this came right from my brain. I think about this all the time.

on Technology Is Over - by James Taylor Foreman in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
yeah you’re probably right. really I just need the data and I used Appslistbackup for a list of apps so i could reinstall them if needed. I think Syncthing-fork is gonna be my goto!

one question though, lets say my phone did get lost and I got a new one. Would I just put syncthing on the new phone to send it all back?

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
can’t wait till i do have a rooted device! I’ll save this for when i do,

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
Can i just point that at my parent folder and have it grab everything ?? I tried before and it was confusing to me

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
Well I guess apps I dont really care. I can reinstall. Just all the data. Could i literally just copy all my folders onto my desktop? I did use appliast backup to get a list of my apps backed up and I threw my contacts backup on my nas

on Android phone full backup in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 24 Aug 2026
That makes sense and I’m not an expert but…evaporated water comes back down again as rain does it not? It’s been a while since I’ve dug into this. Lakes evaporate all the time.

on Voters Aren't Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the comput… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Such bullshit. There should be no law against deleting your data.

on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I have ext4 and dont use a separate3 home partition but I use timeshift

on YOLO in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Stop growing shit we dont need like almonds in the desert. Its pretty damn stupid.

on Voters Aren't Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the comput… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I’m not sure we should keep harping on water usage. Agriculture (especially in the american southwest) uses THE VAST MAJORITY of freshwater. Its not even close.

We should harp on the fact that they take up land, are loud, are being used for mass surveillance and state violence, and owned by billionaires. Thats reason enough to get rid of them. Oh and driving up electric bills (just got my letter this month telling me to conserve power becuase my bills going up. Theyre putting a data center here. Really pisses me off)

on Voters Aren't Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers | As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the comput… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Its fun to think of alternate storage media. The other day I calculated that with the idiotic pricing now, HDDs are only slightly cheaper than DVD storage. And DVDs last longer and dont crash randomly, especially if you get long storage dvds.

Couple years ago, I got three DOA WD red nas HDDs. Dead. And 2 DOA Samsung ssds. I have zero trust for any drive now. No doubt theyre all cost cutting and going to shit. I have 20 year old drives that still work fine.

Ive never personally experienced disc rot even on 20 year old discs, but I heard people have. But yeah DVDs would obviously be a goofy mass backup solution.

on Is there any tape media backup system that works through USB? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Not only that, then I own my media. Sure its more work, but I actually find it fun so win win

on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
My take is, I’d rather spend double on all that (becuase I can), support and share with other users, than give a dime to fucking corpos pushing ai slop and promoting fascist military invasions (that’d be Spotify).

on My home server was a totally justified purchase in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Quite a few. Autodesk is a big one. A lot of custom apps made for companies only do chrome.

on Google Chrome: The Ultimate Weapon of Google Monopoly in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 20 Aug 2026
Too bad its the browser used by 98% of people, and many webapps will only run in chrome alone so those of us with any brain not using chrome are forced to use it for work.

on Google Chrome: The Ultimate Weapon of Google Monopoly in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 19 Aug 2026
True emulation is fun, but soon phones will all be locked down by google/apple, plus they’re total spyware. I’d rather not have them.

Old pixels with graphene will only last so long, new future phones won’t allow it.

on Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Yep, 08 ish was peak. Now tech is shit.

on Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026