I have a second SIM that I use for situations where I don't want to give out my real number.
It's a traditional PAYG SIM where I pay for a tiny bit of credit and it lasts until I use it. I need to make a billable once every few months to keep it active. So I just text myself once every couple of months. The $10 I put on it will last a few years before I need to top it up. Or I could just 'burn' it and get a new one.
I find it weird that they upload content to their own servers even when you provide them with an external link.
Or they could just compression for their PNGs. PNG is a lossless format so they'll only lose a fraction of a second during creation.
You could turn off the DHCP server on your router and let your server handle it. You can then tell your clients to use Pi hole via the DHCP running on your server
Who says the ISP isn't blocking ports via a firewall?
I thought it was common practice for ISPs to block certain ports for residential connections?
I don't see the hate for storing data in a sqlite database. It's still your data, you get to do with it as you please, and I've yet to see the data encrypted (let's not give anyone any silly ideas here). You want to see your data outside of the program, just download any sqlite viewer. If you don't mind CLI, then the tools provided by sqlite are more than good enough and are only a few MB in size.
Everyone I've tried from the Play store feels too basic compared to Nova or their rating is too low because of bugs.
Edit: in hindsight it looks like I'm a paid shill for Nova. This isn't the case at all. I've been looking at launchers for the past few weeks as I recently realised I've had the same set up style for over a decade. I don't want to be the person stuck in the past doing stuff the slower and archaic ways when there are newer and better ways of doing things. I currently have over 20 launchers installed on my phone and I've been slowly trying some.
A lot of platforms strip out the meta data. All social media platforms and all messengers I've tried strip out the meta data. There might be some that don't?
Does the meta get stripped locally or on their servers though? I suspect locally.
Your OS doesn't matter when picking a VPN provider.
Others have mentioned plenty of good options.
I'm not deleting them. They're uploaded to the cloud at the time of creation. I also move them off my phone to my computer every 6 months or so - I do this just in case the upload to the cloud has ever silently failed. I deduplicate the images, so I don't have multiple versions of the same image with different file names.
For me it's not entirely about space. I rarely let the device get more than 2/3rds full. It's also about speed. If I want to pull a photo/video off my phone, it seems sluggish when there are thousandths of files in that one directory.
I'm using a 128GB phone and it's never full. But I export photos And videos off it once every 6 months. If I didn't I'd need 1TB phone.
Yeah exactly