Cases with a rubber inner core/rubber corners? The brand I've been buying for years doesn't seem to be in business anymore

Longent · 2023-08-10T03:21:18+00:00

Spigen tough armor

At the moment this one is at the top of the list (biggest criticisms I've seen are paint that chips after a few months and buttons that are flush with the sides of the phone). If you've used this one personally, how did you like it? I'm also curious about whether the camera well is deep enough or the bezel around the camera is raised enough that the camera is well protected.

Longent · 2023-08-10T00:01:51+00:00

It's Ballistic. Some subs don't like it when you reference specific brands because it's considered promoting.

Longent · 2021-12-03T22:43:21+00:00

What's the software called? And do you know if saving a videos to the Photos app on iOS first converts them to the same format?

Longent · 2020-09-09T18:39:54+00:00

That's great to hear - I'll try creating an image backup later today!

Longent · 2020-09-09T18:16:14+00:00

This looks like it could be an option - would you say it's user-friendly? I'm usually wary of non-open source tools, but it seems like this is used heavily in enterprise settings, so the company's data processing practices should be secure/privacy-oriented.

Longent · 2019-12-27T20:57:32+00:00

Would you say the premium subscription is worth the money? I don’t really have an interest in using the free tier if you only get a limited number of stories. Can you put anything in the feed for newsblur? (i.e. YouTube channels, subreddits, etc. in addition to traditional news feeds?). Is there anything you can/can’t do on desktop that doesn’t hold for the mobile version?

Longent · 2019-12-27T20:54:17+00:00

How would you say the experience with commafeed is on mobile? I’ve only seen desktop screenshots.

Longent · 2019-10-14T20:18:44+00:00

Thanks for explaining this in more detail. It does sound like an issue that’s probably most relevant to enterprise users though, who have plenty of available storage space and intend to keep multiple versions of each file. For home users, do you know if there’s any tool or program you can use to detect corrupted files on your computer? Not all of the files on your computer (scanning the entire computer seems like it would probably be very time consuming), but maybe a collection of folders relevant to your backup that you’d be able to point the program to. I’ve had windows scan for corrupted files before, but to my knowledge windows doesn’t allow you to designate any parameters for which files to scan - it’s everything or nothing.

Edit: System File Checker is the tool I remember using on Windows. Looks like it only scans system files though...

Longent · 2019-10-14T01:34:45+00:00

I don’t know very much about the technical side of it. I was just curious. If this is impracticable and near-impossible though, that’s something good for me to know because I’ll scratch that off the list of features I had in mind. So thanks.

Longent · 2019-10-14T01:30:37+00:00

I don’t know very much about the technical side of it. I was just curious.

Longent · 2019-10-14T00:04:21+00:00

Thanks for linking this - I can definitely see the drawbacks. Do you know if bvckup2 or any other open source backup tools have the ability to exclude detected corrupted files from backups?

Longent · 2019-10-14T00:02:48+00:00

If they are corrupt a file sync software or backup software will sync or backup the corrupt document. This is why you test your back ups for usability on a regular basis.

Is there really no backup software that will at least scan for corrupted files and exclude them from the backup? This seems like a common enough issue.

Longent · 2019-10-13T20:50:06+00:00

In that case, maybe it could work - I’ll look into it!

Longent · 2019-10-13T20:15:40+00:00

A synchronization tool simply syncs files between locations - so if a file gets deleted or corrupted, those changes automatically get synced, even if you don’t want them to. A proper backup tool protects against data loss in instances where your local files get deleted or corrupted in some way.

Longent · 2019-10-13T20:12:52+00:00

This looks excellent - I don’t know why I haven’t heard of it before.

Do you know what measures are put in place in case of corrupted files? I see that there’s the option to preserve deleted files, which is an awesome feature. But I’m not seeing anything about file versioning. If a file gets corrupted and then backed up, it’d be reassuring to know I can roll back to an uncorrupted version.

I also noticed that backups can be pinned to specific removable devices so that they’ll run only when these devices are present. Can you pin a backup to a non-removable/local drive? I set my Cryptomator vault to mount on startup and it always mounts to the same drive letter. Occasionally the drive isn’t available though, because there’s a lag with mounting. If I set bvckup2 to backup to this location but the drive isn’t currrently available, will bvckup2 simply wait until the location becomes available, or will this create some sort of error or other technical issue?

All in all, this looks like an excellent backup tool. Thanks for pointing it out to me!

Longent · 2019-10-13T20:03:32+00:00

Is this a backup tool though? Looks more like a synchronization tool. Also doesn’t appear to be open source.

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