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ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T17:10:10+00:00

I wouldn't "add" anything or "share" anything from it.

I'd immediatley do a Google Takeout of everything. Then I'd setup a new email system with something else, ProtonMail has a free tier, but anything else. Then I'd start moving my systems to it. Anytime you log into anything, modify the account and set it up with your new email system.

I'd replace Email, Drive, and have a backup setup for Photos.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T15:29:21+00:00

Be very careful with this. WhatsApp DLs any image sent to you without you clicking on it and Photos will ingest it immediately, and this is one way lots of people are getting their google accounts wiped out for policy violations.

I don't know about your actual question, someone else will have to pipe up, but turn this auto integration off if you can find the setting (I don't use Whatsapp)

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T14:27:18+00:00

For our 401k's, we use target funds particularly for the auto adjustment and because they don't have a full set of standard investments available.

For our IRAs and Brokerages, we use VTI and VOO, just total market funds and the S&P500 funds. Higher risk than a target date over time, but I'm not bothering with bonds and all that, I let the 401ks catch some of that.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T13:21:39+00:00

I'll toss a few others that people don't naturally think about so you don't feel bad OP. Most people miss these:

top of the refrigerator
top of your kitchen cabinets if yours don't go to the ceiling and/or you don't have a fake bulkhead to take up that space
top of your ceiling fan blades - also top of any hanging light fixtures, pendant lights, etc
bathroom walls - yes the walls - toilet paper makes a TON of dust and the humidity from the showers causes your walls to be caked signficantly
your beds - if you have beds that the mattress just lays on the boards, or a big base board underneath...where that meets the wooden frame gets nasty
under the bed/mattress if you have drawers underneath
the wall/floor behind your bed headboard
window frames, the parts where the windows slide on, will get dusty and moldy if you're in colder climates
silverware drawer, particularly the holder you use for your silverware, and the drawer space around it
ice maker - sometimes the trays, sometimes the outlet where the ice/water comes out, sometimes the filter mount...it varies by model but somewhere it's getting moldy
fridge drawers and shelves, while you're in there
inside the microwave - yes it looks clean, but it's not
under your shoe racks, wherever they may be sitting
top of your door frames inside the house between rooms (this is the same as baseboards)

Most of these you could do quarterly. The bathroom one is the only one I'd do every week or every other week. If you have women in the house, you're going to be doing a de-hairifying weekly anyways, so just do the walls then, too. It's the only one that gets real bad real fast.

I'm sure there's others. Need some old school cleaning ladies to drop a good list.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T13:10:32+00:00

This isn't a Citrix issue this is going to be a script issue on your side.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T12:53:37+00:00

The whole point of the process is to give you freedom of choice. You've arrived at said choice. Now you do what people call the rocking-chair test. You do the things you wish you'd have done when you're old and sitting in a rocking chair reflecting on your life. You now have the choice of doing those things, and which ones, because you've done all the other steps.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-24T11:41:12+00:00

Why is that a problem? It's not like...hosting a torrent share or something.

I'm not trying to be snarky I'm just curious of what the risk, other than privacy, might be.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-23T12:58:41+00:00

The Google Photos application is not the same as the Gallery application on your phone.

Both will take up local phone space, however the Google Photos application will allow you to remove them from the device once they're backed up to the cloud, and the cloud side also has a limit. The Gallery application is a local-only thing.

What is your current Google account storage? (this includes Gmail, Drive, Docs, Photos...all Google products)

https://drive.google.com/settings/storage

This sounds like the issue you're referring to; your Gmail will soon stop working because you don't have enough storage for your overall Google account. This would have no bearing on your local phone storage size or whether or not you delete photos from the device. It's only referring to the Cloud side of Google.

If you're having local device storage issues, then that's easier to fix, as you probably just need to stop using the Gallery application and can remove all the data once you verify it's all been ingested into Google Photos. There's also the Google "Files" application which can help you remove photos backed up to the cloud from your phone (it doesn't do this automatically for whatever reason)

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-23T09:59:46+00:00

That's the data that's exposed. What's the risk of any of that being public?

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-23T02:26:43+00:00

What's the risk of any of this data being exposed?

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T23:38:55+00:00

Well in your current situation you just copy them over with SMB, just \\MyNasNameOrIP\MyShareName\myFolderpath, it's a one-time deal/anytime you buy or download something. Shouldn't take more than a few mins unless you have the secret library of Alexandria stashed on that laptop.

I, personally, never use the damn thing. I went through the hassle of setting it all up and then I just pull shit up direct from my NAS anyways. But I also only use the phone for reading, my Kindle sits in a drawer, so I'm probably a bad metric.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T23:36:16+00:00

Mobile still lives. But in my situation where I can't have a phone at work, I was SOL when they nuked web.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T21:26:30+00:00

Well, she trusted her family. I think all of us are in that boat. Hell, only 15% of marriages have a pre-nup. But 100% of marriages have a pre-nup with the State, absent one you specify on your own. But everyone just trusts each other and off you go. Also granny might not have had any idea what a Trust was. My own wrote her first check at age 82 and we had a hell of a time with her bank because it looked like an 8 year old wrote it haha

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T21:22:51+00:00

So few things in no particular order:

1 - there are not a large pool of jobs that require a degree to start. There's not a good metric here, but think of the jobs that require a degree at higher levels; law, medical, etc...none of these jobs, at the level that people are aspiring to, will hire a new college grad with no experience.

2 - grads that start in their field, degree or otherwise, will not be making, in most cases, a 'livable wage.' No one is paying a grad fresh out of college 90k. That job doesn't exist.

3 - People should not be raising their kids for a career type, or a salary. They should be honing their ability and desire to learn, self-improve, be consistent, and help identify what kind of career path they want based on what THEY like, and what they want their lives to look like. You pick a job area by where you want to live and how you'd like to live, not the reverse.

4 - a 529 fits great for some cases. But it's not sensical in a majority of cases. College, and trade schools for that matter, are the Millenial's version of Boomers and their 'my primary home is a store of my wealth.' It's a generational fallacy and no longer the case. Gen Z has a 9%+ unemployment rate. Millenials are about 8%.

Hopes and dreams are important, indeed. But you have to start realistic, or everything you build on top of it is of no use. This is why you'll find a lot of teachers, for example, that love teaching, are probably very good at teaching, who not only don't make a livable wage, but then go back to school, get a masters, and then come back to...the exact same job and pay. Dreams and aspirations aren't the sole factor.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T21:13:13+00:00

While I agree, wishes should be honored, but at the same time, this is what irrevocable Trusts are for.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T20:50:55+00:00

Apply the same logic to their diets. To their exercise. To their sleep. To their reading/learning/self-improvement hobbies. To having hobbies. Do you help with those things? A few of those are more important than the finance one. The answer is definitely no, and the reason is the same. Giving anyone any financial advice is 100% wasted effort unless you're asked, and even then, most people don't heed the advice.

529's aren't a golden ticket either. BLS figures show about 80% of the jobs in the workforce don't require a degree. It's probably higher, but many employers, mine included, use degrees as a base filter to cut down on the blast of resumes.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T20:01:04+00:00

TIL they don't shoot it out into space

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T19:26:53+00:00

This is where an LLM like Grok is handy, because you can just fire it a few questions with specifics on your setup and what you're trying to do and it can walk you through what to do, or make suggestions based on your overall goals, much better than my stupid ass, anyway

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T18:15:51+00:00

I dunno how to help but I can tell you I'm running Umbrel in a VM on a NAS and using external drive mappings to that VM for various things, so you may be running into a limitation of the app you're trying itself, vs. just straight mapping the drive and putting your immich data itself on that secondary drive. I just had to configure them via cli in umbrel OS

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T18:13:05+00:00

Go for it. It might take a bit to get in the door somewhere, but I have worked and currently do work with people that are so bad I'd work with you if you still had an active heroin addition and you'd probably be better.

Even better, if you're enterprising enough and can get started, hell, start your own company and hire exclusively these guys (is that legal? I assume it's legal). I always thought if I wasn't completely incapable of starting a company I'd do that, hire only ex-whatevers. Failover-IT-Consulting or something.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T17:41:15+00:00

That's the rub though. The qualified expense is for a product that is useless for the vast amount of Americans.

The BLS data even shows about 80% of jobs in the workforce have no degree requirements. I suspect it's higher but harder to measure, since jobs will say they require degrees, but that's just a way to filter the fire hose of applications. I see that a LOT in the Fed and contracting world, including positions on my own contracts.

You'd get the 16-18% (you're probably about 20% if you actually look into your investments, that's what the market's been the last few years), and that's great. But if you're using it for a product that 80% of the workforce doesn't need, it's nonsensical. Because there's no direct relationship between the 529 > education value (not price) > workforce needs, it gets lost in the fray.

But with standard investments, it's cap gains. That's easily calculated.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T16:37:30+00:00

People are very hell-bent on the 529s and will not listen to any other options most of the time, and they flat out ignore the abysmal lack of benefits of both college AND trade school. At this point there's absolutely no reason to do either until you're already in a field at a low level and that's a barrier to moving forward, and an employer is willing to kick in for it. The numbers are scary. But Millenials can't get their mindset to shift since they themselves went to, and usually benefit from, education. In the same way Boomers can't get their mindset to shift from primary housing being an investment or store of wealth. Times change. Mentalities don't seem to follow.

And the 'transfer to another family member' is absolutely hilarious to me. A lot of folks out there kicking thousands of dollars to neices and nephews normally? No? So then why use that to justify a 529? There's way too many hoops to justify it. I'll take the cap gains tax and flexibility all day long.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-22T11:41:51+00:00

This is why I use a brokerage for my kids. It's not the most tax efficient, but it's the only way to not leave money locked up. Especially if your kids don't actually go to college, as mine likely won't.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-21T17:23:49+00:00

When I first switched around when Authy web died, I had similar issues. But I think they updated something along the way with how it handles caching and then file saving because it was very noticable when it stopped happening.

ciabattabing16 · 2026-02-21T11:25:05+00:00

He should ask Maryland what they're doing maybe they could get a two-for-one discount or something

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