You don’t need a full backup of your phone, you need a backup of all the relevant data! What do you need to backup other than contacts and media in your home folder? (documents, downloads, music, podcasts, DCIM etc…)

If there is relevant data “locked up” in your apps can you export it in some form to somewhere like your downloads folder and sync that folder?

Yeah but you can also set it to copy your DCIM photos folder or whatever (if you want to backup files, make it a one way folder sync in the folder options in Syncthing), if Syncthing is limited it is because of Android’s filesystem limitations not Syncthing.

Also consider an option that uses termux if Syncthing doesn’t work such as this one that uses rsync and termux.

https://howtos.davidsebek.com/android-rsync-termux.html

^the above tutorial may look intimidating at first, but each step is explained very clearly

You can also use termux to install Syncthing and then take advantage of termux’s ability to work around Android file system limitations.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

Use syncthing and just sync all your important folders!

On F-Droid app store use Syncthing-forked

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/

There are probably other more wholistic and specific ways to do this with apps specifically designed for it, but Syncthing you can use for pretty much anything and any other internet connected device you have you can use Syncthing to share/backup files too.

You don’t even need internet to use Syncthing, it will work entirely over your local network if both devices are on the same network.

fair but this is VERY MUCH not a clickbait video, Just Have A Think is as high quality stuff as it gets!!

Yeah I was going to recommend the film too, of course it is narrativized in many ways in the way big budget movies like this are, but I also think it does a better job than The Wolf Of Wallstreet at NOT making the villains unironically look cool at the end even though the takeaway is supposed to be that the villains are bad.

This is also a decent list of stuff to check out.

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/02/04/facebook-booklist

No Zuckerberg made it to browse through all of the hot women at his school with other men more efficiently.

Facebook was conceived as a way to browse a web store of “female objects” easier.

Boys using toys for exactly what Men made them for…

ughhhhhh

I mean why did Zuckeberg make Facebook in the first place? The throughline here is direct.

Looking at your post history, it is clear you are obsessed with China to an unhealthy degree.

Answer my question

Do you not agree that Canada is far more directly complicit in the Palestinian Genocide and thus has far more agency and leverage to stop it than it does to influence what China is doing?

I think this is continually brought up as a way to distract from the fact that the US and Canada are DIRECTLY complicit in the Palestinian Genocide whereas the situation you are talking about is under the the umbrella of another empire.

Alex Cosh, the news editor of The Maple, has explained: “First, and most obviously, these contracts use taxpayer dollars to help sustain the profitability of Israeli companies that play key roles in supplying the Israeli military with the tools it needs to carry out the genocide in Gaza. Second, by feeding the growth of Israel’s domestic arms industry, Canada is helping Israel to reduce its reliance on foreign imports, thus weakening the potential impact of current and future arms embargoes on Israel.”

https://pbicanada.org/2026/06/29/israeli-arms-exports-reach-record-levels-in-2025-as-does-the-killing-of-palestinian-human-rights-defenders-and-journalists/~___~

I hope you also support divestment from Israel.

before anyone says Microsoft/Xbox are idiots and are sabotaging themselves… yes they are but also this strategy is an extremely successful longterm strategy so long as you have enough money to survive the temporary collapse and can buy up large chunks of the industry during the downswing.

Eventually if you keep doing this then you own most of the industry and neither developers nor gamers have any choice but to accept the crap you serve them. Problem solved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

No, that is the healthiest/least draining thing to do, the militant and most effective thing to do is relentlessly shit on corporate social media with your old corpo account while moving the rest of your social identity to the fediverse.

Obnoxiously link to the fediverse, talk about it unprompted, strip mine the relevance of your posts to the algorithm before you leave.

I am not saying everyone has to do this, I am not even necessarily recommending it as a general suggestion but this is clearly the best way to hate on billionaire social media and fight back against it. If you have the energy, don’t throw away the value of your social connections to the corpo algorithm without first converting as much as possible of it to awareness of the fediverse and how shitty corpo social media is, if your objective is to fight as hard as possible.

edit corporate social media is toxic as hell, I make this point not as a judgement of people who just log out and never log back in to corporate social media, take care of yourself, this strategy is for if you have the mental headspace to do it.

Do Both

This is one of the reasons why the narrative is nonsense that renting games is better because you can easily own “too many games” if you keep buying them and then… oh no!!! You own too many digital games!!!

When you buy an indie game you are supporting art whether you get to the game or not, remember that, which isn’t to say buy random games but I think this statistic underlines how much it does matter to the smaller game developers to take a leap and buy their indie games. It helps that they usually cost 1/50th the cost of a AAA game lol…

It just makes you sad when you remember Musk wasn’t on it.

No shit

Unfortunately no the extreme weather conditions right now are not really a product of El Nino, I mean they are to a degree but we have only fairly recently actually moved into an El Nino proper… what they are is a product of much more worrying extreme global sea surface temperatures that have dominated for the last several years.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

To put it another way, the big swing in chaotic weather frequency and shifts of zones of precipitation and dry zones we are experiencing right now is a much more monumental signal that El Nino will graft onto in ways that… well we aren’t really sure what ways that this interaction will happen…

Yes but part of the selling point a lot of the time does perversely come back to US-centric companies providing the leaders of Governments and Corporations a Backdoor-As-A-Service product to force upon those lower down in the pecking order.