Check out Teleguard from SwissCow.

I haven’t seen an analysis of their privacy claims, so I’m not really sure. What I know is I like how the connect new device process works - you essentially restore a backup to a new device, which requires the user ID and a code.

They have a free and a paid tier, which they seem to be marketing toward business.

I’ve found Telegram performance to be excellent.

As for privacy with it… I wouldn’t trust it overly much. Which is frustrating, because from a performance standpoint it’s solid. Messages show up instantly, on all devices, Android, iOS, Windows, etc.

I wouldn’t consider Zoom to be privacy minded at all.

Buried deep in the article:

Hackers stole admin credentials for these devices.

So, yea, you have the creds, you can modify the OS any way you want.

It wasn’t because the devices were EOL (as implied in the beginning of the article), it’s because of poor credential management.

Thought I saw a headline about him living 90 days, implying he didn’t live longer. Sorry, I didn’t click on it to verify that my inference was accurate.

So this worked on Mint before?

If so, what’s changed on either end since then? Had there been an update to either Graphene or Mint since the last time it worked? Maybe Graphene improved a security feature or you need to reset the approval on the phone (maybe toggle the USB debugging setting).

I don’t bother with MTP for file transfer any more - at best it’s clunky and tedious, at worst it’s unreliable. Better to use network.

Setup a share on your PC, and use Mixplorer or any other network-capable file explorer on Android.

Even better, use an app like Syncthing or Resilio, and you’ll never think about file transfer again.

I have a Syncthing sync pair/folder for every folder on my phone to my home server, so I can manage files there and the changes sync back to my phone. This also provides a first step to backing up my phone. (Use Syncthing-Fork for finer control of each sync folder).

There’s one folder I specifically setup for that random file I want to send to my phone. It syncs over any network, under any charge condition, so files show up nearly instantly (at most a minute later). I could tweak that sync folder to scan more frequently, but it’s responsive enough.

Alternatively, using Resilio Sync you can selectively sync files from your PC, from the phone itself. The “Selective Sync” option is something Resilio has that Syncthing doesn’t.

Both of these have an a phone and PC app. Install on PC, Select folders to sync and they’ll index those folders. Install on phone, and select the local folder to connect to the sync jobs (folder) in the app.

I’ve found Resilio is hard on memory for the phone because it keeps the index in RAM, so I only run it when I want to grab files from my home pc. If you only sync a couple small folders, this isn’t an issue. I use it for selective sync of my media folder (which is terabytes), so the index is large. This way I don’t sync my entire media folder but can grab any music or movie file, from anywhere, and then I close Resilio.

I think SMS Backup Restore can export to HTML.

Nice solution!

My last couple have been used, off Craigslist. So slightly older models. That also means they are less likely to have the phone-home nonsense. And I refuse to ever own an inkjet again.

Currently running a 2013 HP consumer B/W, and a 2018 Canon Color laser. Neither care about internet.

Why the hell does a printer need to “call home” for anything anyway?

Man that really grinds my gears. So now I need to isolate my printer in a VLAN and only open a port for my server to access it so it can be shared there, to keep it from accessing the internet.

I’ve found refurbed HP lasers (older ones, that have NICs but before this web crap) - they’re looking pretty attractive…

That would be dual homing using both cell and wifi networking.

I don’t think iOS can do this - and I’d be hard-pressed to make it happen on Android (honestly I don’t think it can be done, maybe with root, even then, I’m not sure).

You could either ignore the special bit “requirement” (though with MDF I suspect it’ll be problematic), or reproduce it using two bits, or just buy the bit, it’s $20 on Walmart/Amazon/Ebay, a pittance in the woodworking world.

That sweet, sweet data.

Wow, 50 lbs (~20 kg) per stud, with a bunch of screw holes in the base plate. Problem solved, and you could just use a number of wood screws into the ply panel, just spaced well apart (like 2.5-3 cm), and anchor into a stud where you can with a long lag (3"/~8cm).

Or if you can only hit a stud on one side, use a single Molly on the other and a couple wood screws in between.

I don’t think too many people will get caught short. I haven’t seen a company using it since before MS acquired it.

In the publishing/layout world, there are much better products… Or there used to be. PowerPoint and Word can’t come close to what a page layout program can do. I use it all the time for simple stuff that would take longer using Word, and I wouldn’t even try even slightly complex stuff with word.

I suspect of lot of page layout is outsourced by companies any more, which is why MS is killing it. Weird.

Guess I need to find the latest full version, I only have Pub 2016.

I’d drill a hole in that plate, then use raceway on top of the plate, to the corner, and on from there as needed.

If you can, get a flatter plate. Otherwise you may want to trim the raceway to match the height of the plate for a neater finish.

I recently went to buy tickets to see a stage play at a local community theater. Turns out last play I saw there was 15 years ago.

Wtf? Why do you have info on an account I haven’t logged into in 15 years?

Until there’s real fines for data loss, these companies won’t change. Hell, for all I know they have friends in the dark web/hacker world and “leak” credentials to them.

I’ve been worried about this with Publisher since MS acquired it in the mid 90’s. It’s always been a niche product (I used it before it was an MS product).

Frankly I’m surprised it’s survived this long.

Thankfully I have a standalone copy. Screw Office 365.

I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

Dude, I lost that faith during my first month, decades ago.

Even worse, Robert Pirsig documents the loss in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, written (partly) about his experience as a professor in the 1960’s.