I keep a fairly close eye on my DNS traffic; it still does crash reporting through Crashlytics (which I just block), but that’s about it.

I just paid the whole 4$ for the pro version and to support an otherwise free app I’ve quite enjoyed.

No ads/tracking anymore.

Devs gotta eat.

For more manual stuff; Ssh and X-Plore File Explorer.

Internal, sd card, ssh, ftp(s), google drive, dropbox, and a bunch of other cloud providers; treats it all like one big file system that I can casually copy/move files between.

For just syncing files between folders: FolderSync. The ‘downloads’ folder on my phone is setup as a 2-way sync with a folder on my server. Drop a file in either side, click sync, file is in both places. I use this to keep most of the files on my phone backed up, not just syncing the download folder.

I did this with a regular rpi, one of it’s io pins and a single npn transistor a while back.

Multimeter to check which power button pin on the mobo is + vs -. - to the rpi gnd, + to the transistor collector, gate to the io pin, drain to rpi gnd.

Whenever the io pin goes high (positive), the transistor shorts the mobo pins ‘pressing’ the power button.

Script pings the servers ip to check if its not responding; then pulls the pin high for 6 sec to ensure the mobo is fully off, then low for 2 sec, high for 2 sec, then low again.

This was for a system that kept locking up while I was away, so I needed a way to remotely hard-restart it.

Sometimes the local prices are insane too.

I needed a new infrared thermometer the other day; cheapest one I could find locally that wasn’t a kids medical forehead thermometer with a tiny temperature range: $56 before tax.

Amazon shipped one for $25 incl tax+shipping.

I’m broke af atm. That makes a huge difference. I feel dirty even opening the app/site; but that price difference is absurd.