Yea, gotta be something odd with your setup.

Currently I have one phone (of several) thats syncing en excess of 10,000 files, some only on Wifi (with 3 access points), some wifi/cell data.

ST knows the state of a file, so a disconnect should have no effect. If you’re getting corrupted files, I wonder if something else is going on which may also affect another sync tool.

Try Resilio for the same folders, see if you have the se problem (disable aybthing of course, otherwise conflicting edits will cause file corruption).

Syncthing runs encrypted anyway.

I’ve not had files get corrupted, that’s strange, for sure.

Some options (but it really depends on what you’re trying to do):

Resilio Sync (cross-platform, battery eater on mobile, but has a useful feature - Selective Sync)

FolderSync on Android (can also be battery intense)

Native tools and scheduling on Linux and Windows.

Maybe a review of the setup is in order, what your devices are, what you’re trying to do. Sync may not be the tool for what you’re trying to do.

I use a combination of tools for different jobs and devices.

Generally, all files on mobile are synced to home using Syncthing-Fork. For example, on Android I have a sync job(“folder”) in ST for every root folder on the device. These get synced to home depending on conditions (e.g. DCIM syncs over any network, any power condition, so I don’t lose photos, while Backups and Download only sync on power over wifi, since they’re big and not critical).

Between desktop OS’s I largely use OS-specific tools, because I don’t really need sync there, but file copy and comparison on a schedule.

After 10 years and probably 1TB+ of sync, I haven’t lost any files via ST. Currently have 5 phones running jobs back to a server. I’ve even moved Syncthing from one server to another with no issues. With how ST works, I think file corruption is highly unlikely - it even handles in-use files safely.

Meh, not a recent change.

Go read about the early “talkie” era. Same shit today as yesterday - Hollywood has always been a cesspool

There’s a vast difference though. You’re acting like we’re Luddites or something, when there’s already a concrete example of the problems you’re promoting.

Yes, we have to tinker with AI to understand it. But your approach is to shove it into everything when we don’t fucking want it in fucking everything.

Ffs can you be any more dismissive and denigrating by comparing us to luddites?

And, I’m probably mot much younger than you, and I can call bullshit on your claims. Nothing from 4+ decades ago compares to the Cloud and AI concerns, by orders of magnitude.

Yea, that’s a lot of ambiguity.

“Doesn’t work”. Well, yea, if you only install it on your phone - it’s a multi-device sync tool.

For Windows I recommend SyncTrayzor, for Linux and Mac it’s Syncthing, for iOS it’s Möbius.

I’ve installed it hundreds of times, the only time it hasn’t worked was between 2 Android devices of a specific version, and this is a documented thing.

An alternative to Syncthing is Resilio Sync. I use both, for different purposes.

Resilio is a battery eater on mobile, but it is a bit more consistent than Syncthing (though after 10+ years and probably terabytes of sync, it’s not like ST is problematic).

RS offers Selective Sync, so I don’t have to sync an entire folder, but can pick a file to sync “right now”. This is really useful for my media folder (~2.5 TB), since I don’t have that kind of free space on my phone. From anywhere I can fire up RS on my phone and grab whatever movie I want (or any file from my laptop, other phones etc, because all those files are synced to my server using Syncthing).

The Fork dev forked it years ago, well before the original dev stopped because of Play rules (which I really don’t get).

Anyway, I’ve used Fork for years now, it “just works”, plus moved all the config into each sync pair/folder.

Encrypted messaging is unrelated to phone numbers. That’s an issue of using apps like WhatsApp (which I refuse to use), and a beef I have with Signal (part of why I really don’t trust them).

Simplex doesn’t use your phone number, why would it? It’s not technically difficult to solve this, it’s a business/social/political issue.

Apps have no need of your telephone number, not that it isn’t hard to find anyway.

It’s a tough call, I don’t disagree at all with the concerns you pose.

However… Email is every bit as another data point for tracking you, and worse it’s in the clear. Every email address I’ve ever used over the years is in databases with IP addresses, timestamps, locatiin/region data, last used, associated device ID’s, etc… Plus any analysis from content that was ever done. Yahoo/Google, etc certainly know lots about the user of those addresses, even ones that aren’t their addresses.

I’d happily use an encrypted system(s). I’d simply create multiple accounts, and isolate them in different ways.

For example, my healthcare org sends nothing through email except a notification that you have some kind of update. You then log in to their system to view the info. I do wish they’d develop an app for iOS/Android, it’s a bit of a nuisance otherwise. In their defense, App dev with sensitive info isn’t their forte, so at least they aren’t opening that Pandora’s box.

I’ve been using email since it was text-based.

I think email for the average person is kind of dead. I rarely use it for personal comms, and it’s more of a repository of receipts and the occasional password reset.

I reluctantly use it for person-to-business.

Work? That’s not my concern. I use the tools that they manage.

Email is practically dead to me - it’s not encrypted, and plenty of encrypted systems exist that provide equivalent, and in some ways, better functionality for personal use.

I wish companies would start embracing them.

It’s like security was the last thing the energy industry considered.

Welp there’s a brand I won’t be buying.

Who am I kidding, I’d never buy that overpriced thing anyway.

Complaints have trended in the opposite direction, I’d say – without a case, some phones can be so thin and slippery that they’re hard to grip securely.

PLASTIC is the answer. Give me a plastic-backed phone like my S4 had, something with texture. I have a 4 year old Moto with a plastic back and I have no problem gripping it without a case. And it’s really thin too.

Also, bring back some interesting designs like we had in the mid-late 2000’s.

Start with one thing you want to do, the most important thing.

Enumerate the requirements of that thing (machine to host it on, the kind of OS it requires, network connectivity, etc).

You’re doing what I’ve always heard as “solutioning” - getting overwhelmed with potential solutions before clearly identifying the problem (e.g. Requirements).

Solve that first thing, then move on to the next thing.

Odds are you can get started with something much simpler than jumping feet first into solutions like Proxmox (which has nothing to do with your stated goals, it’s a storage/redundancy/virualization system). Forget about all that - if you eventually come to a point where you need those capabilities, you can deal with it then.

I would start with redundant local data and a cloud backup. Three local drives with data sync’d or mirrored is much easier/cheaper to get going than spending time setting up a NAS that you don’t know you need…yet.

Or, if you know you need a NAS, then start there and get that established, stable first. Then start your sailing efforts. Pretty much all NAS solutions today support some kinds of virtualization/containerization. I don’t recommend Proxmox as your start.

Edit: I’ve run different flavors of Linux on a laptop for this, with an external drive that got sync’d to a second external drive and to a third external on another laptop. That mostly protected me from local/drive/system failures, at least.

You can always add your own router between the cable company and your network. This is, after all, what the entire internet looks like.

I currently have 2 routers downstream of my cable modem, because I had them and it was easier than setting up a business class router.

Since ZFS keeps the config info on disk, I’m with another commenter wondering about your disk health.

Check the SMART data for each drive.

I find GBoard autoincorrect to be as bad as any other. I stopped using it because of that, and I’ve been on Android since 2009

I find GBoard autocorrect to be as horrendous as all the others, so it offers no tangible benefits.

Yea, buy three 4TB drives, one is master, the other 2 sync from master (can mirror or use a sync tool).

Then get a cloud backup service.

Shop for drives here.