Not to excuse MS crap, but you consented by not managing the system during setup. If you accept defaults, you’re consenting to what someone else thinks about how your system runs.

I’ve never once had Windows do updates behind my back, because I configure the update system as part of setup. At work, we manage the updates for all systems.

Hahaha, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown.

All companies with more than a handful of employees, have HR. It’s a legal issue for them.

Salary vs hourly really has fuck all to do with this.

Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they’re also there to protect the employees.

Their primary responsibility is to protect the company, protecting employees only matters in the context of protecting the company.

Didn’t bother reading the rest, because you’re already bullshitting.

Source: almost 4 decades in very large (tens of thousands of employees) companies

I wonder if maybe some kind of notification system for her, and you, would be useful (in addition to blocking).

Then maybe you can interrupt her, perhaps talk about it, or setup some tools for her to use to help manage stuff and learn along the way.

Guess what I’m going for is the learning/growth angle, rather than just automatic constraints (which hy themselves don’t teach or help us learn to manage this stuff ourselves).

Seems like there’s a need for all this for all kids, not just neuro-atypical.

Ah, OK.

Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.

BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you’re looking at support the capability? I haven’t looked into enough of them to know for sure.

That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but… It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won’t use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.

(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don’t really trust).

Oh, cool, that’s slick. I didn’t know this existed!

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.

What do you mean by “possibility to upgrade storage other than just replacing drives with bigger ones”

That’s pretty much all you can do with a fixed number of drive slots.

Today’s NAS’s use some form of ZFS/BTRFS, so they’re really good at handling new drives. Though I think dynamic expansion is just coming on line in the latest versions, and may not be in production just yet

I can’t speak to NAS, I’ve always “rolled my own” because no one makes what I want, let alone in a price point I can manage (I like to use 2.5" drives with a moderately powerful system as a media center/home server, etc, for compactness). My current box is an old small-form-factor desktop that maxes out at 3 drives, though I have 5 shoved into it.

For photos I use Syncthing (specifically Syncthing-Fork as it has more flexibility) on my phones to sync the DCIM folder to an always-on machine at home.

My DCIM folder syncs to a folder in my user profile on the server, other people sync to their respective folders. I permit this sync job to run in any network, with any power (AC or battery), so I never lose pictures I take.

This has a benefit of enabling me to manage photos from a pc, and those changes sync back to my phone (I generally move the photos out of the synced folder to somewhere else, this has the effect of removing them from the phone). Just don’t use the built-in photo backup sync job, which only syncs photos from phone to PC.

Nice thing about Syncthing is you can sync anything anywhere however you want. Windows, Linux, Max, iOS (using Möbius).

I currently sync hundreds of gigs between several phones and several PCs. I have about a dozen sync jobs (folders in SyncThing terms). I also sync other folders from phones, to enable file management from a PC, since changes will be synced back with two-way sync jobs.

The MDM APIs in android land are a hot mess

Ain’t that the truth.

I avoid Google stuff, actually going Google free on the phone I’m setting up now, so Family Link is out for me. And I try to avoid all-eggs-in-a-basket anyway.

Yea, it sucks. I’ve looked at a LOT of MDM for Android.

Hmm, I couldn’t find that anywhere. Thanks again.

Oh, cool. Thanks for the recommendation!

What’s Activity Watch do?

I looked at Github, by like so many projects there, the descriptions vary from minimal to non-existant.

For phone, a couple things.

Look for Mobile Device Management. I’ve been meaning to do this for family for years.

Flyve is an open source MDM. I’ve only tested it so far. You may want to look around for others.

To help with file management on Android, I setup sync jobs between the phone and a desktop (or a user’s laptop) for certain folders, things like DCIM, Download, Movies, Pictures, etc (and certain app data folders such as Camscanner) using Syncthing-Fork on the phone, and Syncthing or SyncTrayzor on a pc. Doing this enables file management from the pc, as changes can sync back to the phone (and since I want my photos on my pc anyway…). Syncthing can work across most any network, including the internet and your phone data plan (so don’t let it sync big stuff using data). It can be locked with a password too, to prevent little hands from mucking things up.

You could, in theory, just let it sync the entire sdcard, but lots of stuff changes all the time, such as app data in the Android folder. No reason to sync that stuff. Plus doing that doesn’t permit finer control of sync for things like DCIM, which I permit to sync over any network and any power state.

Syncthing also works between two or more phones, or PCs (windows or Linux), and has lots of flexibility for sync. I use it extensively to share stuff with friends so we don’t have to think about sharing, especially for larger files. I sync files between phones with no PC, some sync jobs use a pc as intermediary so both phones don’t need to be connected all the time, etc.

Another sync tool, Resilio, is really good. But on the phone it’s a major memory and battery hog, so I use it only for it’s selective Sync feature, and keep it turned off otherwise.

These are just my ideas, everyone’s use-case is different. Your problem is one I’ve been lazily working on for years, so I look forward to the other ideas that come up here.

Talk about dumb.

Are you going to assume the risk of this change, and pay the millions upon millions of dollars to make it happen, and for what benefit?

We have thousands of devices that simply don’t support it (because they were designed before IP6 existed. You going to pay to replace them, and the labor to replace them, and the reprogramming to replace them, and the RISK you create while doing this?

Dumb is right. Hubris is another word that comes to mind.

Why should I use IP6 in my small home network?

Or in an SMB where there are less than 100 IP’s used on a daily basis?

First I have to pay the cost of transition, along with the risk of things not working while I do this, and then the risk of something new being added and not working.

There’s simply no value in these environments to switching, and a lot of risk.

Now let’s look at Enterprise, where you have thousands of desktops, probably thousands of servers, extensive networking that already works (along with many, many devices that don’t support IP6, like printers, scanners, access control devices, surveillance hardware, etc, etc). Are you going to pay the tens of millions to transition, and assume the risk?

IP6 is good for backbone right now. It will slowly transition into LAN for larger environments (think Enterprise when they setup new network segments, since they’re buying new hardware anyway. But only after extensive testing.

But IP4 is just fine for small networks, and I don’t see any reason for IP6, ever, for home and SMB LAN.

Pixel is clean, from a battery saver perspective, so that’s probably not your issue.

Not sure what to do next. I’ve used it for about 10 years now, and keep gobs of stuff in sync with it.

I do recommend Syncthing-Fork for Android, it moves the sync conditions into the individual since folders, so you get finer control.

Do you get any errors on the desktop console? On Android, if you launch the web client you get much more info and configuration capability (Menu - Web GUI). Once there, click the gear at the top right, and open Logs. Maybe there’s something there that can help.

SSD only?

Look at Mr Moneybags over here. That would increase my cost about 400%

And no, I wouldn’t recoup that in energy cost reductions, as my oldest NAS with ancient drives only draws a few watts 97% of the time.

Yea, I like Resilio, but it’s a battery and ram hog.

Syncthing should work fine for you.

Does your phone have some custom battery management? Some vendors do that, and it causes issues.

Fork works much better on Android, largely because it moves sync conditions into the individual sync jobs (what ST calls folders).