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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I'm aware :) really, anyone that backs up anything at all shouldn't be using ONE THING for backups.

Personally, I use it to "sync" photos from my phone to my computer. I run nightly backups via a cron script.

Still, can't say I've had any issues so far