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I need an open source program to allow me to search the pictures that I've saved on my hard drives. Once I have that, I'm deleting everything in Google Photos.

Any recommendations?

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I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

So...suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks!

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I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

So...suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks!

#cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

So...suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks!

#cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

So...suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks!

#cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

Hey lovelies 🩷

Question for any of y'all who have more knowledge than we do in relation to fixing networking issues within Windows 11 :Windows_11_Logo:

One PC on our network had been having intermittent networking issues on Windows 10, so we did an in-place upgrade to Windows 11 24H2.

This did fix some issues, but we're still having 2 major issues:

1. The PC can see, but refuses to connect to, our Synology NAS (DS220J). It keeps asking for a username and password, like it's failing authentication.
2. Other Windows-based PC can connect to it, and it can see them, but Kodi on a Fire TV stick (4K Max, 2024 model) refuses to connect to it over SMB (Samba), giving a "no route to host" error message.

We've reviewed guides such as:

• Accessing a third-party NAS with SMB in Windows 11 24H2 may fail
• Control SMB signing behavior
• Detect, enable, and disable SMBv1, SMBv2, and SMBv3 in Windows

... and made some settings tweaks. We've also gone through common troubleshooting tips such as:

• Making sure the connection is private;
• Making sure that filesharing is enabled;
• Tweaking SMB connection settings in Synology NAS;
• Deleting and manually re-entering the login details for the Synology NAS under the credentials manager;
• Changing the minimum (no minimum, 1, 2) and and maximum (3) SMB level on Kodi;
• Updating Windows and drivers;
• Using DISM and SFC;
• Group policy updates;

... but sadly to no avail.

We're trying to avoid a clean install, as there's a lot of stuff we'd need to reinstall, and we don't have the time, executive function, or (most importantly) and patience and emotional regulation to do that right now 🥺

Any thoughts?

Update, 2025-07-11:

With the help of suggestions from lovely folks, it looks tenuously like both issues have been resolved on the PC 🤞🩷

We didn't make it clear above, but both versions of Windows are the Pro versions. (Used a Home version of WIndows - XP Home - only once. Never again!!!)

In case it helps anyone else, here are the additional steps we took, based on comments, to resolve the issues described above:

• Checked router (RX-AX88U) to check no DHCP issues.
  • Realised that the MAC address on the static IP address section for the PC was for the onboard NIC, rather than the PCI-E one we'd previously installed. This hadn't caused issues previously, but we did take the time to update this.
• Reset the IP stack.
• Uninstalled SMBv1 by removing from Windows Features.
• Disabled SMB1 and verified that SMBv2/v3 enabled (per guide here).
• Disabled SMB client signing requirement and enabled guest fallback protection (per guide here).
• Deleted saved credentials for the Synology NAS again under Credential Manager
  • We'd done this previously, but it hadn't worked by itself.
  • Interestingly, when we deleted it once, it then reappeared, so we had to delete it twice.
• Rebooted.

On the Fire TV Stick (4K Max, 2024), we'd also checked that the Kodi settings showed a minimum SMB protocol of V2.

Under the Synology NAS (a DS220J), we'd previously also gone into Control Panel > File Services > Advanced Settings > General and set:

• Minimum SMB protocol to SMB2;
• Transport encryption mode to Client defined;
• Server signing status to Forced;

... per recommendations we'd read online.

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