Humanius

Be sure to make regular backups of your data.
… and using RAID is not a backup.

That’s fair. I do miss the good ol’ HTC days.
I’m on the Google Nexus/Pixel train now though

Thanks for updating the title so people don’t misinterpret it as happening recently

This is an article from 2018.
Not sure why OP posted this

In other words, the price of the Pixel 8 Pro will be higher in order to include a smart watch that you may or may not even want

That’s a valid concern, but it also assumes that the requirements for apps will go up in a similar trend as they did in the previous 8-10 years.
I’m not entirely convinced that they will. Smartphones 10 years ago were still very much a developing product category, whereas I think today they are generally matured.

Just look at laptops as a comparison. When they were still rapidly developing, an eight year old laptop would have pretty much been obsolete. But today an eight year old laptop will still serve most people perfectly fine.

It won’t be top of the line, but I don’t really see why it wouldn’t still be usable at least.
And even if the person buying the phone today won’t consider it usable for their needs in eight years time, they can still sell it to someone who doesn’t have a need for a high spec’ed phone.

I think you can look at it similarly to how one would look at an 8 year old laptop today.
A decently spec’ed laptop from 2015 is still very usable today, as long as you keep your expectations reasonable.

Yeah I’m not saying it’s ideal, but it could be a solution to the specific problem that OP was running into

You can plug a USB hub into your phone. That’d give you more ports.
I’m fairly certain there are hubs out there with a pass-through for charging as well

How would one realistically go about testing their backup? Do you need a bunch of empty drives?

All my devices get named after cities. I try to make it somewhat relevant to the purpose of the machine.
Usually things related to the device (e.g. network shares) get named after neighbourhoods in the respective cities.

• Main PC: SAN-FRANCISCO,
• File server: SARAJEVO,
  • Shares: VRATNIK, BISTRIK, SEDRENIK, HRASTOVI,
• Work laptop: SEATTLE,
• Phone: BARCELONA,
• Media box: CANNES.

My boyfriend names all of his devices after planetary bodies, much like OP.
Thing related to the devices are named after the moons of the respective planet.

• Main PC: SATURN,
  • Drives: ATLAS, PROMETHEUS, TITAN, HYPERION, JANUS,
• File server: JUPITER,
  • Shares: GANYMEDE,
• Phone: PLUTO,
• Laptop: CHARON.

(He just realised that last one is inconsistent, and is renaming it to MERCURY)

You can still buy a lifetime “subscription” for enpass. It’s just significantly more expensive than what you and I probably paid for it at the time

Personally I’m using it to hold me over till Sync for Lemmy is released