And depending on the OS on the other end:

Windows - SyncTrayzor

Android - Syncthing-Fork

iOS - Möbius

Linux - Syncthing

Syncthing is just such a great sync tool. Best alternative to it is Resilio Sync. They each have their pros/cons.

Ooh, good Ole malicious compliance.

Make it a check.

Even better, pay with visa. The processing fee will be more than 23¢

“raw dogging the Internet”… I chuckled out loud

One day, after I am done with -insert reason here-, I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

For some reason you’re “insert reason here” was dropped by lemmy. I guess a sequential less-than/greater-than messes with it.

So you have nothing to hide, eh?

Read more here.

These tvs, like smartphones, track lots of stuff. And the databases they feed make all sorts of inferences.

They even scan what you’re watching from other sources and can determine what show it is, and report that info too.

They know when you’re home and leave, to some extent.

I’ve read of patents for wifi tech in tvs that will connect to other TVs of the same brand for a connection if you don’t set one up.

They definitely use their own DNS, and probably have some hard coded IPs so you can’t block them phoning home via DNS (I’ve tested this myself). I can see this traffic even when I setup DNS blocks - they still hit the vendor’s service IPs (looking at you, Samsung).

These companies are openly antagonistic and adversarial to us, and you “have nothing to hide”?