When I take pictures (Google Camera) the location is not captured, even though I have the setting in the camera app enabled. If I open my maps app and then take a picture, the location data is saved as expected.

It seems like I'm not getting a 'GPS lock' with the camera alone. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

I have location data on my photos, but when they are uploaded to somewhere, eg Immich, the location data is lost. I've tried uploading using a couple different apps, both with the same results.

Anyone know why this data might be getting stripped?

Update: It's not that the image location data was getting stripped, it was just only present on some pics and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out if I open maps and my phone gets a GPS lock, the image location works fine. Just need to figure out why I need maps open and why photos can't do this

Regarding PGP being used between 2 providers, eg Google and Proton, what prevents Google from viewing the messages client side after they’ve been decrypted?

I have had Proxmox running nightly backups and saving them to my NAS for years now without any issues. I've been thinking that it would also be nice to have these copied over to my cloud storage (some smaller company, no available plugins).

I know Proxmox Backup Server exists, but not much more than that other than it can backup to popular cloud providers.

The cloud provider I have has a Linux client that will create a shared folder on the system. My thought was to mount the Proxmox VM backup location with CIFS, install my cloud client and then write a script to run as a cronjob that would copy files from the Proxmox VM to the cloud folder each night.

This feels a bit clunky so I just wanted to ask if anyone knew of a better solution.

Up until now, I’ve just been saving an emergency fund in a HYSA. I’m getting to the point where I’d like to put excess savings into the market, and am looking at something like the VOO ETF. It seems things are essentially at an ATH right now, and there are a lot of big political things happening at the same time.

Would it be ill advised to buy into VOO right now? I could hold this in my HYSA but at the same time, I’m not needing this money for a while and long term I would think the market will continue to rise.

I know there was news a couple days ago about Berkshire Hathaway selling their S&P 500 ETFs, but this made up ~0.01% of their total portfolio.

Between rent and school payments, I am paying quite a lot over ACH and am wondering if there’s any way to also get some benefits back from these payments.

There are cards out there like the “Fold” card that will give back up to 1.5% in BTC for ACH transactions, but that’s contingent on you spending a lot on other transactions and the card also has a $100 annual fee.

I don’t care if the rewards are USD, BTC or booster packs of Pokémon cards. I’d just like something back from these transactions.

There's a pretty popular savings chart in the personal finance community, and I just noticed it seems to be missing the option for when your employer offers an ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan) unless I'm completely missing it.

Where would you guys put it if you could add it to this chart?

For the last decade or so, my SO and I have been more or less dividing our expenses, and Venmo/ PayPal-ing the other as needed (rent, etc).

I know a lot of couples use a shared account that they both contribute to via direct deposit. How many of you do this? Any drawbacks or other options I haven’t mentioned?

For someone in their 30s, does the following allocations make sense? The goal is to have a fair amount of diversity and to more or less “set it and forget it”

55% VG INST 500 IDX 35% VG INTL STOCK IDX 10% VG TOT BD MKT IDX

I’m wondering if maybe there should be less in International and more in one of the other two, etc

My office/ lab at home uses around 600W when fully running, and I see that there are quite a few power stations that will comfortably handle that, and foldable 4 panel setups that can generate 300-400W.

Would there be any issues plugging a UPS (my lab has a few of them) into a solar power station such as this?

Is there some sort of feature I want to look for such as sin wave, etc to have this work reliably, or does a UPS not really care since the controller in the power station should be normalizing voltage, etc?

Does anyone know if a good server/ room to discuss LoRa/ Meshtastic projects?