Thanks for posted what you got. I will be looking into those! Nice price!

Samsung buds FE. They were like $60 bucks I had nearly the same goals. Cheap enough love them. I am nearing my second year and I use them daily.

I don’t use assistant. The charge port us USB-c Noise canceling is ok. I use mine to fall asleep to audiobook or listen to podcasts while doing yard work. (I use proper hearing protection over the buds) Touch controls are default: one tap play/pause and long tap for ambient/noise cancel.

I did download the app to change touch settings on another old phone with google play services. To make double tap skip for podcast ads. Volume… I think these might miss that. Not sure tho. Not a need I have.

Wormhole or croc

Did you do it? Did it fix it?

I use hyper backup to backblaze pretty cheap and to a friends house were I just have a smaller Synology and use hyper backup to store a copy there. And use hyper backup to backup hourly snapshots to a external 12tb drive. I’m only backing up photos from my phone and wife’s phone. And some docs . So it’s maybe 3tb on my main NAS.

So maybe just get a cheap 2 bay Synology? They are like $200 on amazon.

Do you have any resources for a similar setup?