I use Syncthing to backup WA and Signal

But isn't it quite useless to backup WA when it's all encrypted and you can't backup the key?

The backup key is shown the first time you enable encryption.

I guess they've changed this in the last 2 years or so because last time I checked they kept your key hostage and only allowed transferring all data, including the key, to a new phone.

I'm using this method since 2020 or even before. I've never ever enabled the backup on GDrive.

Is your phone rooted?

No, it isn't.

Would you happen to have good resources detailing the process?

Pretty much what I summarized back in 2019: https://scarpino.dev/posts/automated-phone-backup-with-synct...

Nowayadays Syncthing is no more maintained due to some PlayStore drama, but Syncthing-Fork is a good replacement.

Thank you for this. Just adding this here:

There seems to be an issue with recent Android apis that make file access painfully slow that it wasn't able to sync my data in 1 full day. Enabling the "Case Sensitive FS" option on the folder helped a lot.

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/issues/1088#...

I'll start from there, thanks!

I uploaded it as soon as I finished and tested it, there's still a lot to do, but I'm surprised nothing like this already exists?!

May I suggest Choqok as desktop client? It handles both GNU social and pump.io (and twitter), and I'm working to implement missing features because it seems we lack client here

Is there another client that is not reliant on KDE? Also, I thought pump.io is GNU Social?

GNU social is a fork/continuation* of the StatusNet software (PHP, "OStatus" protocol). pump.io is a similar piece of software (node.js, "Activity Streams" protocol) written by the original StatusNet developers.

*It started life as a fork, but in June 2013 they merged and it became the continuation.

I suppose the SailfishOS for console games is a joke: https://twitter.com/JollaHQ/status/583176660821913600

This is a good list of games, which can be used in SailfishOS's console: http://www.tuxarena.com/2014/02/several-great-linux-terminal... :)