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Does it only happen with these two drives? i would try with some other HDD/SSDs or two usb sticks. that way you can test if its some weird hardware incompatibility that sometimes happen between specific devices or if the board wont support more then one connected usb drive in general.

Because then:

• you also need to know the correct username
• audits and logging shows which user used sudo to gain root access

As far as I know sending and receiving SMS through KDE connect, I’m using the gnome implementation Gsconnect, should work flawlessly. Not the prettiest experience but it works. GSconnect comes with a message viewer that even let’s you browse old SMS

Your own nextcloud instance. Then move everything that is saved at Google over to your own server.

Calenders, Filesync, Contacts sync with android works really nice.

Knowing my data is stored only on my own devices and google doesn’t know more about me than I do is a nice feeling.