cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43951539
#503 (2018-01-24)
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Do I have an account? I got an email about it
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Hey guys, I’m playing Pandemic Legacy and I was the first to eradicate the red virus so now I get to name it! Let me know if you have any good exocomics-related names :D
If you don’t know what Pandemic Legacy is then shhh don’t worry.
as a millenial, i avoid the cloud whenever possible
As a Gen-X, you’re damn right. Remember, the cloud just means someone else’s computer. On some occasions that’s okay, like a secure backup that’s encrypted. The rest, only put what you 1) don’t mind everyone seeing, and 2) don’t care if you lose.
yeah after i replaced my hundredth dying fan or harddrive, i decided it was okay to use someone else’s
On both counts:
Isn’t lemmy instances stored on servers, aka the cloud…?
I thought it was a riddle that I didn’t understand. But I also thought “photos” said “potatos” until I zoomed in.
So. Riddle. How do you move your potatos from your phone to your PC?
Do not try and move the potatoes. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth:
There are no potatoes.
Cries in Latvian.
Very carefully.
Well, you see the first step is to boil the potatoes. It softens the starches and makes the next step easier.
The second step is to mash roughly one half of the potatoes and set them aside.
For the third step, you will cut the remaining potatoes into roughly one inch (2.5cm) cubes. After that you will, and this is critical, stick them in a stew.
Let the stew simmer until the onions dissolve and the carrots soften.
Now you can serve the stew over the mashed potatoes and then smuggle them out of the phone in your stomache.
PlansPotatoes withinplanspotatoes.Trick question, in this economy my phone and my PC are my potatoes
I’m imagining it like a scene from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. You’re meatwad. Playing with potatos, and imaging they’re expensive electronics. But it’s just potatoes with magic marker drawn on them to look like a cell phone, and a PC.
How do I get my photos off my phone, automatically and without feeding the cloud.
I use syncthing.
That looks good for computers
There’s an Android app for it too.
Ok, thanks
Immich
I will check it out
It’s basically Google Photos but you host it yourself.
rsync
I use rsync for a few things server to server. Robocopy too, for a few usb backups of desktops.
KDE connect
That is way too unreliable to recommend.
At least based on my anecdote of trying it throughout the years across 4 phones and 5 machines, only having success on 1 phone and a laptop specifically.
I’m positively surprised by it ever since i started using openSuse. They seem to do something different, since i didn’t have any connection problems with it.
They most likely set up the firewall correctly.
killall kdeconnectd ; kdeconnect-cli -lFixes connection problems instantly. Yeah, I’ve put that into my crontab.
I only tried it on 2 phones, work both times both ways.
It’s worked on my computer and phone. Mind you I’m on iOS and windows. It works outside of the windows specific limitations.
Seems good, I just wish they’d let you fucking remove it if you don’t want to use it. Of all of the apps to stop the end user from removing, the one that’s made specifically to communicate with outside devices…
I don’t like that.
What? Where do you see it preinstalled that you can’t remove it? It’s an open source app, I don’t see why a vendor would install it and keep you from removing it.
It’s part of KDE Plasma and you cannot remove it completely. In my experience. You can kind of disable it in some ways. And block it in your firewall or whatever, but it’s part of the DE from what I understand.
Maybe it’s just the distros I’ve chosen.
Edit: well I’ve been on immutable for a handful of years now so maybe it’s on me. But I do remember it being annoying to remove on EndeavourOS as well but that was several years ago so maybe it’s better now
I suppose that’s an issue in how your distro packages it and makes it a required dependency. It’s absolutely not a required dependency of KDE Plasma and it’s optional. On Arch for instance it’s not even marked as optional and I can just do
pacman -Rns kdeconnectand remove it freely.I swear that didn’t work like ~5 years ago on EndeavourOS, but there’s a solid chance I’m just misremembering.
The cloud is a tool to charge you money to do simple tasks you could already do for free like move photos from a phone to a computer.
Li Chen’s comics are the best.
Is her cat floating?
Possibly 🤷🏻
You never know what our feline overlords get up to, especially in a comic set in a place that used to (more officially) revere them as divine 😉
Hey that’s not a riddle
Cloud: a hard drive in a rack in some country somewhere.
Personal NAS: Cloud, but better (amongst other things)
So, a hard drive in a rack in a better country?
That and much more!
Now, if only I could convince Jellyfin of the fact that its preferred ports are available, being properly forwarded and not reserved for anything else…
Hard drive - foreign rack (18)
It’s 2026 and Android MTP is about as stable as the US economy was in 2008 and Apple MTP is literally just a turd wearing a trench coat with the apple logo slapped on.
God forbid I want to transfer a file over a USB cable at USB cable speeds like a normal adult.
Immich is a bit of a heavyweight solution, but it’s what I ended up using.
Freakin’ Bronzoomers. They don’t know anything about tech.
I don’t get the whole “flood” angle but I liked the comic.
Just my go-to expression for “really fucking old” 😁
Just wait until you find out that the photo in question is of their screen.
I use a USB cable or pairdrop.net
