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I still remember when this cloud thing was just starting, and some people were absolutely glowing that they can have 4 gigs in the cloud for only 5 bucks a month. At the time I had been drowning in 4GB and larger memory cards for probably a decade.
If only I had a phone with SD card slot.
Yeah thats another f*cked up story ;(
Use Resilio Sync and you can sync your device to any PC or server for free, or run Nextcloud or Owncloud and have true cloud for free.
I usually just use SyncThing to back things up, but yes that's the idea.
Would you mind elaborating on the difference/ your experience between Resilio vs Owncloud? I've poked around on their site but some user feedback / experience would be appreciated.
I run a Plex server on a Windows machine and could spare a few terabyte extra to host my own photo and video storage for my wife and i. Is this what these do? Ideally I would be able to set it up so it just uploads once you plug your phone in and are on the network. Or is that too fancy for either of these?
Thanks!
Resilio just works to synchronize data. That's All it does, across any operating system or platform, selectively or whole hog.
Owncloud or Nextcloud are meant to be similar to Google drive, a central repository with clients connecting, and a web interface.
Make sure you back it up occasionally. I lost years of photos after the card became corrupt. :(
Using a Samsung Galaxy A52s now, am very worried about what will happen when I need to replace it in 3-4 years; it's like the last phone that has nearly everything I want: microSD card slot, headphone jack, and OIS for the main camera. If it had a removable battery or at least easily replaceable battery it'd be perfect.
check Asus, I believe they're bringing back some features
Yeah, I'm on the hunt for a phone with these criteria right now as well...
I'm leaning toward the Zenfone 10 (poor international availability, no mSD), Xperia 1 or 5 (also poor int. availability, $$$), or maybe just sucking it up and getting a Pixel for GrapheneOS with a dongle :/
Look up Sony Xperia phones. They're expensive but they're quality phones with the features you want.
They have a finite number of read/write cycles in them. They are not meant to last more than about 10-15 years tops.
Make sure you back that up to an actual cloud storage or you may as well not use it at all.
Define "actual cloud"?
An actual cloud is a cumulation of water found in the that has condensed around condensation nuclei. There are three distinct forms of clouds: stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Stratus clouds are long and flat and blanket the sky in a uniform grey. Cumulus clouds are puffy—like cotton balls. Cirrus clouds are thin and wispy. Cirrus clouds are only found in the highest regions of the troposphere, whereas stratus clouds and cumulus clouds are found on all three levels of the troposphere. Clouds do not form in the layers above the troposphere.
Thats the point. To have them locally. Not to use any paid cloud storage. I hope you meant self hosted cloud storage like [email protected]
What revolutionary technology! They should make this but for desktops!
Its called USB XD
So where will you backing that up to because it will fail at some point, only a matter of time.
To an SD card in my tablet of course.
Did you hear about the 3 Backup steps ?
As someone clumsy who lives in a city with a lot of canals...
There are associated risks with this kind of "backup" also.
Nice, what phone are you using?
Motorola G6, a reliable oldie
What it your phone gets stolen? Thats all your data gone, what about sd cards corrupting? It happenes often, what about having left your phone at home and having to acces your documents? (Thats a very specific thing)
Then you didnt do the holy 3 Backup steps
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-computer-backup-rule-of-three
And if you really need really fast updates. Then why not use a self hosted NAS. Because there you can controll what happens to the data and not a big coorperation that scans through your files (even encrypted zip files).
And manually copying your data to 2 devices daily and haveing a offsite copy is easier/better than having a 99 cents/month icloud+ subscribtion?
There are enough open source, self host(able) free solutions. And if they are so important why are putting it on a untrusted provider aka apple that access the photos without your consent.