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.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      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.

      • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 days ago

        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.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 days ago

          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

          • dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            3 days ago

            I suppose that’s an issue in how your distro packages it and makes it a required dependency. It’s absolutely not a requires 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 kdeconnect and remove it freely.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      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.

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    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.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Depends.

    Android? Easy. Just plug it in and then just do the old drag’n’drop.

    iPhone? Oof. Um. Yeah… Uh…

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      My iPhone syncs to my Mac wirelessly. I open Photos, I drag and drop to desktop.

      I’m trying to figure out how to replicate this on Linux before I switch to Graphene and Linux fully.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        The main issue is/was when you have and iPhone and you don’t have a Mac and you don’t have an iTunes sync account.

        Sure, for an iPhone it’s all fine and dandy when you’re fully buying into their closed and restricted ecosystem. But try to step one tippy toe out of it and you’re in for pain.

        Anyway, as for the latter; KDE Connect, like the other guy said.

        • jama211@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          That is also not an issue. There are loads of ways. You can literally drag them out of the phone on a windows machine, it appears as a camera when plugged in. I can even open the files app on my iphone and drag them directly onto my windows server share. Or plug a usb-c thumb drive into the phone and whack em on there.

          It’s no longer 2009 lol.

          • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            I know that today it’s not as awful as it was, but those are fairly recent changes. Not something that was only briefly around at the beginning of the iPhone.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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?

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        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.

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      4 days ago

      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.