Re:Setting up phones is a nightmare
by winterbloom on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:31AM
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who do you think gets in trouble if her phone dies and all her stuff is gone
storing things in the cloud is responsible
Just back it up once a week on the computer, that's what I do.
I don't even use a Google account on my phone. Most apps don't need it! There's only a handful that do, in particular ChatGPT that really insists you have a Google account logged in (why they force you to make an account with their direct competitor is beyond me but they do)
But perplexity is much better anyway so I use that.
local backups is responsible
Re:Setting up phones is a nightmare
by winterbloom on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:33PM
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yeah you might do that, but how many non-technical people can be bothered to do so?
And who gets in trouble when her iCloud account glitches itself and loses everything? Or when the network is dead and nothing works?
Local copies should always be primary and cloud copies secondary.
But you don't get to extract rent in that case which is why none of the big companies want to do things that way.
iOS/macOS is no better. My wife kept getting weird errors on her iPhone.
Turns out, her photos were only in the cloud and, quelle surprise, she had run out of room in "The Cloud(tm)" in spite of having almost half a terabyte free on her phone.
All the companies want to hold your data hostage.