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It's not about trying to boot off the micro-SD card, it is being able to just pop out the card, and get all the data that was stored on it.
by ansible 7y ago
It's not about trying to boot off the micro-SD card, it is being able to just pop out the card, and get all the data that was stored on it.
- pdimitar 7y agoWell sure but most smartphones -- both iPhones and Androids -- do periodic automatic cloud backups. The ability to do offline salvaging does not seem like such a big selling point to me.
- loudtieblahblah 7y agoI disable cloud updates for privacy reasons and bc backups of that size would cost more money than my own solution As for offline salvaging, do you realize how many phones have had bugs that resulted in boot problems in the last 10 years?
- pdimitar 7y agoI do, but I am not sure what can I do -- Androids are no longer an option for me because Google is way too obvious and they collect everything they can, 24/7. It's too much. As for privacy, I would disable cloud sync and backups as well. But eventually came to the sad conclusion that I have a lot more going on in my life and I cannot sacrifice even more of my preciously little free time to self-manage all my data -- not to mention this would require a moderate investment in my own NAS / 10Gbps switch / 10Gbps router and end-to-end encrypted backups to 1-2 VPS-es. I get where you are coming from, I do. But I had to make a choice between an actual life and paranoia. I settled for a "mostly ok" solution and a bit more of a personal life and free time. If privacy and offline-first own personal data get commoditised, I'll be the first to switch away from cloud (and thus Apple).