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It's reasons like this and the Google Photo situation that make me shake my head when people say "You don't need an SD card slot on your phone when Google has a

by NoSalt 6y ago

It's reasons like this and the Google Photo situation that make me shake my head when people say "You don't need an SD card slot on your phone when Google has all these awesome 'free' services."

Macha 6y ago
The recent trend of service fragmentation and media appearing and disappearing from service to service has sent me back in time to protect my ownership - for the first time in a decade, I have an optical drive in my primary computer so that I can rip Blurays, my previous method of obtaining media to keep was to buy it on iTunes and use Tuneskit to strip the DRM, though that's been broken for nearly a year now after Apple cut off the fake AirPlay device method they used to get the raw video data. Should DRM-free stores for music go the way of the dodo, I guess I'd have to buy physical media there too, or just go back to piracy
- crisnoble 6y ago
  I have restarted buying CDs and paper books for the same reasons.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  > my previous method of obtaining media to keep was to buy it on iTunes and use Tuneskit to strip the DRM, though that's been broken for nearly a year now What?! No it's not. iTunes + Tuneskit M4V Converter is how I watch a majority of movies and TV shows.
  - Macha 6y ago
    > M4V Converter for Win is currently not compatible with iTunes 12.10.2 and later > M4V Converter for Mac is currently not compatible with macOS 10.13 or above.
    - Wowfunhappy 6y ago
      Oh, huh! I never noticed, because I keep iTunes and Tuneskit isolated in their own Windows VM, and I'm using Apple's special 12.6.4 branch that supports managing iOS apps (but also doesn't get updates). This setup does work, quite well in fact...
dspillett 6y ago
Same. Though I have a history of bad luck with SD cards even if I try buy decent ones, so I instead spend extra on a phone with enough space[1][2] and regularly rsync the phone's contents to my home server and external backups (keeping both current status and historic snapshots so nothing is ever lost). OK, I'm paying for those resources but I'd have them for other reasons anyway. I do recognise though that this all marks me as not the "regular man on the street" in this context, so I'm outside the target audience for this sort of service from the likes of Google. When Google's app stopped playing my local files, I just switched to another. Not the one Google wanted me to switch to, but I doubt they'll lose any more sleep over my absence (unless I'm part of a larger minority than I assume) than I'll lose over uninstalling their old app and not using the new one. [1] I don't have a lot of music that I keep to hand on the device, the "lower priority" stuff I can stream from home when I have connectivity anyway, and clear large video recordings off fairly quickly [2] Though my current phone does have an SD slot, and not one that is blocked (as with my previous phone) when using the second SIM

by NoSalt 6y ago

It's reasons like this and the Google Photo situation that make me shake my head when people say "You don't need an SD card slot on your phone when Google has all these awesome 'free' services."

Macha 6y ago

The recent trend of service fragmentation and media appearing and disappearing from service to service has sent me back in time to protect my ownership - for the first time in a decade, I have an optical drive in my primary computer so that I can rip Blurays, my previous method of obtaining media to keep was to buy it on iTunes and use Tuneskit to strip the DRM, though that's been broken for nearly a year now after Apple cut off the fake AirPlay device method they used to get the raw video data. Should DRM-free stores for music go the way of the dodo, I guess I'd have to buy physical media there too, or just go back to piracy

crisnoble 6y ago
I have restarted buying CDs and paper books for the same reasons.
Wowfunhappy 6y ago
> my previous method of obtaining media to keep was to buy it on iTunes and use Tuneskit to strip the DRM, though that's been broken for nearly a year now What?! No it's not. iTunes + Tuneskit M4V Converter is how I watch a majority of movies and TV shows.
- Macha 6y ago
  > M4V Converter for Win is currently not compatible with iTunes 12.10.2 and later > M4V Converter for Mac is currently not compatible with macOS 10.13 or above.
  - Wowfunhappy 6y ago
    Oh, huh! I never noticed, because I keep iTunes and Tuneskit isolated in their own Windows VM, and I'm using Apple's special 12.6.4 branch that supports managing iOS apps (but also doesn't get updates). This setup does work, quite well in fact...

dspillett 6y ago

Same. Though I have a history of bad luck with SD cards even if I try buy decent ones, so I instead spend extra on a phone with enough space[1][2] and regularly rsync the phone's contents to my home server and external backups (keeping both current status and historic snapshots so nothing is ever lost). OK, I'm paying for those resources but I'd have them for other reasons anyway. I do recognise though that this all marks me as not the "regular man on the street" in this context, so I'm outside the target audience for this sort of service from the likes of Google. When Google's app stopped playing my local files, I just switched to another. Not the one Google wanted me to switch to, but I doubt they'll lose any more sleep over my absence (unless I'm part of a larger minority than I assume) than I'll lose over uninstalling their old app and not using the new one. [1] I don't have a lot of music that I keep to hand on the device, the "lower priority" stuff I can stream from home when I have connectivity anyway, and clear large video recordings off fairly quickly [2] Though my current phone does have an SD slot, and not one that is blocked (as with my previous phone) when using the second SIM