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Oh good lord the assumptions here are ridiculous. First off, I am an engineer, and I've built my own two way sync services. I know what it is. What I'm complai

Oh good lord the assumptions here are ridiculous. First off, I am an engineer, and I've built my own two way sync services. I know what it is. What I'm complaining about, and you would understand if you read the words, is that the setting doesn't say "this way for backups, this way for two-way sync and oh btw we remove all message backups when you toggle this on". Secondly your insinuation towards both myself and my girlfriend that this is a solution I forced upon her that she doesn't understand is insulting. She was extremely upset by the lost messages and perfectly happy to explore a different system where I could help her back them up in a way she trusts. And it's just plain sexist to assume she won't be able to manage them in this way.

joecool1029 6y ago
>First off, I am an engineer, and I've built my own two way sync services. Then you should at least know that this is HN and you're supposed to make this an incredible journey and post a link to your clever sync product. > Secondly lol! Please see my earlier advice regarding low quality submissions, it applies to comments too. But since I baited you out and have your full attention, the reason I said that is because text messages and photos are highly personal information that people generally don't like to lose control over. > where I can manage Your words, not mine. If you said you'd build a system she could manage, I wouldn't have said it.
- robotmay 6y ago
  It's hardly baiting when I submitted the article myself and actually respond to comments. My girlfriend isn't technical, and she trusts me more than she trusts big businesses, shockingly. Her messages are Signal backups so I couldn't read them even if I wanted to, and she happily shares her millions of photos of animals with me anyway. She's the emergency contact for my offsite backup service if anything should happen to me, and they'll ship her a drive with our data on it. This is hardly a low quality submission but it's even more ridiculous to assume me a low quality person.
  - joecool1029 6y ago
    I'll repeat (for the third time) my earlier advice. Don't feed trolls, just flag my comments and move on. As for the rest you posted, I've only made the claim that you were very smart, that's it. If you want to project all this stuff about sexism and people quality, I don't know anything about that. Thanks for the enjoyable conversation though, gave me a good chuckle. Cheers!
    - viklove 6y ago
      > I'll repeat (for the third time) my earlier advice. Don't feed trolls, just flag my comments and move on. lmao, imagine being an idiot on the internet and still trying to pretend you somehow have the moral high ground

joecool1029 6y ago

>First off, I am an engineer, and I've built my own two way sync services. Then you should at least know that this is HN and you're supposed to make this an incredible journey and post a link to your clever sync product. > Secondly lol! Please see my earlier advice regarding low quality submissions, it applies to comments too. But since I baited you out and have your full attention, the reason I said that is because text messages and photos are highly personal information that people generally don't like to lose control over. > where I can manage Your words, not mine. If you said you'd build a system she could manage, I wouldn't have said it.

robotmay 6y ago
It's hardly baiting when I submitted the article myself and actually respond to comments. My girlfriend isn't technical, and she trusts me more than she trusts big businesses, shockingly. Her messages are Signal backups so I couldn't read them even if I wanted to, and she happily shares her millions of photos of animals with me anyway. She's the emergency contact for my offsite backup service if anything should happen to me, and they'll ship her a drive with our data on it. This is hardly a low quality submission but it's even more ridiculous to assume me a low quality person.
- joecool1029 6y ago
  I'll repeat (for the third time) my earlier advice. Don't feed trolls, just flag my comments and move on. As for the rest you posted, I've only made the claim that you were very smart, that's it. If you want to project all this stuff about sexism and people quality, I don't know anything about that. Thanks for the enjoyable conversation though, gave me a good chuckle. Cheers!
  - viklove 6y ago
    > I'll repeat (for the third time) my earlier advice. Don't feed trolls, just flag my comments and move on. lmao, imagine being an idiot on the internet and still trying to pretend you somehow have the moral high ground