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phone storage hasn't mattered to me in years, what do you guys need the huge storage these days? the bulk of my data in the past was photos and videos, but now
by sergiotapia 2y ago
phone storage hasn't mattered to me in years, what do you guys need the huge storage these days? the bulk of my data in the past was photos and videos, but now those are uploaded to the cloud and i instantly delete from my local phone.
- m463 2y ago...as planned by apple Can you do this without apple managing your data? (it would be really nice to have a personal icloud replacement)
- sergiotapia 2y agoi use android and google photos because it's really cool to auto match faces of my friends and family. but think about it, how crazy that someone can steal your phone and you would be totally fucked, priceless memories lost forever. now with cloud that's a non-issue no?
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- paxys 2y agoIt doesn't have to be one or the other. Apple/Google can permanently lock you out of your iCloud account at any instant. You can only be sure of access to your data if it is physically on you.
- eightysixfour 2y agoYou can self host Immich for a photos replacement, including some of the neat machine learning tricks.
- Unearned5161 2y agoI like having things stored locally. I'm not always in a spot with great reception, so waiting for a video to load from google photos or whatever isn't an option.
- mise_en_place 2y agoRemovable storage should come standard with any mobile device. It's ridiculous to have to do these kinds of methods to increase storage.
- randmeerkat 2y ago> Removable storage should come standard with any mobile device. Removable storage should come standard with any device.
- renewiltord 2y agoSadly, Black and Decker no longer offers the Hammer + SD card combo deal.
- randmeerkat 2y agoTouché
- sneak 2y agoThe iPhone Pro supports high speed external removable storage via the USB-C port. I plug a thumb drive into my iPhone 15 Pro Max all the time.
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoNext EU regulation incoming.
- dyauspitr 2y agoI don’t want to hand over my pictures to a 3rd party.
- NavinF 2y agoWhy not? The major player in this space (icloud) can do end to end encryption and it's easy to do local backups on your NAS
- realityfactchex 2y agoLocal LLM models can be many GBs each. One can have many of them.
- wtallis 2y agoIs that something you actually do with your phone?
- userbinator 2y agoLook at all the hype around AI assistants lately. Having those run locally is definitely much better from a privacy perspective.
- wtallis 2y agoMany models of many GB each on a phone with only 8GB of DRAM doesn't make sense. Even on Android phones that have more DRAM than that, there's not enough performance for large models to be useful, let alone multiple models consuming tens of GB of storage.
- realityfactchex 2y ago> Many models of many GB each on a phone with only 8GB of DRAM doesn't make sense. > there's not enough performance for large models to be useful For iPhone, the Private LLM app offers 44 models in its easy-install menu right now (on 15 promax), with avg model size about 2.7 GB. Total GB is ~120 GB to install and compare them all. People could argue about what being useful means, but asking these different models the same question can give quite different (and indeed thought-provokingly different) results. They all have either different foundations or different fine tuning or something. The same prompt gives rather different answers depending on what model you pick. It's fun that way. So to compare their outputs, one would need 120GB free at once, then install them all, or else do some very inefficient and weird dance of uninstall-then-reinstall n times while picking and choosing which ones to try out for a given prompt. And that's just for one offline "gen AI" app. There might be others. This can be done offline, while on a walk, or whatever, without hitting any servers at all, in the palm of one's hand. Performance is good enough on iPhone for a bunch of tasks/prompts. So, IDK. Does part of that not make sense? These models not being run run at once, and don't need to be in RAM at once. They're being stored on disk at once to be used when wanted. They initialize one at a time when in use. The large disk size is for storing the models. The phone can then use the models when wanted. (Granted, it's not the "same" as hitting huge versions of the models sitting on some beefy infra, but we're talking about mobile devices here and actual current uses for having a bunch of local storage available on them.)
- relaxing 2y agoI’ve done the math on whether it’s cheaper to pay for 1tb of local storage or 1tb of cloud, and local wins.
- eddy_chan 2y agoWhat about for a whole family of iPhone users? I've got the 2TB cloud plan which my elderly parents are on, my kids are on and me and my wife are on which is letting us get away with the smallest class of storage for each device we have.
- skeaker 2y agoFair question! To figure this out, you could calculate the price per GB that you're paying and that you would pay for local and compare the two values. Cloud storage can and often does have a better deal in instances like yours! With that said, your instance is just your instance, and for swathes of people it will be cheaper to have local storage. Them having the option of local storage wouldn't hurt you, so I would hope for their sake you would still support giving them that choice.
- vachina 2y agoYour media is more valuable when stored locally, because they can be retrieved easily without waiting for network conditions.
- 6510 2y agothis consumes bandwidth, battery and cpu(?)
- devsda 2y agoIf you have the know how and the discipline to maintain proper backup strategy, then local storage(@ home) always wins over cloud in terms of pricing, flexibility or freedom.
- baq 2y agoIf you're shooting photos raw, it matters. (I don't know anyone who insta-deletes photos from their phone even if they don't shoot raw.) If you're shooting prores video... you have a portable usb-c jbod array, so I guess it doesn't matter indeed.
- xenospn 2y agoI have a lot of music on my phone. When I’m not in the US (I travel a lot), streaming music will eat up all of my data.