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I think the biggest lesson here is to back up. The reason for losing access to the phone is amazingly dumb but it could have fallen down the stairs for basicall
by PufPufPuf 6mo ago
I think the biggest lesson here is to back up. The reason for losing access to the phone is amazingly dumb but it could have fallen down the stairs for basically the same effect.
And do your could backups cross-provider. You never know what the "big players" are going to pull, and your lifetime customer value is less than the cost of a single support call.
- anal_reactor 6mo agoThis is exactly the reason why I keep all my shit on an SD card despite Google deliberately making the external storage experience as painful as possible: slow access, broken writes, failed unmounts, no filesystem repair. Literally every time I restart my phone I need to put the card to my PC and repair the filesystem. Also, same card works extremely well when plugged into PC via random cheap USB card reader. On PCs you still have Linux that resists enshittification and you can pick your own hardware, but it's a really sad state of affairs that there is literally no meaningful mobile system that isn't actively hostile to the user.
- yangm97 6mo agoThere’s a number of mobile Linux distributions around, some even run Android apps. People need to wake up to the fact that Android has become iOS but worse.
- CTDOCodebases 6mo agoThe thing that bothers me about Android is the gimped file manager. You wan't to access some files off your network using smb? Here install this third party tool and don't forget to give it full read/write access to your device.
- nirava 6mo agoI just have a cheap second hand PC with a couple of good drives running LAN only Immich and a few other backup tools. This, in parallel to cloud backup, makes the setup both mobile and reasonably fault tolerant. I'm quite wary of using SD card for backup. Too easy for me to lose.
- Cpoll 6mo agoYour case is obviously not this, but SD cards aren't a great primary drive, as Raspberry Pi power users sometimes discover. Their durability can be unpredictably spotty.
- fsflover 6mo agoGNU/Linux exists on mobile, too. Sent from my Librem 5.
- anal_reactor 6mo agoTell me more about this
- fsflover 6mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39461180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39461180
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoBiggest lesson is Apple should allow you to downgrade OS, especially on old devices. Or release some sort of open version once device is EOL'd.
- relaxing 6mo agoThen an attacker could load an older, exploitable OS and gain access.
- gambiting 6mo agoWeirdly I care more about my rights as the owner of the device than the rights of a theoretical attacker.
- PierceJoy 6mo agoSo don’t buy an iPhone if you don’t care about the security of your device and personal information. That would introduce a massive security hole that would negatively affect far more users than it would help.
- somenameforme 6mo agoI doubt that. The group of people you're talking about are those who have their phone maliciously stolen by people who are actively working to hack/exploit their way into the devices and then actively exploit the information stored on them. That is a utterly negligible percent of users, or even of users who have their phone stolen. The overwhelming majority of thieves of intent move the devices onto professional orgs that wipe them, jailbreak them, package them, and then ship them on to other entities that resell them. The percent that might want to choose a different-than-latest version of OS would also of course be quite small, but I suspect it would be orders of magnitude larger than the other group we're speaking of just because that group of people is going to be so absurdly tiny.
- jrmg 6mo ago
- CTDOCodebases 6mo agoThe biggest lesson here is don't buy Apple products. Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave if he could see the software quality of the products that Apple releases today.
- doublerabbit 6mo ago> Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave if he could see the software quality of the products that Apple releases today. lol, nah he wouldn't. He would of upgraded his coffin to plush and got a big screen to watch the money roll in. I recommend reading up on his 80/90's antics. All he cared about was money and that the world was crafted by him. He was widely known for intense bullying, lacking empathy, and ruthless manipulation, combined with a "productive narcissism" that fueled his obsessive drive for perfection.
- vntok 6mo agoYes, and "his obsessive drive for perfection" as you put it is what would make him "rolling in his grave if he could see the software quality of the products that Apple releases today" as the parent put it.
- vinay_ys 6mo agoDidn't he also say you are holding it wrong?
- nirava 6mo agoHe famously shipped the original Macintosh with a keyboard without arrow keys to force buyers to use the mouse. His vision of perfection didn't always match common sense. There are quite a few examples of this. I always cringe a little when I read these "jobs would have rolled over in his grave" comments.
- abcd_f 6mo agoHe would've not let the abysmal slop like iOS 26 UI to ship ever. Some things he didn't appear to care much about, the polished UX was his schtick.
- mistrial9 6mo ago> your lifetime customer value is less than the cost of a single support call yes that is the pattern, pioneered by Google here in California
- hulitu 6mo ago> You never know what the "big players" are going to pull, When one pays 1000 Euros for a product, one expects a basic level of quality.