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This 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
by anal_reactor 7mo ago
This 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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