I would host them on my own server the way I did before Github. Open SSH access or use a VPN and connect using that.

I can’t email 20 pictures that are 5MBs each. Gmail caps at 20MB and other providers have random other caps. No one in my life with an iPhone knows what to do with a USB stick. Nor do I want to use a computer as an intermediary to get something I wanted on my phone.

I’m not saying there weren’t always ways to transfer files. There always have been and I’ve used many of those ways. But god Airdrop is simpler and more reliable than most of them for small every-day things from phone to phone especially for tech illiterate.

I use magic-wormhole often but I’m not asking my tech illiterate grandma to use that just to get some photos from me. I’m also not going to get an iPhone myself to iCloud the photos to her or whatever Apple people do.

If email works fine for you, great. But that doesn’t make it a good solution for everyone. I hate emailing files around.

I have never been able to successfully send a file between two different Android devices using Quick Share. It always gets stuck loading or connecting.

Because Airdrop is miles more reliable and easier to use than anything Android came up with (yes I am aware of QuickShare, it sucks)?

Because having two walled gardens where people need the same third party app to move data between them is silly?

Because Apple needs some “see regulators! we are not a monopoly, we are cooperating with Google :D” wins.

eh, I was thinking like Google and that open chat protocol.

Though I do dislike some of systemd’s architecture decisions as well. Like why tha fuck can I not turn off it’s own built in authentication to sudo mechanism -_-

I wish Microsoft adopted and upstreamed changes to OpenZFS instead of duplicating all this effort.

Though then I’m sure they would tell the community to fuck off by trying to take over the entire project and pushing the actually open and compatible version out of favour.

They also for a long while showed ads in the interface despite premium. I confirmed with support thes cancelled.

That will be the go to. I’m just procrastinating the migration.

ditto

Not that I know of. I was just going to not install them.

Actually I hear Graphene installation on a Pixel is nearly unbrickable and has a nice user friendly website.

I watched a video of it and was reminded of the old Limera1n/Blackrain/etc IOS jailbreak days. There was one where you just went to a website and swiped to jailbreak then your idevice rebooted and you were jailbroken.

Fuck you Google. I won’t do further updates on my Pixel and the moment I run into an issue I’ll move operating systems or phones if required. Half my apps don’t come from Google Play and I don’t want the developers to have to register with Google for anything.

Ha. I thought this was from The Onion the first time I scrolled past it. What a hilarious joke. I hope it back fires so people and countries continue moving away from Windows.

I stopped auto-updates when the last death happened. Now I’m exploring Lawnchair.

Yeah I’ve been just refusing the prompts and using a standard 2FA code app instead.

Except that Windows routinely breaks my passkeys :) Use it to login once, works great. Try again the next day, “Something went wrong”. Now I can’t use that 2FA; it never starts working again. Then I have extra steps of trying the passkey, having it fail, logging in on another device, removing the passkey, …

Windows supports creating or using NFS shares?

I do not have a Steam Deck but I do use Linux.

Doesn’t it have a Micro SD card slot? That would probably be the least faffing way to copy files.

Aside from that it’s just a Linux computer so anything you like; I’m partial to SSH (rsync) for one off or Syncthing to sync folders around. You could also use a magic-wormhole web client, a Windows shared folder (no experience connecting to SMB shares from Linux), or croc (like Magic wormhole but resumable).

Also not a user of pirated game files, but what kind of format are they? If they are EXE files then they won’t work when you double click them like on Windows (at least not unless SteamOS went to the effort to configure that). You have to run them with Proton from Steam. I do not know how to do this with things outside Steam but you cauld try adding them to Steam as an external game, then the usual “select Proton” configuration might present itself.

I was worried enough about buying a used car in five years, thanks. Nov I have to worry about having the shit infotainment systems that were disappearing on top of having to pay a subscription to release my parking breaks??

Do you disagree with me thinking it’s silly to through around credentials on the internet or just how I communicated it?

I did edit after posting to tone it down some but perhaps not enough?

It’s pretty silly to through around credentials.

Here’s a video of an OLED TV updating in slow motion. The pixels are on in between updates so it really doesn’t matter how fast it’s updating it’s not going to cause headaches or any of the problems that we used to associate with strobing style displays. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=54E3uUEryZM