Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.
932 comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114
Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.
932 comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114
I think you are missing the bigger point here.
Most smartphone users cannot operate a local backup using a RPi. In fact, most users worldwide cannot afford to buy and run a RPi 24/7.
Most smartphone users are not able to afford a Google Drive plan that holds all their pics.
Most smartphone users are just not literate enough to even understand where they pics are, or that they may need a backup plan at all.
You cannot apply your life experiences to quite literally a billion people for whom smartphones are likely the only thing with a screen they own. And yeah, among those, plenty of iPhone users who bought it for cheap or got it for free with their cellular plan.
Yeah, we get it, you know what is needed and how it needs to be done, and you have the cash to do it. But maybe you should realize that you are the exception, a tiny minority.
I brought up the google drive plan because I know many people can’t afford to buy a 2nd device. Not being literate enough to know you need a backup plan is beside the point.
And I’m not talking about pictures here. Before smartphones (or digital cameras I guess) nobody had backups of their pictures. You got the one copy and if it was destroyed that’s it. Unless you used film and bought/made 2 copies but that’s beside the point. That’s a very low priority backup item. I’m talking about documentation, paperwork, important information in text form, passwords, etc. Things that literally everyone who has feasible access to a smartphone likely has or needs. All of that can be stored on a 15gb free plan. Anyone who is literate enough to use a random smartphone can do that. Pdfs and text files are tiny. Even pictures of documents can be tiny.
Not knowing you can or should do that is another problem entirely. I was once one of those people who was so poor the only screen I owned was a phone (and it wasn’t even a smart phone). If you do not understand that you need to keep a 2nd copy of important information, whoever gave you that documentation or the government that created it is at fault. If someone ever says “do not lose this”, it should be clear you might want to make a copy of some sort, physical or digital.
You clearly live in a different world from most of us. I’ll leave it here.
I’m not sure we’re on the same page here.
If someone can:
Like I already said, if they don’t know they NEED to do that, that’s another problem entirely, and not really their fault. But I haven’t met many people who don’t realize those documents are important and need protecting. And I’m not talking strictly about affluent, educated, privileged people.