Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:49:37 +0200, R.Wieser wrote :

Carrying a thumb drive with you everywhere you go is only
something you and Frank would come up with

 
But carrying either a charger or just a charging cable with you everywhere
you go is ofcourse absolutily normal.

WTF?

It seems only you & Frank would suggest people bring along a *permanently
attached* thumbdrive at all times with them because they lack sd hardware.

In your car is a charging cable connected to a charger in the car.
In a few places in your home is a charging cable connected to a charger.
When you travel by plane/bus/rail you bring along a charger & cable.

But that's essentially the only time you bother to carry a charger.
Don't you have a modern-sized battery, Rudy? Like around 5Ah or more?

If not, then the problem is simply your battery is woefully substandard.

Or a headphone/earplugs to listen to music or call people while not needing
to keep the phone in hand.  Or apples smart watches.

In your car may be a bluetooth speaker, generally attached to the vehicle.
In a few places in your home may be bluetooth speakers/headphones also.
When you travel by plane/bus/rail you may bring along headphones/earbuds.

While just walking around, many people do bring along a set of earbuds.

But only you and Frank would suggest people bring along a *permanently
attached* thumbdrive at all times with them to work around lack of sd H/W.

Also, weren't you talking about easily being able to exchange your "external
storage" ?   Are you only doing that at home ?   If not than you must be
carrying some sd-cards with you.

Since T-Mobile gave me my first 3 free Galaxies, shipped to me, I simply
put the 32GB sdcard (bought at 2021 prices) into each at home upon booting.
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But yes, someone adding a thumbdrive to that mix would be plain silly.

Over time, because I'm rough on phones, T-Mobile exchanged two of my
Galaxies for free at the T-Mobile store, where I simply popped the old
sdcard out of the phone and popped in the new sdcard at the T-Mobile store.

Adding a thumbdrive permanently to a phone is only a suggestion that
someone who doesn't understand sd card hardware could possibly suggest.

It's ridiculous.

Oh, wait ... I've been carrying one around with me for *years* (a 1GB stick.
That tell you how long ago it is), far before I got my first smartphone.  I
guess that made me silly.  I did enjoy having my files with me though, no
matter the 'puter I was infront of.

Only you and Frank would suggest people *permanently attach* a thumbdrive
at all times on their phone in order to work around the lack of proper H/W.

It's just absurd.

 

where at least you could have figured out that the cloud

...

(but at a price, not only in cost, but in privacy

 
Or you could have figured out home servers.

Windows doesn't do such servers all that well; but routers do them well.

It's not a bad idea for me to write a helpful tutorial on the process of
setting up a secure private home swerver from Windows using a home router.

Maybe, since you know so much Rudy, you or Frank or even the completely
unhelpful Alan Baker will beat me to it and write that tutorial for us.

Old 'puters are cheap to get, and you get absolute privacy.   Just install
some version of linux, and off you go.
 
Ah, you fully forgot about that possibility.  That happens I suppose.

It's interesting how *desperate* you are to find a workaround to a
ten-dollar sd card, Rudy... simply because your phone lacks sd hardware.
 

but I was at first surprised that neither Rudy nor Frank
ever used them.

 
And you know that ... how ?   Ah, mindreading again.

The fact you have no idea what portable memory is, Rudy, is the evidence I
use to ascertain the observation that you know nothing about sd card use.

It's clear neither of them has any experience whatsoever with them.

 
If you say so.
 
The next time someone asks me about how to connect them to a microcontroller
and access them I will tell them so, and give them your name.  *You* know
*everything* about them, right ?  :-p

I designed and hand wired my own Motorola 68701 microcontroller many
decades ago, Rudy, while in grad school, where I programmed the EEPROM by
rote, since it's easier to use the hex code than the assembly commands.

In summary of this thread, it appears that, other than Arno, and possibly
Carlos, Rudy and Frank (and Alan) have never used sd cards in their lives.

At least not on phones.

SO it's no wonder they have no clue what can be done with sd cards in a
phone which is impossible to replicate no matter how desperate they are.