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

Arlen,

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

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

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

Funny, every time you come up with an example - data transfer between two
machines in this case - and you get a counter example you come up with
something else that you you /supposedly/ also ment.

As for an answer ?  I already have 'permanently attached' memory in my
phone.  I do not need an sd-card for that.

You *really* need to come up with something that *only* can be resolved by
an sd-card I'm afraid.

When you travel by plane/bus/rail you bring along a charger & cable.

Or any other public place.  Or /any/ other place you are not sure they have
the charger/cable you need.

But why do you take a charger with you in those cases ?  Do you have some
kind of a crap battery that goes flat when you actually use your phone a bit
?

My phone has no problem when I go visit friends or somewhere else and stay a
night or two.

But even than I /at least/ take a charging cable with me.  Just to be sure.

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

Or driving.  Or sitting somewhere, or working, or ...  But yes, as I already
said.

And I see you skipped my apple watch example.

Bottom line, people bring stuff with them to be used with the phone all the
time.  Adding a thumbdrive to it won't break the bank.

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.

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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

Ah yes, making your argument jump from the external sd-card to the internal
one.

And your famous "lack of understanding" of even a simple sentence (the first
one in the above quote.  No, kiddo, thats not for your sake, but for other
readers wondering what I'm talking about).

But only you and Frank would suggest people bring along a
*permanently attached* thumbdrive at all times

Thats the second time in this post you claim we did so.  And as you are
known to make up "facts" as you please, its time for you to quote where we
did I'm afraid.

Which you ofcourse never will.

Or you could have figured out home servers.

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

Thank you for confirming that, a home server, is a possibility too. :-)

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.

... or just grab yourself any old 'puter and put (a version of) linux on it.

Besides, "from Windows using a home router" ?   That does very mouch sound
as if you will be churning out one of your famous impossible-to-follow
garbage tutorials.

Besides, there are quite a number of different routers.  Are you going to
talk about all of them ?  Ofcourse not.  IOW, you will talk about your own
router, and leave it at that - thereby severely limiting your audience.

But hey, do write it and make yourself think you're the greatest.

Though if anyone asks I will just tell them to google "linux home server",
and than choose one of the multitude of readily available /real/ tutorials :

https://www.imaginelinux.com/set-up-linux-home-server/
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/09/top-5-home-server-os-distros-for-self-hosting/
https://www.techradar.com/best/best-linux-server-distro
https://www.linuxboost.com/how-to-set-up-a-home-server-with-ubuntu/
https://www.fosslinux.com/140755/linux-servers-ideal-for-home-use.htm

And thats just the first five.

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.

:-) Its just you who's thinking that adding yet another tutorial to the
already available ones would be a worthwhile thing to do.

IOW, you're welcome to write it.  Good luck.

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

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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.

:-)  I seem to remember that it ws *you* who started to talk about the
cloud, and how that would be costly and not good for privacy.

It looks like it *you* who is desperate to get outof the hole you dug
yourself. <whistle>

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

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

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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.

:-)  You have "evidence" you say.  You made an "observation" you say.  Than
you should be able to show us your evidence and tell us how and where you
observed that.

If you don't (and you won't) I'm just going to consider it to be one of
those gazillion other hollow claims you made.  Worth exactly nothing.

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.

Again, how would you know ?   Your "appears that" is, with your customary
absense of any supporting information, as hollow as your claims.

At least not on phones.

Ah yes, some more moving of goal posts.  Yes, that always works well, and
*nobody* ofcourse notices it.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.

did you notice that when you claim something and I or someone gives
countering arguments you either silently drop the claim, go claim some more
stuff, or start throwing accusations around ?

I can't remember if you *ever* responded to a countering argument with
arguments supporting your own or discounted the others arguments.