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

Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:28:01 +0200, R.Wieser wrote :
 

To be honest, I can think of a reason/situation or two why/when an sd-card
would be something good to have.  But when wants to think of himself as the
only one who knows anything, and we are "strange completely ignorant
uneducated trolls" ?  Than I'm not really feeling inclined (understatement)
to help him support his arguments.  Something I definitily /would/ do in a
honest discussion.

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

  Why would anyone want to carry a "thumb drive"!? We're - well at least
I was/am - talking about apples-to-apples alternatives. A "thumb drive"
doesn't fall in that category. (Clue-by-four: This is a trap. At least
*try* not to fall in it.)

   - where at least you could have figured out that
the cloud (if you pay through the nose for it) would do some of what sd
does (but at a price, not only in cost, but in privacy as it has to be paid
for in the huge sizes that sd cards do for you, e.g., for your map data).

  Well, we - well at least I - don't come up with that alternative,
because *you* keep harping about the 'portable storage' use of SD-cards.
The 'cloud' isn't 'portable storage', it's an *alternative* in *some*
situations (doesn't quite work without Internet access, does it?).

That you and Frank can't figure out what an sd card does is one piece of

  Well, we - well at least I - know full when what it can do, but *you*
keep 'forgetting' the use for which there is no alternative, so you keep
shooting yourself in the feet.

Not one of you fools has any idea nor any experience with sd cards.

BTW, I'm not surprised Alan Baker never used an sd card because he owns
iPhones, but I was at first surprised that neither Rudy nor Frank ever used
them. It's clear neither of them has any experience whatsoever with them.

  <BARF!> I used them ever since *2013* in my first phones and tablets,
which had too little Internal Storage, ranging from 4GB (effectively <=
1GB) to 8GB and 16GB.

  Now, I don't use them anymore, because I have no need for them. (And
yes, my phone *does* have a SD-card slot.)

  BTW, as I mentioned recently and you 'conveniently' ignored, only the
current bottom (A16 and A26) models of your beloved Samsung Galaxy
A-Series still have a SD-card slot (shared as second SIM or SD-card).
The A36 and A56 do not have a SD-card slot.

  So if you want to keep your precious SD-card slot in the future,
you'll have to downgrade *and* be damn quick about it!