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Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors

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On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:23:42 +1000, Daniel70 wrote :


>> That's an insightful question, where it's my estimate that something like
>> one in a thousand people understand enough of portable storage in this
>> context to make it so convenient that it's actually seamless to do.
> 
> Thank you for your detailed response.
> 
> My query stemmed from my 'belief' that you were working with just the 
> phone and the old and new SD Cards. Only one SD plugged in at a time so 
> how did you get data from one to the other ..... unless you removed the 
> "Phone System" SD (losing the phone function, maybe), plugged in the 
> "new" SD then did the tranfer from "old" SD content to "new" SD then 
> reorganised things so you could plug in the "Phone System" SD again.

You don't have a PC?

Where do you live?
On Mount Everest?

If you're in the middle of nowhere, then you use the clusterfuck method.
You know the clusterfuck method. It's what Apple sells all day every day.

Everest is at ~30K feet & the lowest comms satellites are ~350 miles.
A round trip is about 700 miles but you have to add the server connection.
So let's just count it at 4 hops of ~350 miles which is ~1500 miles.

Instead of going a few inches back and forth in two hops to your PC, 
what you seem to be proposing is about 1500 miles to do the same thing?

I get it that all Apple owners think nothing of that clusterfuck.
But it's one of the reasons Apple users are so paranoid about encryption.

But, you're the one asking the questions, so here's your rightful answer.

I get it that your situation is you sit on top of Mount Everest, which is
as far as you can get from your home PC, so you have only the Internet.

Step one of the Apple clusterfuck is you purchase 64GB of cloud storage.
Don't forget that step because it's part of why Apple is so profitable.

Then, since you have no access to anything but the Internet (which is how
the Apple clusterfuck method works, as you must be aware of by now), you
upload to the satellite your 64GB of data from the top of Mount Everest.

Luckily, that's the SHORTEST distance that the Apple clusterfuck works at.
But that's only one hop of 350 miles because the satellite has to log into
the Cupertino matrix to store your 64GB of data on that sd card, right?

So your precious private data just went 700 miles to be on the cloud.

Then you shut the phone; swap out the sd cards; and boot the phone back.
And then you download back the 64 GB of data stored on the Apple cloud.

That's another two hops, so add another 700 miles for your private data.
(And a bunch of Internet hosts in between, some of whom are nefarious).

Voila!

After pushing your data 700 miles and pulling it back another 700 miles, 
you have successfully completed an Apple clusterfuck round trip for data.

Instead of copying your private data directly the few inches from your PC.
Congratulations.

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Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-27 00:07 +1000
  Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-26 21:37 +0000
    Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-27 20:23 +1000
      Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portable memory using Windows & Android editors Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-27 14:15 +0000

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