Isa's Homestead Happenings and Hangout

[ShrekDawg]

You do not know how to use a USB for your computer, or you do not know how to use a memory card for your device(s)?

I don’t know how to get it from an online website to the card. I know how to get stuff from the computer to the card. It’s probably easy though, I’ve just never tried it. I also haven’t set my laptop up yet so I guess that would be the first step. Unless I can download directly to my phone.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Where did all your millions of mp3s go!?

I don't keep them on my phone?

[root@ferrum photos]# du -hs /data/mp3/
135G /data/mp3/

 

[ShrekDawg]

Okay I looked it up and it actually sounds quite easy.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think I just need to download them onto my computer first and then I can move them to a card. Or just leave them on the computer. But I’d prefer putting them somewhere. So now I need to set my laptop up.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

I don't keep them on my phone?

[root@ferrum photos]# du -hs /data/mp3/
135G /data/mp3/

You do not keep any on your phone? I have 5gbs worth of mp3s on my phone, myself. I like to switch out my ringtone, so I keep my favorite mp3s on here so I can easily make one whenever the mood strikes.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

I think I just need to download them onto my computer first and then I can move them to a card. Or just leave them on the computer. But I’d prefer putting them somewhere. So now I need to set my laptop up.

I keep the same folders updated across more than 10 USBs. I have had a few become corrupted or damaged, and since then, I keep everything stored in multiples in the hope that I never again lose a precious photo.

 

[azurbanclucker]

You do not keep any on your phone? I have 5gbs worth of mp3s on my phone, myself. I like to switch out my ringtone, so I keep my favorite mp3s on here so I can easily make one whenever the mood strikes.

I have well-curated playlists and Pandora stations. And I run subsonic at the house so I can stream anything I own to any device. No reason to carry them all around when I don't have to.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I keep the same folders updated across more than 10 USBs. I have had a few become corrupted or damaged, and since then, I keep everything stored in multiples in the hope that I never again lose a precious photo.

Oh that’s a great idea!!! Maybe I’ll buy a couple then. I lost a fantastic photo due to android at the time not having a recently deleted folder and me thinking I was deleting the edited version not the original.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I keep the same folders updated across more than 10 USBs. I have had a few become corrupted or damaged, and since then, I keep everything stored in multiples in the hope that I never again lose a precious photo.

Follow the 3:2:1 rule

* Keep 3 backups
* On at least 2 different types of media (examples are USB drives, portable backup hard drives, cloud storage, local storage fileserver, etc...)
* 1 of which should be at a remote location.

If you do this, follow a reasonable schedule, and test your backups on occasion, you'll be protected from pretty much all data loss.

 

[tripletfeb]

Apple vs. Google: A Privacy Comparison​

The real cost of using Google.​

Jano le Roux
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Who do you trust with your data?

Google or Apple?

How much data are they really collecting? And what are they doing with it?

Well, I did some digging and the results are shocking.

Google is collecting 39 data points on each user while Apple is only collecting 12, Facebook collects just 2 more data points than Apple! Why does everybody hate Facebook again?

They all collect too much. I will never join facebook and it's not because of them collecting data. I can't stand the posts of people doing fun things with their kids but they are really ignoring their kids to be online. I think it's tacky. I like to be in the here and now, not online all the time. And I can't stand the stupid posts, people whining about things

I don't pay for it either. I get 5gb free with Apple. I download my pictures to computers and to external hard drives and then delete off of my phone after awhile, so I never go over the 5gb. And, I say 5gb, but it may be more that Apple gives you free. But, anyway, by doing this I really only keep my contacts on Cloud so if my phone breaks, gets lost, or whatever they will restore to a new phone.

I don't really like any of the 3 being Google, Apple, or Microsoft. I use all 3 for things and some of the same things. You have to use at least one unless you are completely off the grid, which would probably be a good thing to be.

I just like the Iphone better from my experience, but there is nothing really wrong with an Android. I used Android for years until my kids decided to buy me an Apple for my birthday one year and I ended up liking it and stayed with it.

One thing is that there seem to be more people that use Apple so it makes group texting easier. But, now that is not as important because you have so many group chatting Apps like Whatsapp. Plus, I read recently that Apple was going to make it so that Android could join group chats with Apple users. I don't know if they have yet, but they are suppose to.

And, there are a couple of other things I like that are also not as important now. I actually use my phone as pay as I go. I am nearly always connected to a wifi and if you text another Apple phone it would not use your text that you had available. It would if you text to or from an Android. Again, more people use Apple so that was a good thing to have. But, even that is not as important to me since my provider now gives me unlimited text and calls for as low as I was paying for just buying what I needed. I only pay about $15 a month for my phone usage. I hate to waste money. I don't know if a dollar saved is a dollar earned as it is said, but it certainly is a fact that a dollar saved is a dollar saved. Can't argue with that.

Most everyone I know has an Android so texting is never an issue. And offgrid is the goal for us, someday it will happen