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Hey guys, I’m playing Pandemic Legacy and I was the first to eradicate the red virus so now I get to name it! Let me know if you have any good exocomics-related names :D

If you don’t know what Pandemic Legacy is then shhh don’t worry.

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[–] An1m4L@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago

just don't use clouds. eventually they all turn into rain.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The cloud is people renting your own storage to you so they can see everything on your computer.

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's more like lending or loaning; you are the one who borrows or rents from them!

Also, that'd be technically not true ("see everything") if you were to password-protect your stuff over there. But yeah, that'd be way too much of a hassle; it's best to get out own storage.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

https://localsend.org/ if both devices are connected to the same network access point.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This always failed for me even when they were on the same network. Syncthing works really well, though, as do P2P transfer websites like ToffeeShare.com or CheezyPizza.in.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think that then there is something wrong about how you set up your network/computer? But if the others work then i wonder if there is something else

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is by far the best alternative!

[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Termux and rclone for the non apple folks.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] m_f@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

I love kde connect.

I also use immich and just host my own photo storage. So it syncs automatically.

Syncthing, Immich

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I strongly prefer using USB for this, but it is unnecessarily complicated, it's like

Plug in USB > Settings > Connected devices > USB > Select "File Transfer"

...Every time. Then the files will show up on your computer (hopefully), but it will still be complicated to figure out where the files you want are because phones are designed to mostly not expose the file system to users (no idea wtf DCIM stands for or why this is where photos are kept). My theory is they do this on purpose to discourage people from using it in favor of their cloud options where all your files are now directly accessible to them.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Took me 10 seconds to look it up: Digital Camera IMages, which I'm pretty sure existed before clouds were ever popularized, BTW. I've just memorized the path. You can also Bluetooth stuff over, though long vids may take longer... except to the walled garden of Apple, gross!

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've memorized it too but there's no denying that all this stuff represents a learning curve that imo is totally artificial and does not need to exist

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Um yeah, it could probably be optimized, but remember that computers carry a lot of history. I would guess that there may be Linux distros that set out to solve this matter.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess that's the significantly smaller issue anyway, I'd settle for not having to go into the settings of my phone every time I want to transfer files

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can set up macros! There are macros that can launch apps and even simulate touches and finger-dragging. If you can't do this, you can use scrcpy and run scripts on the computer to interact with your phone that way. There's almost always a way to automate whatever you do repetitively.

Or at least favorite or create shortcuts to your most commonly accessed folders. Eliminate as much travel time as possible if you already know your destination.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sure, but the real problem is that users of mobile phones as a whole are pushed away from local file transfer by a default UI that disfavors it. There could be a single toggle for this in the top menu alongside wifi, airplane mode and the flashlight, it could even connect the file systems by default like any other USB storage device does, or at least not require taking extra manual action every time beyond plugging the thing in. If someone is wondering how they can transfer their files, this is not likely to be the option they land on, even though on a technical level it is the simplest and most reliable.

Apparently you can enable automatically connecting with "Default USB configuration", which seems to be the most straightforward solution, but it's a developer setting so there are extra hoops to go through.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah, absolutely. It's ridiculous. Probably one of the biggest fundamental pains of connecting one's devices... The Bluetooth menus are so stupidly convoluted.

[–] Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

While strictly the four diseases are considered viruses in the game, the symbol for red represents protozoans. According to this thread, the best match for the disease caused by the red is malaria.

As for exocomics, we know from 772, that the robot wishes to destroy earth, so maybe some kind of nanobot?

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Upload to yourself on your preferred message app.

Open web broswer version of said app on laptop.

Download your stuff.

Now get back to work.

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Then the messenger company can glance at your stuff. Nothing beats Syncthing, cable, Bluetooth, P2P transfer apps, or open-source transfer websites (like CheezyPizza.in).

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Grangran, is that you?

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