They let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.
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Spacehooks@reddthat.com 16 hours agoPpl dont back up to local hd?
misk@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
Meanwhile me sitting with 4tb on my laptop and 5gb on icloud because fuck paying for cloud storage
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
4TB?
Maybe more like 6 times that (for me) :Dremon@ani.social 9 hours ago
You have 24TB storage in your laptop? How?
0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
I backup to my computer. It actually has more storage than iCloud and I don’t trust any cloud with my private data.
misk@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
I’m sure we’ll find much evidence for hobbyists on Lemmy having different use cases from the general public but Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.
Regular person doesn’t need much offline storage because they download apps from the App Store, listen to music from a streaming service and sync photos to iCloud or Google Photos. Those people probably shouldn’t store their data offline either way because they won’t back it up properly. It’s another case of Apple treating general public like incompetent grannies but they’re kind of right about that.
Ulrich@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.
Not true. Difference in cost between USB 2&3 is negligible. They’ve just done this to create artificial value for the “Pro” models. Same way they create artificial value with ram and storage.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 hours ago
I back mine up to my own cloud. Wirelessly 😅
dumblederp@aussie.zone 14 hours ago
I use ghost commander to backup to the NAS. No wires.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 14 hours ago
Oh i see. How’s the transfer speed?
dumblederp@aussie.zone 2 hours ago
I get 6mB /s or so, but it copies in the background. I also use it to copy media to my phone.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 13 hours ago
I can’t on iphone
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Wow really? Thats sad.
ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 8 hours ago
Yeah, there is a great app for photos though, photosync
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Thanks for the info!
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 13 hours ago
sure, wirelessly.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
Like media share to home server?