I backup to my computer. It actually has more storage than iCloud and I don’t trust any cloud with my private data.
Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose)
misk@sopuli.xyz 9 hours agoThey let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 5 hours ago
I back mine up to my own cloud. Wirelessly 😅
misk@sopuli.xyz 7 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 3 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.
misk@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
They’ve just done this to create artificial value for the “Pro” models.
Correct. They found out professionals have money to afford premium hardware and software so you can charge them that. Perfectly reasonable way to make money.
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Meanwhile me sitting with 4tb on my laptop and 5gb on icloud because fuck paying for cloud storage
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
4TB?
Maybe more like 6 times that (for me) :D
remon@ani.social 3 hours ago
You have 24TB storage in your laptop? How?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
By mounting it from my NAS :)