I still remember when this cloud thing was just starting, and some people were absolutely glowing that they can have 4 gigs in the cloud for only 5 bucks a month. At the time I had been drowning in 4GB and larger memory cards for probably a decade.

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    Using a Samsung Galaxy A52s now, am very worried about what will happen when I need to replace it in 3-4 years; it’s like the last phone that has nearly everything I want: microSD card slot, headphone jack, and OIS for the main camera. If it had a removable battery or at least easily replaceable battery it’d be perfect.

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      Look up Sony Xperia phones. They’re expensive but they’re quality phones with the features you want.

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      Yeah, I’m on the hunt for a phone with these criteria right now as well…

      I’m leaning toward the Zenfone 10 (poor international availability, no mSD), Xperia 1 or 5 (also poor int. availability, $$$), or maybe just sucking it up and getting a Pixel for GrapheneOS with a dongle :/

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    So where will you backing that up to because it will fail at some point, only a matter of time.

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    Make sure you back it up occasionally. I lost years of photos after the card became corrupt. :(

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    They have a finite number of read/write cycles in them. They are not meant to last more than about 10-15 years tops.

    Make sure you back that up to an actual cloud storage or you may as well not use it at all.

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    What it your phone gets stolen? Thats all your data gone, what about sd cards corrupting? It happenes often, what about having left your phone at home and having to acces your documents? (Thats a very specific thing)

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      Then you didnt do the holy 3 Backup steps

      1. 3 Copies from the document
      2. 2 Different storage devices/devicetypes
      3. 1 Offsite copy

      https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-computer-backup-rule-of-three

      And if you really need really fast updates. Then why not use a self hosted NAS. Because there you can controll what happens to the data and not a big coorperation that scans through your files (even encrypted zip files).

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        And manually copying your data to 2 devices daily and haveing a offsite copy is easier/better than having a 99 cents/month icloud+ subscribtion?

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          1. Apple ewwww
          2. You know we are here at [email protected] ? You are not making friends for telling this here.

          There are enough open source, self host(able) free solutions. And if they are so important why are putting it on a untrusted provider aka apple that access the photos without your consent.