I bought pixel 6a, mainly for graphene os but didn’t install it because I wouldn’t be able to use Google pay. My main things why I regret getting it is that there’s no headphone jack and no SD card slot. Thought it wouldn’t be that bad but… It is that bad. Next time I’m getting a phone once this goes bad I’m definitely getting headphone jack and SD card slot.
Aren’t you worried about losing them? I keep my photos backed up to a local storage server and Google drive because I’m terrified about that. I lost my iPhone 5 back when it was new and that maybe is why I’m so nervous about it.
Me? I also use Syncthing and my phone is part of a personal cloud.
Have you thought about the fact that maybe you can’t think of a usecase because you have already gotten used to not having the luxury of an SD card and owning the things you enjoy?
Nobody owns their smartphone. Just like nobody owns anything else anymore. But personally, my “cloud provider” is a server box in my basement which I do own.
I just don’t see the benefit of using an SD card. But I’ve seen too many of them fail while I was a photographer so maybe I’m just burnt out.
I don’t rely on the SD card on my phone to be the sole source of my data, it is a common pool so that I don’t have to walk around firehosing cellular data back and forth for no reason.
Syncthing works best when one device is always on or nearly always on the internet, so my phone is the perfect bounce port to keep a bigger network of syncthing devices working together on (note Syncthing will sync over a local network if possible, which is most of the time with my devices).
If the SD card fails shrugs I get another one?
I mean… that is the route that cameras take right? You just use two SD cards. I do the same thing but with a paired raspberrry pi and another SD card that is connected with Syncthing.
Like /u/Monstrosity already said, photos is great use. Dealing with it rn, want to transfer bunch of my pics to my pc and it takes forever and fails a lot trying to do it over cable so just putting it on SD card and then just plug the SD card into the PC is way easier. Solved it by installing sync thing so that works for now. I also like to store all my music locally so I don’t have to worry about bad signal or anything like that, also some movie and books for when bored waiting or something. I definitely love having stuff locally plus it’s just much cheaper large storage than getting a phone with bigger internal memory. So yeah there’s tons of uses why you would want an SD card. Makes lots of things easier and easily transferable. Same with headphone jack, don’t have to deal with connecting stuff guessing the pairing code if it’s one or the other default one. Just plug it in and done. Also don’t know how it is with modern phones but you can listen to radio using the headphones as anténa so definitely another use for someone that would want that.
Huh I guess that makes sense. Idk I guess I solved it other ways.
I back up all of my photos to a server I have at home so I don’t think I’ve moved a file off my phone in like a decade. And the closest I get is sending a single photo but I’ll just email/text it to myself in that case.
I also store all my music locally, but Im not even close to using all of my storage? I just checked, i have 6340 songs, and ~1000 photos/videos. And that takes up a total of like 26gb. So I’m not ever really limited by storage.
I regret buying one without it.
I bought pixel 6a, mainly for graphene os but didn’t install it because I wouldn’t be able to use Google pay. My main things why I regret getting it is that there’s no headphone jack and no SD card slot. Thought it wouldn’t be that bad but… It is that bad. Next time I’m getting a phone once this goes bad I’m definitely getting headphone jack and SD card slot.
Genuine question. What do you use the SD card slot for? I havent needed one in like 15+ years at least. But I don’t do a lot on my phone.
I use it for:
I imagine it makes keeping things like photos super easy, even if a phone stops working entirely.
I guess, but who actually stores photos on their phone anymore? Everyone I know/talk to just back it up to some cloud provider.
I don’t actually use a cloud backup. It’s me. And maybe the op of this thread, I guess.
Aren’t you worried about losing them? I keep my photos backed up to a local storage server and Google drive because I’m terrified about that. I lost my iPhone 5 back when it was new and that maybe is why I’m so nervous about it.
Yes. And I have lost them before, which is why an SD card is a pretty good idea.
But I also do things like take pictures of my tax forms to convert to PDF, as one example. I don’t need that uploading to Uncle Goog’s Spy Cloud.
Me? I also use Syncthing and my phone is part of a personal cloud.
Have you thought about the fact that maybe you can’t think of a usecase because you have already gotten used to not having the luxury of an SD card and owning the things you enjoy?
Nobody owns their smartphone. Just like nobody owns anything else anymore. But personally, my “cloud provider” is a server box in my basement which I do own.
I just don’t see the benefit of using an SD card. But I’ve seen too many of them fail while I was a photographer so maybe I’m just burnt out.
I don’t rely on the SD card on my phone to be the sole source of my data, it is a common pool so that I don’t have to walk around firehosing cellular data back and forth for no reason.
Syncthing works best when one device is always on or nearly always on the internet, so my phone is the perfect bounce port to keep a bigger network of syncthing devices working together on (note Syncthing will sync over a local network if possible, which is most of the time with my devices).
If the SD card fails shrugs I get another one?
I mean… that is the route that cameras take right? You just use two SD cards. I do the same thing but with a paired raspberrry pi and another SD card that is connected with Syncthing.
Like /u/Monstrosity already said, photos is great use. Dealing with it rn, want to transfer bunch of my pics to my pc and it takes forever and fails a lot trying to do it over cable so just putting it on SD card and then just plug the SD card into the PC is way easier. Solved it by installing sync thing so that works for now. I also like to store all my music locally so I don’t have to worry about bad signal or anything like that, also some movie and books for when bored waiting or something. I definitely love having stuff locally plus it’s just much cheaper large storage than getting a phone with bigger internal memory. So yeah there’s tons of uses why you would want an SD card. Makes lots of things easier and easily transferable. Same with headphone jack, don’t have to deal with connecting stuff guessing the pairing code if it’s one or the other default one. Just plug it in and done. Also don’t know how it is with modern phones but you can listen to radio using the headphones as anténa so definitely another use for someone that would want that.
Huh I guess that makes sense. Idk I guess I solved it other ways.
I back up all of my photos to a server I have at home so I don’t think I’ve moved a file off my phone in like a decade. And the closest I get is sending a single photo but I’ll just email/text it to myself in that case.
I also store all my music locally, but Im not even close to using all of my storage? I just checked, i have 6340 songs, and ~1000 photos/videos. And that takes up a total of like 26gb. So I’m not ever really limited by storage.
Same, sold it after a couple years and got one with a jack