Ok I’m sort of an older fart here and had a question about this thing called iCloud. My phone is about out of memory (256gb) and it says I can store my pics/vids in the cloud for a monthly fee. Is this recommended and safe? With safe I know things can happen there and nothing is really “safe”. Any other options? Thought about just putting all of the pics on a usb drive but then the pics aren’t with me if needed. Any suggestions is appreciated. TIA
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iCloud would probably be most seamless (straight-forward to use), but you could price-compare for other options: https://www.slashgear.com/1294315/best-icloud-alternatives-iphone-ipad/
If you have data outside of your phone that you also want to store up (like a bunch of vids on your computer which could be stolen/lost), maybe you want something outside of the Apple sphere like the above options.
If you have data outside of your phone that you also want to store up (like a bunch of vids on your computer which could be stolen/lost), maybe you want something outside of the Apple sphere like the above options.
I have an old guy kind of question...if you send your phone pics to the cloud (I have an Android phone), will it ferret out every single one that's anywhere on my phone? Or will I have to put each one in the 'gallery' first? Like ones that have been sent to me by text, etc.
I can't really check to see if every single one has been saved to the cloud but I don't want to lose any either. And I need to dump some stuff because my phone is running out of storage.
I can't really check to see if every single one has been saved to the cloud but I don't want to lose any either. And I need to dump some stuff because my phone is running out of storage.
Any file on your phone should back up automatically if you have that setting turned on. I don't think pics that have been texted to you automatically back up, but you shouldn't loose it unless you delete the text messages.
thanks. That's my question though. Will whatever it is that sends my pics to the cloud pick those text ones up? Or do I have to go through all my texts and send the pics to my 'gallery'?
I don't know what setting I have turned on, but the pictures I take go into the 'gallery'.
Go to your settings, then select from the options, backup. That should tell you what is being backed up. I back up my text messages, so at least in theory any pictures sent through text are backed up if auto save is turned on.
Every time i see this thread i get nervous, cuz tech is always buggy and always insecure. Every tool and api is only as good as the person who tested it or implemented and humans are bug-prone.
I just ran across this - gulp
I just ran across this - gulp
thanks. I can't find 'backup' in settings, but I know it must be in there somewhere.
damn dude, get it right or I'll find someone else to help me. My time is too valuable than to waste it working around your incompetence.
thanks, man.
OK my man, I'll try to remember that. In the meantime, you might want to try to get a grip on your extreme case of JDS. It seems to be consuming you. When I see cases like yours, and I put on my junior psychologist hat, I believe your obsession is actually a plea to be convinced that Jesus is real and watching over you. Well, I feel I have a real connection with Our Savior and I can tell you this; he IS real but he is NOT watching over you. He says you can go kick rocks for all he cares. Sorry dude, you're not in the club.Well just remember we know when Jesus returns he’s got the clouds with him so better not be any naughty stuff in there
But Jesus is like Santa Claus, he already knows if you've been naughty or nice...so it probably doesn't matter what we stash in the clouds. I just hope there's room for my not so naughty stuff if you've housed your entire porn collection up there.
ah, yes, Jesus is like Santa but not in the way you think. Santa can leave you a lump of coal or a bag of switches if you've been naughty, but Jesus can see that you spend eternity rubbing Preparation Hellfire on @Heels Noir's hemorrhoids. You know, because he'll be there soon after you, guaranteed. And as bad as that sounds for Heels Noir, you'll be getting the much worse end of the bargain. Pun intended.
I fear for your soul. Oh wait, I guess you don't have one...as far as you know.
I’ve often pondered the concept of a “soul” as religions describe it. What is it? Is everyone’s unique? Do animals have one? After watching my mom go through dementia I’ve decided it’s all bullshit. She’s no longer the same person. If she had a unique life force given her by god that’s moving on to the next life is it the original one or the new one? Her thoughts, attitudes, feelings, emotion are.nothing like what my mom had. So is her soul gone? Has god changed her soul to that of a paranoid bitter angry person that doesn’t recognize her own kids and just wants to die? Gee how loving of god. The logical conclusion is that what religions like to call a soul is actually just a set of behaviors not related to any god or good and evil but a product of our brain firing off electrical impulses and reacting to stimuli and chemicals. There’s no magical cloud gonna leave your body when you die and go to face judgement. Maybe there’s some sort of energy we all posess that goes back to the universe when we die. That’s about the best I can do. That’s the end of the sermon for today. Be sure and leave 10% of your gross before taxes on the way out to go to Cracker Barrel.
sorry dude, but I don't do church or Cracker Barrel. I mean, I have done Cracker Barrel a few times, but it really isn't an obsession with me like it seems to be with so many others. It's just mediocre food at best. YMMV, of course. You want a good breakfast? Go no farther than Waffle House. Scrambled eggs and cheese. I tried many times to copy that wonderful stuff at home without success, until I made a point of watching them make it. The secret is to scramble the eggs and melt the cheese separately, and then toss them together just before serving.I’ve often pondered the concept of a “soul” as religions describe it. What is it? Is everyone’s unique? Do animals have one? After watching my mom go through dementia I’ve decided it’s all bullshit. She’s no longer the same person. If she had a unique life force given her by god that’s moving on to the next life is it the original one or the new one? Her thoughts, attitudes, feelings, emotion are.nothing like what my mom had. So is her soul gone? Has god changed her soul to that of a paranoid bitter angry person that doesn’t recognize her own kids and just wants to die? Gee how loving of god. The logical conclusion is that what religions like to call a soul is actually just a set of behaviors not related to any god or good and evil but a product of our brain firing off electrical impulses and reacting to stimuli and chemicals. There’s no magical cloud gonna leave your body when you die and go to face judgement. Maybe there’s some sort of energy we all posess that goes back to the universe when we die. That’s about the best I can do. That’s the end of the sermon for today. Be sure and leave 10% of your gross before taxes on the way out to go to Cracker Barrel.
Better yet, find some little hole-in-the-wall mom and pop place. But hurry, they are disappearing fast. That being the case, do you know of any down your way? I like a good hearty country breakfast when I go remote to try to save someone's wayward umm...spiritual lifeforce. Grits with red-eye gravy (if available), buttered rye toast, three eggs sunny side or over easy and bacon or sausage (flip a coin) if they don't have some good country ham.
I think I saw where you're originally from the western part of the state. True? If so, have you ever had liver hash (or mush)? That's a good breakfast side if you can find it down this way.
But I digress. Back to the subject. I believe it was breakfast. I saw Alton Brown do a breakfast trick you might appreciate. He does over easy eggs without an egg turner. You just make sure the eggs are slipping and sliding freely and when it's time to flip them, you just do that little flip thing that chefs do with the pan and those eggs will flip right on over and the yolks don't even break. Well, at least two will flip. I haven't gotten the hang of three yet.
Do animals have a soul? I sure as hell hope so. The sweetest, most beautiful little doggie there's ever been is waiting for me at the rainbow bridge. Don't even try to tell me she isn't. Don't try to tell me anything you think you know, because we don't know shit. It's much better to believe in all possibilities than to discount anything, because if there is such a thing as absolute knowledge, only God has it. Only God could have it. All you have to do is realize that we are living according to what our senses report to us, and our brains are only painting a picture for us with what our senses report...and that picture isn't based on absolute reality.
You don't have to be a holy roller. But having a wide open mind helps, and having a wide open mind means giving holy rollers their due. Let us all believe what we need to believe and maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised.
I'm sorry about your mom. My mom decided to let go rather than deal with an unpleasant, forced continuation of her struggles. I begged her to try, because they said they could fix her. But I admired her courage and resolve, and her love of Jesus. They morphined her mercifully out of earthly existence and into a heavenly meeting with him, I like to think. If anyone ever deserved that, she did.
I hope I can be that brave. RIP, mom, maybe I'll see you again. And calm down, heelman. You never know.
I'm not sure. I was referring to Android phones. I don't have an iPhone, but my guess is it would be pretty similar.
I must have a different version of android or maybe it's because I don't have a Samsung. Is this the first android you have had?
I hope you do see your mom again. And if I see mine after we both pass I hope it’s the version of her I grew up with
I think this is something we can all relate to - and if can't, you probably just aren't old enough to have gotten there yet. And, if that's not the reason, I feel sorry that you weren't blessed with parents like mine, miss them everyday. Can only hope my kids feel the same way when it happens for them. Until then, I'm gonna enjoy them and their wee ones all the more. . . .
You guys with grandkids are very lucky and I envy you. My sons fiancé can’t have kids and my daughter so far doesn’t want any. It’s a bummer.
Nothing like it. And your son/fiancé should consider adoption. They'll never regret it for an instant. I've got a younger brother we took in as a teen, didn't even legally adopt him. We'd do anything in the world for each other and he feels the sting of losing our parents just as deeply. Seriously, they and you will still have that same joy.
yes, and possibly the last. I think the Android OS is the worst for digital dummies like me. It isn't at all intuitive, so I have in the past tried to use the internet to help out. It's no use. Virtually...maybe literally...every time the steps for some procedure are laid out, I'll look for the thing they say to click on and there is no such thing to click on. Or some other dead end.
But anyway, it has provided no answer to my question. It's OK though, my niece knows every little bit of whatever there is to know about this POS, and she can tell me. But I do appreciate your trying. Hope my little joke didn't offend you. You know I'm all about not offending anyone.
Ok. I was going to say if you had one in the past did the text, call history, etc transfer over. That would indicate that it was saving anything sent by text. I've found that all operating systems have the same bug in them that programers haven't been able to code away. It's called the olds bug. No matter what they do, people over a certain age remain worthless.
I'll readily admit to the olds thing; but truth be known, whatever they think they've done to fix it is even more worthless than any user might be. And worthless? What else would you call a company that puts out such a POS.
In the past, I have saved pics and other things to my PC hard drive by a cumbersome process which also left me wondering if everything I wanted to save was in fact saved. I am going to get the cloud deal figured out so I can save stuff as it occurs. Probably by going to an iphone.
iPhone is basically the same at this point. Both operating systems have matured to the point where there are very few differences. Sounds like it will be more expensive with apple, though. I've never heard of a company that charges for cloud storage from the start. It's normally after a certain amount of data, which most people never get to.
the worst thing about this phone is the screen. Sometimes I can NOT make it respond even with all manner of varying degrees of touch, usually while I'm trying to drive. Other times my hand just gets near it and odd screens start popping up left and right and the damn thing sounds like a freaking geiger counter. My previous iphone wasn't like that but I understand they now use the same screen as Samsung.
That's definitely a phone issue and not an operating system issue. Good thing about Android is you have a lot of phones to choose from. With apple, you only have an iPhone or an iPhone.
I know it's a phone issue, the problem being that Samsung is apparently now providing most touch screens, including the iphone. I used to complain to my sister about it and she said it wasn't a problem with her iphone. Then she got a new iphone and started having similar problems. She said that in checking on it, she found Samsung was now making the screens for them.
I had the same problem way back when with Motorola phones flip phones, and I suspect those were also Samsung screens. With the Motorola, I could put the phone down on my desk and hear something and look, and it would have dialed a number and was ringing. Random numbers sometimes, not even from the list.
Maybe it's my magnetic personality.
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