cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43951539

#503 (2018-01-24)

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Do I have an account? I got an email about it

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Hey guys, I’m playing Pandemic Legacy and I was the first to eradicate the red virus so now I get to name it! Let me know if you have any good exocomics-related names :D

If you don’t know what Pandemic Legacy is then shhh don’t worry.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Possibly 🤷🏻

      You never know what our feline overlords get up to, especially in a comic set in a place that used to (more officially) revere them as divine 😉

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      That is way too unreliable to recommend.

      At least based on my anecdote of trying it throughout the years across 4 phones and 5 machines, only having success on 1 phone and a laptop specifically.

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
    4·
    8 hours ago

    The cloud is a tool to charge you money to do simple tasks you could already do for free like move photos from a phone to a computer.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    231·
    12 hours ago

    Depends.

    Android? Easy. Just plug it in and then just do the old drag’n’drop.

    iPhone? Oof. Um. Yeah… Uh…

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      3·
      12 hours ago

      My iPhone syncs to my Mac wirelessly. I open Photos, I drag and drop to desktop.

      I’m trying to figure out how to replicate this on Linux before I switch to Graphene and Linux fully.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.world
        16·
        11 hours ago

        The main issue is/was when you have and iPhone and you don’t have a Mac and you don’t have an iTunes sync account.

        Sure, for an iPhone it’s all fine and dandy when you’re fully buying into their closed and restricted ecosystem. But try to step one tippy toe out of it and you’re in for pain.

        Anyway, as for the latter; KDE Connect, like the other guy said.

        • jama211@lemmy.world
          1·
          52 minutes ago

          That is also not an issue. There are loads of ways. You can literally drag them out of the phone on a windows machine, it appears as a camera when plugged in. I can even open the files app on my iphone and drag them directly onto my windows server share. Or plug a usb-c thumb drive into the phone and whack em on there.

          It’s no longer 2009 lol.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      18·
      13 hours ago

      As a Gen-X, you’re damn right. Remember, the cloud just means someone else’s computer. On some occasions that’s okay, like a secure backup that’s encrypted. The rest, only put what you 1) don’t mind everyone seeing, and 2) don’t care if you lose.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    12·
    14 hours ago

    I thought it was a riddle that I didn’t understand. But I also thought “photos” said “potatos” until I zoomed in.

    So. Riddle. How do you move your potatos from your phone to your PC?

    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Well, you see the first step is to boil the potatoes. It softens the starches and makes the next step easier.

      The second step is to mash roughly one half of the potatoes and set them aside.

      For the third step, you will cut the remaining potatoes into roughly one inch (2.5cm) cubes. After that you will, and this is critical, stick them in a stew.

      Let the stew simmer until the onions dissolve and the carrots soften.

      Now you can serve the stew over the mashed potatoes and then smuggle them out of the phone in your stomache.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I’m imagining it like a scene from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. You’re meatwad. Playing with potatos, and imaging they’re expensive electronics. But it’s just potatoes with magic marker drawn on them to look like a cell phone, and a PC.