It'd gotten bad enough that I couldn't reliably transfer data over usb. Now the cable fits snugly again

I just used a small sewing needle to pry out the lint. I tried using a toothpick at first, but it was too big to reach the bottom.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Congrats. (Yes, a period, not exclamation mark because this is Dullsters). 😆

May I recommend some alternatives to transferring data with USB: Syncthing, Resilio Sync, FolderSync.

First two have similar functionality, while FolderSync simply enables building sync jobs using standard network protocols: SMS, (S)FTP(S), NFS, web drives, etc.

Since these all use the network, and can be fully automatic (or used somewhat manually), they provide a more consistent and robust file transfer mechanism than MTP which is not the best.

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