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.

On both counts:

Isn't lemmy instances stored on servers, aka the cloud...?

Do not try and move the potatoes. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth:

There are no potatoes.

Very carefully.

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.

Plans Potatoes within plans potatoes.

Trick question, in this economy my phone and my PC are my potatoes

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.

On Fedora Linux it's also just drag and drop with an iPhone.

I use syncthing.

Immich

rsync

Personal NAS: Cloud, but better (amongst other things)

Hard drive - foreign rack (18)

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 😉

Hey that's not a riddle

Just my go-to expression for "really fucking old" 😁

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.

Seems good, I just wish they'd let you fucking remove it if you don't want to use it. Of all of the apps to stop the end user from removing, the one that's made specifically to communicate with outside devices...

I don't like that.

This always failed for me even when they were on the same network. Syncthing works really well, though, as do P2P transfer websites like ToffeeShare.com or CheezyPizza.in.

This is by far the best alternative!

KDE Connect

Syncthing, Immich

Took me 10 seconds to look it up: Digital Camera IMages, which I'm pretty sure existed before clouds were ever popularized, BTW. I've just memorized the path. You can also Bluetooth stuff over, though long vids may take longer... except to the walled garden of Apple, gross!

Then the messenger company can glance at your stuff. Nothing beats Syncthing, cable, Bluetooth, P2P transfer apps, or open-source transfer websites (like CheezyPizza.in).

Syncthing works very well for continuous synchronization between many devices, including phones (android at least), just set up and forget