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Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by Aoyagi » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC

harel wrote: post #13

Phone -> USB Cable -> Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum. Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

It's still a pain if said device doesn't support USB OTG and you have to deal with MTP.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by RankingMember » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:05 PM UTC

I think a lot of us have had thoughts like these, but damn man, reading that was like watching Lewis Black - you think you're witnessing someone having a stroke/heart attack.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by repsilat » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:05 PM UTC

harel wrote: post #13

Phone -> USB Cable -> Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum. Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

My phone and computer are on the same wireless network, so the cable is a little silly. I use an ftp server on my phone, and my file browser just deals with it like a normal folder. Adverts in the ftp server, though, a little ridiculous.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by basicallydan » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:05 PM UTC

eCa wrote: post #30

> Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking Google Fixed it. (But I agree with regards to Maps Classic, it is superior to the new maps in almost all ways (for me, at least).)

Heh, I see your point but he does move on a little bit to other things :)

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by falcolas » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

harel wrote: post #13

Phone -> USB Cable -> Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum. Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

Many phones make this harder than it needs to be as well... my experience with a Motorola phone I had a few years ago:

Install driver X, restart your computer, unplug and replug the phone, shut down auto-starting "image manager" BS which came with the driver, look for (and fail to find) the raw mounted USB device, reload the propitiatory image manager, import the files, look for an export which actually exports the files and not a degraded version, and...

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by basicallydan » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

He's just saying what we're all thinking, people!

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by jhasse » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

harel wrote: post #13

Phone -> USB Cable -> Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum. Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

Or even better: https://syncthing.net/

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by a_bonobo » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:07 PM UTC

Aoyagi wrote: post #31

harel wrote: post #13

Phone -> USB Cable -> Computer. Transfer images via said cable. Select images, put in email and send to mum. Having said that - all his points are valid, though I'm not sure I'd bother to get that angry at stuff that is out of my contorl.

It's still a pain if said device doesn't support USB OTG and you have to deal with MTP.

Sometimes USB isn't an option:

The USB interface on my old Samsung Galaxy S2 broke (seems to be a common problem), now the connection just charges, data transfer is borked under Windows and Linux.

So I thought it would be "easy" to use WLAN for that - Samsung itself wants you to use "Kies", proprietary software which works only under Windows. Once I had located the right old version for my apparently-too-old phone, I started to back up my photos. But Kies decides to be super-duper-slow and downloads with 1 kb/s, so it predicts about 48 hours of copying.

Luckily there's sftp on the play store, with that and scp under Fedora it took 5 minutes.

It's like they want you to hate them.

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by millzlane » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #27

I just managed to bulk select and download 100 photos from Google Photos within 15 seconds of trying.

Did you use Google drive too?

Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web

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Post by TeMPOraL » Mon, May 11, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #27

I just managed to bulk select and download 100 photos from Google Photos within 15 seconds of trying.

And just recently, I couldn't. The presence of the option to download pictures is random and seems to depend on whether this is your album or it was created by someone else and shared with you. Most of the time I need to download something it's the latter, and the option to download doesn't show up there.