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latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Well, there are always ready-to-go solutions. A 1TB external drive isn’t all that expensive nowadays, and they’re enough for daily use!

Plus, honestly… there are soo many tutorials online about how to set up everything, amd most things are a couple of commands one has to copy/paste into a command prompt. The anxiety is far worse than the procedure itself.

Maybe what’s needed is propagating these tutorials more, make them visible and highlight their accessibility in terms of procedural difficulty!

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_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

most things are a couple of commands one has to copy/paste into a command prompt.

how many people do you think know what a command prompt is? because quite frankly even knowing that much is very uncommon for the vast, overwhelming majority of the population.

you’re talking about condensing years of learning into a few tutorials, as if it’s nothing. idk if it’s smug superiority, or you’re literally just ignorant of how much you know that the average person does not, but it’s fucking wild that you think the average person is going to be able to do what we do without giving up.

this ain’t a hobby for everyone else, it’s difficult and frustrating work.

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- dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Is there a way to automatically back up a device to an external drive like that? An advantage of the cloud is it’s automatic. So I don’t have to manually do it all the time or risk losing recent files.

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- feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Absolutely. Plenty of backup software will work with an external drive, provided it’s plugged in. Hell even a cron job would work.
  
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  - Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I don’t know about LibertyLizard, but I thought they were asking how to do that when one is out and about, and the external drive is at home
    
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    feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Ah, I see. Definitely possible to set up something like nextcloud or immich for file and photo backup. Then use a VPN like tailscale or wireguard to access while out of the house, or setting it up publicly available (usually being a reverse proxy).
    
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