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  • A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage

    A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you wanted an iPhone with a terabyte of storage it would cost you 1549 CHF for the iPhone 16 Pro. With the Fairphone 4 128 GB model you would pay 329 CHF for the phone and 101 to 109 CHF for a 1TB card. That’s about 440 CHF and you’d have…

  • Migrating to ExFAT

    Migrating to ExFAT

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile on one of my numerous walks I heard about ExFAT being compatible between windows, macOS and Linux so I was tempted to experiment with the file system. I heard this while listening to a podcast as I often do. When I was on an iBook, or a Mac Book Pro, or…

  • Immich and iPhone Storage

    Immich and iPhone Storage

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen experimenting with the Immich iPhone app I found it impossible to upload beyond 15,000 images and I supposed that it was because the phone timed out before it had checked all the previous files before moving on to the last four thousand images. In reality the problem is that Immich downloads…

  • Experimenting with Nextcloud and A Raspberry Pi 4

    Experimenting with Nextcloud and A Raspberry Pi 4

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesNextcloud is an open source file sharing solution that has iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows and Linux apps. You can install it via a docker container, natively or via a number of other solutions. For my experiment I installed via Docker on Windows but haven’t done anything with it, and with [Nextcloudpi](https://nextcloudpi.com/). The…

  • A Simple iPhone – iCloud solution

    A Simple iPhone – iCloud solution

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few years ago I bought a 256 gigabyte iphone because I wanted more space and for a long time it was great because it meant that I had plenty of room to grow into. The issue comes when you get to over 200 gigabytes of data stored in iCloud because you…

  • KDrive – A Viable alternative to Google One and iCloud

    KDrive – A Viable alternative to Google One and iCloud

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesKDrive peaks my interest because instead of cost over 100 dollars per year it costs around 64 if you buy directly from their website rather than The Apple App Store, but also because once you send your photos up to the cloud, you can get them down more easily. With Google One…