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Hey guys, I’m playing Pandemic Legacy and I was the first to eradicate the red virus so now I get to name it! Let me know if you have any good exocomics-related names :D

If you don’t know what Pandemic Legacy is then shhh don’t worry.

    • Mountainaire@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      It’s more like lending or loaning; you are the one who borrows or rents from them!

      Also, that’d be technically not true (“see everything”) if you were to password-protect your stuff over there. But yeah, that’d be way too much of a hassle; it’s best to get out own storage.

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    13 days ago

    I strongly prefer using USB for this, but it is unnecessarily complicated, it’s like

    Plug in USB > Settings > Connected devices > USB > Select “File Transfer”

    …Every time. Then the files will show up on your computer (hopefully), but it will still be complicated to figure out where the files you want are because phones are designed to mostly not expose the file system to users (no idea wtf DCIM stands for or why this is where photos are kept). My theory is they do this on purpose to discourage people from using it in favor of their cloud options where all your files are now directly accessible to them.

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      13 days ago

      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!

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        13 days ago

        I’ve memorized it too but there’s no denying that all this stuff represents a learning curve that imo is totally artificial and does not need to exist

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          12 days ago

          Um yeah, it could probably be optimized, but remember that computers carry a lot of history. I would guess that there may be Linux distros that set out to solve this matter.

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            12 days ago

            I guess that’s the significantly smaller issue anyway, I’d settle for not having to go into the settings of my phone every time I want to transfer files

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              11 days ago

              You can set up macros! There are macros that can launch apps and even simulate touches and finger-dragging. If you can’t do this, you can use scrcpy and run scripts on the computer to interact with your phone that way. There’s almost always a way to automate whatever you do repetitively.

              Or at least favorite or create shortcuts to your most commonly accessed folders. Eliminate as much travel time as possible if you already know your destination.

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                11 days ago

                Sure, but the real problem is that users of mobile phones as a whole are pushed away from local file transfer by a default UI that disfavors it. There could be a single toggle for this in the top menu alongside wifi, airplane mode and the flashlight, it could even connect the file systems by default like any other USB storage device does, or at least not require taking extra manual action every time beyond plugging the thing in. If someone is wondering how they can transfer their files, this is not likely to be the option they land on, even though on a technical level it is the simplest and most reliable.

                Apparently you can enable automatically connecting with “Default USB configuration”, which seems to be the most straightforward solution, but it’s a developer setting so there are extra hoops to go through.

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                  10 days ago

                  Oh yeah, absolutely. It’s ridiculous. Probably one of the biggest fundamental pains of connecting one’s devices… The Bluetooth menus are so stupidly convoluted.

  • Napster153@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Upload to yourself on your preferred message app.

    Open web broswer version of said app on laptop.

    Download your stuff.

    Now get back to work.

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    13 days ago

    While strictly the four diseases are considered viruses in the game, the symbol for red represents protozoans. According to this thread, the best match for the disease caused by the red is malaria.

    As for exocomics, we know from 772, that the robot wishes to destroy earth, so maybe some kind of nanobot?