or just a normal ass USB a to c cord
The real gangstas are living in the C to C future.
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never underestimate the data transfer speed of a truckload of hard drives
Hate on Google and Microsoft all you want but their cloud services are pretty convenient.
Bluetooth
Pretty slow for a big file.
Quicker than using your zune to squirt a song over IR
I think Bluetooth is only around 2Mbps. For a lot of people (at least in developed countries) it’d even be quicker to upload the file somewhere then download it on the other device.
I’ve been using floppy disks. You mean there are other options now?
I need a USBC floppy drive now. “Hey, can I get that pic you took?”
“Sure! Its on these 4 floppies!”
There is a little “most advanced transfer solutions” in your Spyware
The amount of times sending myself an email is still the quickest thing is insane. Sure I could try to use notion or keep to send myself some random string of text but am I logged in on my desktop? Idk. Just use email.
Also there are so many things like air drop, nfc, etc, but so many of them are so specific to certain devices. Maybe one day we’ll figure this out lol
Glad I’m not the only one! I am extra old and use my Hotmail too…
Most of my emails are to myself going back and forth between PC and phone lol
You don’t even have to send it, you can save as draft.
That’s brilliant. Thank you
Bluetooth file transfer my beloved
That only works if the target is near. You may as well have said semaphore or signal fire.
It’s also pretty slow
Also a lot of desktops don’t have bluetooth
And even the Desktops with Bluetooth can often have in incompatible version for file transfers. Bluetooth is a mess.
My PC does not have bluetooth
:(
Not a single network file transfer protocol in the list.
Imagine not knowing about stuff like SCP/SFTP or SMB.
Pfft I’ve bet you’ve never even tried cross-pollinating a syncmap blockchain to your distributed SM-IP 42G node
Noob
I’m pretty sure the average user doesn’t even know what a “server” really is, let alone know how to set up an FTP server.
Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer? It’s this not a thing anymore?
Why the extra step of writing it to thumb drive?
Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer?
That’s right, you cannot. Well, sometimes you can. MTP is quite an unreliable technology, at least for Linux users. Sometimes you’ll plug in a device and it’ll work fine, other times it won’t even show up.
P.S. and yes I have enabled MTP on the android device
Idk
I just plugged my pixel into my Ubuntu laptop, and tapped on the USB charging notification on my phone, selected “more options” and changed the selection from “no data transfer” to “move files”.Then my Ubuntu file viewer could see all my files. Or at least a lot of them.
I would do this before using a double sided USB
That’s not a USB drive, it’s an adapter.
Male to male?
People are going to plug their phone directly into their computer without a cable?They are, but I don’t recommend it unless you want at least one of the ports to snap internally as it hangs out the front of the PC.
Ha gayyyyy
The adapter shown is functionally identical to a usb 2 to usb c cable. I believe the meme is essentially suggesting the same thing you did with using a file explorer.
Kinda… But who the fuck has a male/female USB or usb-c cable sitting around???
One of the ends of this adapter should be female, or this should just be an A/C cord. The fact that it’s not made me think that this is actually a thumbdrive, not that I can confirm if it actually is or what OP actually meant.
Why would you need a male/female USB?
This device is basically just a really short charging/data cable. I don’t understand what’s so confusing about it. It’s functionally identical to using the standard charging cable, just with the devices closer together.
Because in practice you’re gonna need a cable anyways, since it’s a vanishingly small chance that your phone’s port lines up perfectly with your computer’s port when you set it down.
Maybe you can find a book that’s just the right height to put your phone on (RIP if you have a desktop), but just having a cable is still a better option.This is either a male/male adapter, or a thumb drive… In either case, a-to-c USB cable would be a better solution, and a less confusing image.
I agree that a cable would be wildly more useful than what’s pictured, for what it’s worth.
That said (tangentially related), I have a few male/female usb cables and they’re a godsend. Extremely handy for game controllers and/or extenders for bluetooth or wireless device dongles.
Nope, it’s a USB drive.
Quite a few of the usual memory device manufacturers make drives that have a Type A USB plug on one end, and either Micro USB or Type C on the other. They’re specifically meant for one end to easily plug into your PC, and the other end to go into your phone. Not, obviously, both at the same time.
Example: https://www.pny.com/duo-link-usb-3-2-type-c-dual-flash-drive
I have one sitting in my desk that’s so old it still has a Micro USB connector on it and is therefore not terribly useful in this day and age.
Most phones are only USB 2.0. I don’t know why you would want to mess with that if you don’t have to.
These are the people who take screenshots with their phone cameras.
OP is just revealing that they don’t understand device-to-device file transfers.
remember when it was somehow trendy to take a picture with snapchat and the screenshot it to it shows the tools on right and post that on instagram? that shit was stupid as hell
I still do that all the time. I work with a bunch of different computers and it’s easier than sending a file or writing the info down.
I get that there’s device to device file transfers, but it’s slower, and other employees would undoubtedly fill my phone with garbage screenshots, if not virus furry porn.
I shamelessly take pictures of my screen all the time if I have to.
Maybe not trusting their computer having full access to their phone’s files?
Almost no phone would allow that nowadays.
No phone allow which? Writing to a thumb drive (I believe that) or connecting to a computer directly?
Just tried connecting my pixel 7 to my Ubuntu laptop and it worked. Im pretty sure I’ve done it with windows too, on previous pixel phones.
Sftp
Attach it to a draft email. Log in on the other thing, go to drafts, download your file, delete draft.
Where SD card?
One double sided USB SD card reader with adapter for multiple cards sizes
I have a USB c multi adapter somewhere. Had SD, micro SD, USB a to put a mouse on a phone or a regular flash drive. It was nifty until I lost it. A lot of modern mobos come with a USB c port so it’s almost a universal tool.
Most of the newest phones can’t take SD cards anymore.
One of many reasons I haven’t replaced mine.
its amazing how its generally easier to transfer sonething to a server a country over for it to then reach the other device. instead of it going directly over local network speeds.
also how its much easier to backup to google than to you own computer thats right there.
It’s really not if you have the right setup at home, instead of using somebody else’s servers. Like nobody has a NAS or their own servers?
It’s much nicer not worrying about who can get to my files in the cloud, when they’re not in the cloud.
