Damn! Damn! Damn!

[jeff alder]

We have a few old flip-phones at the house I tried to re-enable, but all of them are either 2G or 3G, and that's no longer supported. And I really wanted to go the "dumb phone" route this time, but I have a LOT of things I need to get done, and ZERO time to do any research, so I just handed my credit card over and said, "Make it happen, same as my old phone."

So I have a new Apple SE phone, same as my old one.

But I'll be more careful to back-up my pictures (manually, onto our PC) this time around, you can be sure of that!

you can still get an old flip phone at WAL MART. My wife had to get a new "smart" phone as hers took a dump and I looked at all the phones and there was ONE and ONLY ONE flip phone on display in a glass case with purple rope barriers and spider webs around it. LOL But the sales kid claimed they had more brand new in boxes.

 

[ProjectBazza]

you can still get an old flip phone at WAL MART. My wife had to get a new "smart" phone as hers took a dump and I looked at all the phones and there was ONE and ONLY ONE flip phone on display in a glass case with purple rope barriers and spider webs around it. LOL But the sales kid claimed they had more brand new in boxes.

(LOL!) They had it in the Antiques & Collectibles section, huh?

 

[jeff alder]

(LOL!) They had it in the Antiques & Collectibles section, huh?

The sales kid claimed it was the Solomon K. Guggenheim museum for old phones. Karrin called him out on it because Solomon's middle name is actually Robert. LOL I actually considered buying it as it was exactly like the one I had cut up with the lawn mower 5 years ago when I last had one. It was post 3g so useable, but it was over 100 bucks. I paid 19.95 for the last one I had.

 

[Righty Tighty]

Good god, it was just a suggestion. I had no idea people felt so strongly about storing photos online. It's funny though, I'd bet almost all of you conduct online banking and don't think twice....

 

[Scody21]

I wear Duluth Trading Fire Hose pants damn near exclusively, and they have that same pocket...

And I would have noticed the lack of weight in that pocket if I didn't always carry two phones with me (one personal, and one work).

You do know most of the newer phone are dual sim capable, so you can have a personal line and work line on the same phone.

 

[Killer6]

Quick update: I just back from the Apple store, and I'm back in business. No, they couldn't locate my old phone (the battery had died), and since I didn't upload my photos to the Cloud, they're gone.

At the risk of coming-off as overly sentimental, that hurts a LOT, as I had about a years worth of valuable photos and memories on there, and I told my wife last night I feel like one of our dogs has died.

I guess I'll throw this out there, I don't suppose it could've slipped between the bumper & bed/tailgate, landing in the framing or brackets....most likely if You backed out & stopped it went the other way, but working on cars for a living for decades, I've seen sh*t end up places You wouldn't believe...lol!
As far as backup, no cloud for Me, it could be on a server in Indonesia. I just dump 'em into the PC via Bluetooth, or a laptop/tablet I'm not using for anything else, then You can put them on thumbdrives or burn 'em to a disc.

 

[ProjectBazza]

Good god, it was just a suggestion. I had no idea people felt so strongly about storing photos online. It's funny though, I'd bet almost all of you conduct online banking and don't think twice....

Given that analogy I guess I look at it this way:

Banking institutions have rules, restrictions, and oversight ("guardrails", if you will) regarding data privacy. Sure, bad actors can (and do) hack into them, but at least it's not easy for them.

Cloud storage companies, on the other hand, have little to none of these things, and when someone who worked (newly retired) for a cloud storage company says that even he wouldn't use, or recommend using, their services, and then explains why (lack of data privacy, losing control or ownership of your files, etc), I tend to listen to him.

 

[Killer6]

You do know most of the newer phone are dual sim capable, so you can have a personal line and work line on the same phone.

So We can take work everywhere with Us? So it can fall in the mortar box? So it can land in a pan full of antifreeze? So it can bounce off of a roof drip-edge & hit half of the scaffold tubing on the way down? So it can pop out while You're pushing a box out of the way for Your buddy on the skidloader w/his OSHA earplugs in who can't hear You yelling stop as He backs over it? Asking for a friend......

 

[missing linc]

So We can take work everywhere with Us? So it can fall in the mortar box? So it can land in a pan full of antifreeze? So it can bounce off of a roof drip-edge & hit half of the scaffold tubing on the way down? So it can pop out while You're pushing a box out of the way for Your buddy on the skidloader w/his OSHA earplugs in who can't hear You yelling stop as He backs over it? Asking for a friend......

Sounds almost like you are speaking from experience.

I dropped a brand new, only had it a few days, high $ flip phone into a bucket of antifreeze once, long ago. That was a quick end to that one. I also dropped my first new 'smartphone on the concrete floor of my garage within the first month of owning it, fortunately for me the repair was half covered by the warranty.

Best phone I've ever had was a military spec Motorola flip phone. It survived everything I did to it, including dropping it off my motorcycle at about 30 mph, barely a scratch.

 

[Righty Tighty]

Given that analogy I guess I look at it this way:

Banking institutions have rules, restrictions, and oversight ("guardrails", if you will) regarding data privacy. Sure, bad actors can (and do) hack into them, but at least it's not easy for them.

Cloud storage companies, on the other hand, have little to none of these things, and when someone who worked (newly retired) for a cloud storage company says that even he wouldn't use, or recommend using, their services, and then explains why (lack of data privacy, losing control or ownership of your files, etc), I tend to listen to him.

That's logical.

 

[Big_John]

Well, if there aren't any naked pics of the neighbor's wives

When we fired a salesman at work, we found that he had used his work phone to take some ummm... inappropriate pics of his girlfriend. A lot of them.

You just can't fix stupid.

 

[Righty Tighty]

Now that's what I'd like to steal from the cloud!