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by dijit 109 days ago
Lets be real, the fact that the Air is good for developers is.. honestly, great.

But these devices are meant for home users.

Not a tremendous amount of home users having huge gradle/go/cargo/node packages in my experience.

The backup problem is real, I'm surprised Apple doesn't come out with a new time capsule (edit: for phones/tablets)- but I guess they want that sweet iCloud services dollar.
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Forgeties79 109 days ago
maybe I’m forgetting all the benefits of time capsule but you can plug any old storage device into a Mac now and turn it into a “Time Machine.“ It’s pretty turnkey at this point. What would a modern time capsule offer besides maybe remote back ups?
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dijit 109 days ago
oh no, absolutely- apologies for the confusion.

Time "Machine" on MacOS continues to work (though it's clearly not as important to Apple as it once was).

The issue is: if you want to back up a phone: it will take space from your laptop and it must be tethered to do the backup. This means that if you have a 1TiB phone, like I do, you need at least 1TiB of local disk on your laptop to be able to do a single backup if the phone is anywhere near full.

This is in contrast to how Time Capsule works right now for MacOS, whereby you have an SMB share (like, a 100+TiB NAS) and your laptop will just back itself up when it can.

Such a feature would be pretty killer on iPhones/iPads, or having a "photo server" to offload your photos... idk, but Apple won't do it.

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freeone3000 109 days ago
I’ve been using Immich to offload photos, and it’s been working well so far.
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throwaway290 109 days ago
Can you symlink iphone backup location to an external drive?
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dijit 109 days ago
might be smarter to try mounting the drive on the path that backups use, instead of hoping that the software follows symlinks.

That said, we're very much in "power user" territory now, and it does nothing to support the untethered use-case that Time Machine allows.

In fact, the real punch of my comment before was that this would be a way of selling additional hardware (the old time-capsules) to consumers.

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Forgeties79 109 days ago
That’s a really good point.
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