A lot of crazy stuff going on with Sony these days and they've had some pretty bad breaches in the past. As much as I love playing games I'm not sure about all this cloud crap the console industry seems to have thrust on everyone.
 
I liked the old days when you bought a big honkin' piece of plastic for way too much money and crammed it into another way too expensive piece of plastic then just played. The most annoying thing you'd have to deal with was pulling the cartridge out and blowing into it to unfreeze the game. But it is possible I'm getting old... lulzity.

Yeah, I think that is where we were when we started, using the pictures folder on the hard drive. The problem started when trying to move photos from an iPhone to computer and not knowing arse from hole in ground. Adding iTunes, adding Dropbox and then they took over. I don't have that many photos and just let my phone sync to Dropbox when I use my laptop to charge it but since my wife had so many on her phone, what should not have been a problem, became a whole nuther problem because of not knowing what I was doing. I hate Apple.
I don't know why I have an iPhone. Maybe I will lose it in July when my contract is up and get something else. Then I'll be able to afford a phone and a tablet! I bet I wont have nearly as many problems. I just want to "plug and play".
 
J

I don't even know what the Cloud is... does it use a little bit of everyone's computers or is it a bunch of servers or what? A humongous hard drive somewhere? My ex-son in law works for Google. He told me that they have enormous SSDs, way bigger than anything available on the consumer level. They also pick their employees up at their homes, drive them to work, have a chef make lunch everyday, then drive them back home. It is about a 45 minute drive one way from his house. Google is decadent. They have a cloud too! I should ask him what exactly is it?
I have 100+ year old receipts and letters from my great grandparents... I suspect 100+ years from now there will be nothing left from this era, it will all get lost to some "glitch" or hacker. No photos, no records, no nothing. Like anyone will care.
 
J

I only had the Dropbox app installed for all of about an hour a few years ago but I think there are a bunch of settings to control things like the auto transfer/upload stuff. If you wanted to keep the Dropbox upload folder thing (which is kind of useful but not something I liked) I'd look for a setting that stops it from automatically uploading to their site. I have no idea how iTunes works because that's another thing I installed years ago and hated... like completely and utterly and thoroughly hated. Of course MS decided to try to copy Apple's weird, intrusive model and ruined WMP which I used to like.
 
Now if I want to start a tunes library I'll just use Pyro and I've been meaning to snag Quicktime for vids. Seriously WMP is soooo crappy these days. I'd still prefer it to iTunes hell... which BTW has been known to cause some serious security issues.
 
A normal celphone and a nice tablet sounds like an awesome plan. I've got an ancient Nokia I think I'm gonna hook back up that doesn't do anything but send texts and, beleieve it or not, makes PHONE CALLS by pressing some BUTTONS. Crazy, eh?
 
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The cloud is just marketing speak for servers. There's no single cloud nor does it work like torrenting (which does store scattered data on end users systems for a larger community to access). Really THE "cloud" doesn't exist... the media and corporations just want you to think it does because it sounds cool and makes everyone feel like they're living in an episode of the Jetsons. That way people are convinced they are working hard to provide us will all this cool awesome futuristic stuff we should totally fork over all our cash for.
 
Meanwhile most of this crap has been around for decades. All they've really done is change how we poke at it all, made it shinier and made sure everything is hooked up to everything else ALL THE TIME!!
 
Don't get me wrong... I love technology but the marketing hoopla really is ridiculous. Whar flying cars? WHAR?!
 

Apple are into the whole ecosystem paradigm, that's where their priority is and everything is designed to accommodate just that, so practically speaking, the minute you decide to opt out, you'll be struggling against it.
 
I didn't like iTunes all that much when I was on PC, though I can't remember exactly how things worked for pictures. So it's definitely not just you.
 
Since I'm on Mac and everything here is Apple, I am actually enjoying what the ecosystem means to me. It's pretty much all benefits. 
 
Doesn't mean that we don't occasionally have to struggle when trying to sync things, even within the ecosystem. 
 
 
 

I don't recall how to get to it at the moment, and am about to start a recording session with some guy that has a twitchy lip and does Elvis tunes, but look into the options for each of those 'helpful' utilities that are fighting each other to automatically take any particular course of action when a memory card is detected, and see if you can remove whatever tells it to stick its nose automatically in your business and take over the world.
 
Windows has auto-options as well, like when it asks you what action you want to take when it detects a blank CD or DVD, etc....
 
I HATE those automatic programs - specially if I have multiple choices - like your situation here.
 
Bob Bone
 

I'll figure it out if she will let me. If not, well... she can sort it out. I'll get it done.