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0 pointsBrian_K_White3y ago0 comments

These are all such terrible answers to that question they serve as supporting the comment's implicated critique. I don't mean that your answer is incorrect. You are correct that these are the simplest means provided to accomplish that task.

But the provided means are gross.

You shouldn't need to go out to the internet, consume a cloud service, and come back, just to go from your phone to your laptop, and all of these big service providers shouldn't be making it so that that is the path of least resistance, or even damned near the only possible path.

It's a great example of how the incentives of the companies are opposite to those of the users.

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cpach3y ago

If someone prefers another workflow, there’s always Android/Windows/Linux…

Brian_K_WhiteOP3y ago

Saying 'workflow' misses the point and seems to almost intentionally miss the point by turning the criticism into a criticismmof something trivial or a mere preference instead of the fundamental wrong that it is.

The internet and the cloud are great and super convenient. But that is a seperate issue from companies steering everyone into actually requiring good internet speed and lots of bandwidth cap, and the consumption of subscription storage space, or worse free storage space where ypu are the product, not because ypu choose to but because no other option is even presented.

The critique was not about some preferred sequence of buttons to click no different from any other sequence. I decline to believe you didn't understand that when you said "workflow".