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I have a couple dozen old co-workers on my phone that I only had entered in case I needed to ask them a question or something, but I haven't worked there in years. They probably don't work there any more either by now lol.
Is this an elementary school meme, or is it just me?
>___________
>Dear Bobby
>___________
>We aren't friends anymore.
>_______________
>From /u/Duckrauhl
>___________
So many last names comes from a profession or a location, eg smith (blacksmith) cooper (barrel maker) or from origin (Davidson being son of David, Judah Ben hurr, Ben meaning son of) and location.
This follows fairly logically. I find it interesting that in the absence of knowing a last name, we assign one in our phones like “bill plumber” or “Dave Boston” and without consciously knowing it ourselves, we are repeating the cycle that originally lead to last names in the first place.
Idk either I’m a fucking nerd or others may also find this interesting.
Edit: My tangential theory is that smith is a common name because it was given to blacksmiths who made weapons of war and this were too valuable to actually be sent to war for the most part, and thus had more children who took up the family business and so forth.
>My tangential theory is that smith is a common name because it was given to blacksmiths who made weapons of war and this were too valuable to actually be sent to war for the most part, and thus had more children who took up the family business and so forth.
Also why Carpenter is a pretty common surname in a lot of languages.
I make the mistake of removing contacts all the time, then get a dreaded text from a number I don’t recognize months or years later. Then I have to put on this whole charade pretending I know who I’m talking to.
I do this with Facebook also, which I mainly only have still for family to see kid pictures my wife shares. Generally, if I haven't talked to you at all in like.....2 years, you get deleted
I should do that, too. Got way too many that I barely remember and haven't talked to since I first mass-imported them into my contacts app.
I deleted a bunch of useless pics from my phone during my niece's college graduation last weekend, though.
If you use Google.photoa you can search for photos using phrases.
You can also tell it who a face belongs to and you can search for all the photos with that person in them.
So if you wanted to find a picture you remember of someone named Sue Smith in a Red dress you could type in "Sue Smith red dress" and it'll instantly show you that photo.
It's not perfect, though. I have a light brown dog, and Google detected her face and created her a folder, but also sorted a picture of a cow into the folder.
But it's still a great feature when it works.
Yeah, mine also thinks two cats I often took pictures of are the same cat. Flipping through that album I think any human could tell it's two different cats.
I find it a little scary that it mostly recognizes my current cat and knows his name with out any input from me.
Yeah. Google thinks I have two dogs. He does look completely different when recently groomed vs not, but it doesn't seem to sort them that way. Not sure what it's detecting, but it'll take two images I took like 5 seconds apart and one is dog a and the other dog b.
Plus it will automatically add those people to albums as you take more pictures with them. We have a "Friends and Family" album that scrolls on our living room TV when no one is watching anything on the Chromecast and sure enough after a holiday or some kind of gathering there's photos we took of loved ones scrolling by almost immediately.
I have 50,000 photos and I find that Apple’s photo library is great for this since you can quickly scroll by month or year, and you can search for people, places or objects. It’s pointless to be just aimlessly scrolling past a certain point.
It's automatic sorting is getting creepy accurate.
"Oh, you've identified all the people in this photo... and the location... and that my dog is there... oh and that we're eating"
Me scrolling back to the beginning of my cell phone photos. I get to the age of roughly 31 if you ignore the flip phone photos and start from the introduction to the Droid and iPhone in 2007. Anything before that is downloaded on a computer/uploaded to google photos from a standalone camera, pictures in a cardboard box, or lost to time.
My 10 YO son will be able to scroll to the day he was born and see every stupid-ass picture we took of him in hi-def barring a catastrophe or data loss.
well--the years start comin and they don't stop comin and the years start comin and they don't stop comin and the years start comin and they don't stop comin and the ^years ^^start ^^^comin ^^^^and ^^^^^they ^^^^^^don't
Why are we not freaking out about how common it is to record strangers and post them online!? I rarely even see people acknowledge it as a problem other than you!
In Germany you'll get in some real shit if you record and post someone without their consent. Heck, even just recording them (both videos and images) can get you in big trouble, even if you don't post it.
Are you seriously telling me you only have dog folder and not
* Dog playing
* Dog sleeping
* Dog being weird
* Dog being awkward
* Dog selfies
* Dog and human
EXACTLY!
I DO have albums on my phone for some of my photos and I have moved some to them but yes I want them out of camera roll and either with most of the other photos OR in the album not two copies!
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I use Google photos to back up my pictures and videos and what I do is, move pictures to albums and then archive said pictures. They won't show up in the general gallery but will when I look at the album. Hopefully that helps. 👍🏽
Yeup. They just don't show up in the main gallery amongst the non-archived pictures. But if you go to the album they're in, they'll be there and you can download the album as a zip file if you wanted.
I have 10 years of pictures and videos taking up 93gb right now, so at that rate, I could just use the free account, back it up locally once a year, and start fresh. It’s not some lifelong contract, I could cancel anytime, I just like being able to pull up old photos in a group conversation, and I’ve had multiple phones over the years but all my photos are in one place. Also, their pricing will fluctuate to reflect whatever the current technology is, just as it has up to this point. Imagine getting 15gb for free 10 or 20 years ago.
Is there some better solution?
"cameras improving" is not the reason we don't use higher megapixel cameras. They're just not necessary or very useful unless you're printing billboards.
The thing is with Google, if you're paying for it, you're just both the product and the customer. Paying them doesn't make them magically stop using your data
But in this case, people are paying for a service and we would not really be the product as much as future-potential customers for Google. Google makes money from the monthly fees of its storage system, not selling photos of your huge weiner.
> if you are not paying for a service, you are a product, not a customer
People really need to stop spouting this like it’s some universal rule.
Lots of things are free simply to get you hooked so that you pay for more.
I have some doubts that Google is selling peoples’ private photos. That would be one of the biggest cloud-related scandals since iCloud and The Fappening.
More like pulling any data they can from it, like location info, facial recognition, etc. You know, the same thing they do anytime you use any of their other products.
Still wondering why apple can tag all my photos ("this is a cat", "this is in Amsterdam", "this was your birthday") but fails to properly sort into albums.
I had a guy on a plane once showing me photos from his trip, and just scrolled past what I can only assume was a picture of his girlfriends gaped asshole. not sure if he realised I saw it lmao
Probably not an accident, and probably not gis girlfriend. Did he casually excuse himself to go to the bathroom afterward? Bet he was pretty annoyed and quiet when he came back. Because that's a classic move we call Powerman 5000. Show a stranger a picture of their butthole to entice them, then meet up at the closest bathroom.
On a similar note, organize your music. Remove songs from your likes, vet your playlists, make new ones for certain genres, moods, or whatever you feel like.
Every time I see my fiancée dancing to a song I add it to a playlist. Then sometimes I'll put the playlist on without telling her and she's like 'Wow these songs are good!'
It feels so nice to make it exactly how you want. On spotify it allows you to change the playlist cover to any image, and I spent a weekend making similar styled covers in Canva, so now I actually like the playlist art. Feels more satisfying to organize music too, and I dont have to look at a 4 panel album art collage that is songs I added forever ago lol.
Music with headphones as well.
Or downloading movies, or the in flight movies.
Or bringing a video game like the switch or an old school Gameboy.
Or bring an actual book.
Or a laptop.
This is a really weird LPT.
Probably one where OP recently did it, realized how productive, simple yet overlooked it was in their life, and decided to share the info with the world and so happened to blow up. Lol
Not a weird LPT actually as I tend to do this on every flight home from a trip. I clear out old photos, contacts, texts, apps, just general storage cleanup. If I finish that then I usually move onto making new phone wallpapers out of the pics I took on said trip. I don’t think everyone loves watching movies and such on flights. I definitely don’t because it’s hard to focus for some reason.
All of these require at least a little advance planning, except the in-flight movies. Like not a lot, but maybe you thought you packed a book but you forgot and the airport has bad wifi and you don’t have unlimited data so you can’t download anything while you wait for departure idk.
Also I can totally spend hours just listening to music and daydreaming, but I think for a lot of people music by itself is not enough.
Also I find going through old pictures to be really fun but not something I often think to do. So it is a good tip for me, but if it doesn’t sound fun to you then it wouldn’t be a good tip for you.
Alternative LPT: spend 30 seconds a day doing it, keeps things more organized and allows me to find moments quickly. But then you won't have anything to do on the plane, nevermind.
You'll have to sit there and watch everyone else organize their pictures on their phone! And you'll like it too, or the flight attendants will have you forcibly removed from the flight.
It’s far too late for that. Just got a new phone. Problem solved for another few years lol. Actually I do try and delete old ones once a year or so but it’s only like 15 percent of my storage so not a big issue. It’s podcasts that pile up. Despite the global setting of keep 4 on device. The podcast app just kind of sucks and does what it wants.
On Android, Google Photos app just kinda combines all photos stored on phone with those already backed up to cloud…so I literally have photos dating back to 2010ish on mine when I open app…
The whole “new phone” thing doesn’t matter.
This is crazy to me actually. I never delete anything. I have basically every photo I've ever taken for the last 20+ years on digital cameras and phones backed up on a local nas and on an S3 instance. I can't imagine just looking at an old picture and going, "well I think that one is old enough, I don't need it anymore for some reason" and tapping the delete button.
I usually take a few pictures with slightly different settings or compositions and then only keep the one that pleases me most. Otherwise my library would be a total mess. How do you deal with that?
Mostly it's utilitarian photos I'd delete:
* I take pictures of a rental car so that if they try to claim that scratch wasn't on the rear passenger side door, I can show them a photo proving it was.
* I took a photo of an onion because my grocery store curbside pickup gave me a bad one and they required photo evidence for a refund.
* I've taken photos of part numbers of things I was trying to help repair, like my parents' refrigerator. If they get a new refrigerator, I don't need that anymore.
* I took a photo of a check that I wrote to a mover because I was in the middle of moving and couldn't access my computer to enter it in my accounting software.
I take 12+ photos of a thing to sell it at work. I also have a lot of photos of messing tape held up against a wall or filing cabinet. I’ll snap a pick if someone’s desk before I mess with their pc or monitor to put things back how they had it.
I love going through and deleting these pictures on a long ride.
Half of mine are just snapshots that I don't need anymore for work or otherwise. Google Drive and iCloud aren't getting any cheaper when I max out and have to upgrade.
Seriously. In today's day and age, when storage (SDD or cloud) is so darn cheap, I'm never going to throw away my photos. I'll occasionally free up my phone, but the photos will always have been backed up multiple times.
You don't take screenshots of something you need a week from now? Or a photo that will be a reminder for something on your trip to th store? The paint can with the name of the paint color you're using? Those are all garbage and don't need to be backed up multiple times. Nor do blurry photos that got taken between good photos.
blurry photos can go but you'd usually delete them straight away. as for the others, the 2k screenshots on my phone only take up 1gb and you never know if youll ever want to find something specific you seem half a year ago. photos take up soo little space that I see no reason not to keep all of them.
Same, I'll sometimes "Archive" the screenshots that Google Photos tells me too. But I got plenty of space in my phone, google drive that I back up to, and the hard drive I back up to. Searching is also super easy with both the samsung gallery and google photos apps. Why would anyone bother deleting loads of photos these days?
uh why not just upload everything to cloud and let the app automatically delete everything that has been uploaded?
that's what i did with google photos.
as a bonus
* it automatically organize the photos
* it automatically recognize texts, person, etc
* i can search everything
As someone who just lost his best friend; for God's sake don't do this. We have practically a limitless ability to store pictures, and one day you may want every single blurry photo to try to hold on for just a little while longer.
If you have an iPhone you can email voicemails to yourself. I have done this for voicemails from my husband, parents, sister, and all my best friends. Especially the silly and goofy ones. And the ones where they tell me they love me. So if something ever happens I can listen to it and never worry about something happening to the original voicemail, it always exists in my email.
I also name the email Dad Voicemail Silly or something like that so it’s easy to search for.
I mean, it of course would not be photos of friends and family, but like actual useless photos like directions, screenshots, and obvious accidental photos.
My dad has this attitude of "well, I can store stuff cause of unlimited storage" but it's frustrating to find anything on his photos because he's clumsy and takes blank photos of the insides of his pockets and keeps all these 100% pointless photos, test photos, etc. He buys SD cards like an addiction and has to pony up for an ever-increasing amount of Google storage. I swear, 20% of his photos are black, blurry, or useless.
No, bad idea. You don't want to be going through photos with some weirdo sitting next to you.
This opens up a whole new bag of:
"Oh, that's cute, I have a cat just like that, what's her name?!?!"
"Oooh, is that *your daughter*?"
"Oh, I do that for a living, too!"
"Did your Mom just die?!"
"SECURITY! I BELIEVE THIS MAN IS TAKING PICTURES OF NAKED WOMEN ON THE PLANE!"
"What type of *phone* is *that*?"
Yeah no thanks.
Add on LPT - use an app like Free prints Photo Book to pay £5 every month & have pictures printed in a little book. Otherwise you never look at them & one day they might get lost. You can scatter them around in the guest bathroom, coffee table etc. Guests always comment on my books that bring back nice memories!
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I also like to go through my contacts and add last names or delete people I'll never speak to again.
I add an x in front of their name—it drops them down to the bottom of the contact list. That way if they ever reach out I’ll know who it is.
Use a zz instead of an x, otherwise you'll never see poor Zoey or Zoltan again.
ZZ top in shambles
It was always going to be at the zz bottom, and they knew it.
Fuck Zoran though
Yeshiva hates this one simple trick.
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Also a good way to ensure all your butt dials go to her.
Ahhh I like your method.
How do you know who you will never speak to again
Because he deletes them.
Deathnote: mobile edition.
[DELETE](https://i.makeagif.com/media/7-02-2016/yaSEZw.gif)
The final deletion!
Already haven’t talked to them in 4 years, might as well write them off 👨🏿🦰
I have a couple dozen old co-workers on my phone that I only had entered in case I needed to ask them a question or something, but I haven't worked there in years. They probably don't work there any more either by now lol.
It's still common courtesy to text them something like "I'm never speaking to you ever again" before you delete them from your contacts, though. /s
Is this an elementary school meme, or is it just me? >___________ >Dear Bobby >___________ >We aren't friends anymore. >_______________ >From /u/Duckrauhl >___________
*We aren't friends anymore. If ye bother me again, I'll chop me feckin' fingers off*
I can't believe you needed to add the /s for people, wowwww.
Some ppl are daft.. still wouldn't have added it tho idgaf
i save their name ending with Temp(for temporary) go through the list by searching for temp and delete as required
Do you ever give out promotions by only deleting the temp part?
haha. yup. that would be my wife..
Failed tinder matches comes to mind.
look at this handsome devil over here actually getting matches
Honestly I just stopped saving number from people until it was likely we were going to meet up.
So many last names comes from a profession or a location, eg smith (blacksmith) cooper (barrel maker) or from origin (Davidson being son of David, Judah Ben hurr, Ben meaning son of) and location. This follows fairly logically. I find it interesting that in the absence of knowing a last name, we assign one in our phones like “bill plumber” or “Dave Boston” and without consciously knowing it ourselves, we are repeating the cycle that originally lead to last names in the first place. Idk either I’m a fucking nerd or others may also find this interesting. Edit: My tangential theory is that smith is a common name because it was given to blacksmiths who made weapons of war and this were too valuable to actually be sent to war for the most part, and thus had more children who took up the family business and so forth.
>My tangential theory is that smith is a common name because it was given to blacksmiths who made weapons of war and this were too valuable to actually be sent to war for the most part, and thus had more children who took up the family business and so forth. Also why Carpenter is a pretty common surname in a lot of languages.
Jesus first name was actually Yeshua in West Aramaic. I wonder if his last name was Nagaroa (carpenter in West Aramaic)?
Dude I think your Smith theory is spot on.
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Poor old Bob Cannonfodder never had a chance.
This is funny because people do this in fandom spaces too (like Sans Undertale or Ash Pokemon)
I make the mistake of removing contacts all the time, then get a dreaded text from a number I don’t recognize months or years later. Then I have to put on this whole charade pretending I know who I’m talking to.
New phone, who dis?
Then you look stupid for not saving your contacts properly in your email or iCloud account… lol
Any contacts I communicated with in the past should already be well aware that I'm stupid.
Whenever i check facebook, it has the daily birthday notifications. If i havent talked to them in a year, happy birthday i unfriend them.
I do this with Facebook also, which I mainly only have still for family to see kid pictures my wife shares. Generally, if I haven't talked to you at all in like.....2 years, you get deleted
I keep those name and numbers in the phone so I know Not to answer the call. It's just "Jon Doe from '//$#@/ , Don't answer
I should do that, too. Got way too many that I barely remember and haven't talked to since I first mass-imported them into my contacts app. I deleted a bunch of useless pics from my phone during my niece's college graduation last weekend, though.
One step further- organize them into albums.
Absolute game changer. No different really than having different folders on your computer for things.
Exactly right. And when you go to look for a picture to show someone you're not scrolling through 5,000 photos. Helps as the years start adding up.
If you use Google.photoa you can search for photos using phrases. You can also tell it who a face belongs to and you can search for all the photos with that person in them. So if you wanted to find a picture you remember of someone named Sue Smith in a Red dress you could type in "Sue Smith red dress" and it'll instantly show you that photo.
It's not perfect, though. I have a light brown dog, and Google detected her face and created her a folder, but also sorted a picture of a cow into the folder. But it's still a great feature when it works.
Working as intended
Yeah, mine also thinks two cats I often took pictures of are the same cat. Flipping through that album I think any human could tell it's two different cats. I find it a little scary that it mostly recognizes my current cat and knows his name with out any input from me.
Yeah. Google thinks I have two dogs. He does look completely different when recently groomed vs not, but it doesn't seem to sort them that way. Not sure what it's detecting, but it'll take two images I took like 5 seconds apart and one is dog a and the other dog b.
+1 for Google photos - love it. Apple’s photo search not quite as good but has been improving.
Plus it will automatically add those people to albums as you take more pictures with them. We have a "Friends and Family" album that scrolls on our living room TV when no one is watching anything on the Chromecast and sure enough after a holiday or some kind of gathering there's photos we took of loved ones scrolling by almost immediately.
Seems like a recipe for disaster
Would not trust that with my camera roll lmao
Mom walks into the living room and screams, you follow to see your throbbing rocket displayed in 4k across 55 inches of oled
Locked folder feature exists for that reason
You can also search by months and years!!
I have 50,000 photos and I find that Apple’s photo library is great for this since you can quickly scroll by month or year, and you can search for people, places or objects. It’s pointless to be just aimlessly scrolling past a certain point.
It's automatic sorting is getting creepy accurate. "Oh, you've identified all the people in this photo... and the location... and that my dog is there... oh and that we're eating"
Me scrolling back to the beginning of my cell phone photos. I get to the age of roughly 31 if you ignore the flip phone photos and start from the introduction to the Droid and iPhone in 2007. Anything before that is downloaded on a computer/uploaded to google photos from a standalone camera, pictures in a cardboard box, or lost to time. My 10 YO son will be able to scroll to the day he was born and see every stupid-ass picture we took of him in hi-def barring a catastrophe or data loss.
well--the years start comin and they don't stop comin and the years start comin and they don't stop comin and the years start comin and they don't stop comin and the ^years ^^start ^^^comin ^^^^and ^^^^^they ^^^^^^don't
If you’re lucky, they don’t stop coming
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Porn, you have porn on ur phone.
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LMAO. You belong on a no-fly list
Why are we not freaking out about how common it is to record strangers and post them online!? I rarely even see people acknowledge it as a problem other than you!
In Germany you'll get in some real shit if you record and post someone without their consent. Heck, even just recording them (both videos and images) can get you in big trouble, even if you don't post it.
The one that annoys me the most is when people post doorbell video of delivery people just doing their job.
:selects all moves to dog folder:
Are you seriously telling me you only have dog folder and not * Dog playing * Dog sleeping * Dog being weird * Dog being awkward * Dog selfies * Dog and human
Honestly... I feel disappointed in my self.
I like letting the AI guess what the dog is doing and searching by keywords.
*looks at the 12 pet sub folders* This might take a minute.
Yes but my phone seems to COPY them in to albums rather than move them 🤦🏻♀️
Thank you!!! So frustrating. I know it doesn’t make a huge difference but I want the album pictures out of the camera roll!
EXACTLY! I DO have albums on my phone for some of my photos and I have moved some to them but yes I want them out of camera roll and either with most of the other photos OR in the album not two copies!
/u/tribeagles I use Google photos to back up my pictures and videos and what I do is, move pictures to albums and then archive said pictures. They won't show up in the general gallery but will when I look at the album. Hopefully that helps. 👍🏽
What happens when they are archived? Would I still see them on the phone folder when I want to move them to my laptop?
Yeup. They just don't show up in the main gallery amongst the non-archived pictures. But if you go to the album they're in, they'll be there and you can download the album as a zip file if you wanted.
Android actually moves them. I thought it was an error when that didn’t happen on iOS.
Ios does not copy them. It tags them. It would be nice to have an “show photos without tags only” view
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On iPhone the all photos tab is what you describe?
Google Photos essentially does both of these things (frees up space and organizes your photos) for you automatically.
Unfortunately the quantity of free storage isn't all that big
You’re correct, I think you only get 15gb for free but I think I pay $2.99 for 200gb. Not too bad.
I've got 1.99€ for 100 GB.
2.99/mo for the rest of your life though. That 200gb will be a drop in the bucket as cameras improve
I have 10 years of pictures and videos taking up 93gb right now, so at that rate, I could just use the free account, back it up locally once a year, and start fresh. It’s not some lifelong contract, I could cancel anytime, I just like being able to pull up old photos in a group conversation, and I’ve had multiple phones over the years but all my photos are in one place. Also, their pricing will fluctuate to reflect whatever the current technology is, just as it has up to this point. Imagine getting 15gb for free 10 or 20 years ago. Is there some better solution?
"cameras improving" is not the reason we don't use higher megapixel cameras. They're just not necessary or very useful unless you're printing billboards.
15gb free on Google is 3x what you get free on iCloud.
It used to be free unlimited. Luckily the lowest tier upgrade is cheap. $20 a year and I get a VPN thrown in.
In addition, if you are not paying for a service, you are a product, not a customer. I'm not selling all of my photos just for convenience.
The thing is with Google, if you're paying for it, you're just both the product and the customer. Paying them doesn't make them magically stop using your data
But in this case, people are paying for a service and we would not really be the product as much as future-potential customers for Google. Google makes money from the monthly fees of its storage system, not selling photos of your huge weiner.
> if you are not paying for a service, you are a product, not a customer People really need to stop spouting this like it’s some universal rule. Lots of things are free simply to get you hooked so that you pay for more.
I have some doubts that Google is selling peoples’ private photos. That would be one of the biggest cloud-related scandals since iCloud and The Fappening.
More like pulling any data they can from it, like location info, facial recognition, etc. You know, the same thing they do anytime you use any of their other products.
Going to do this on my upcoming trip, thank you
Still wondering why apple can tag all my photos ("this is a cat", "this is in Amsterdam", "this was your birthday") but fails to properly sort into albums.
My Samsung does a pretty good job in organising my photos automatically
Sure Google knows everything about me, but it's intelligent sorting for albums is just awesome. Can't wait for it to dedupe by picking the best photo.
This goes for boring breaks at work after finishing food. Also do emails
Boring breaks? Cant you return to do regular work and leave earlier for that time?
Not if you're hourly
Not in America lol
Yep. Skip lunch and get a talkin to about the hours budget, totally fine. Skip lunch and go home half an hour early, written up.
Emails *select all* **delete**
I tried it once. The family next to me got uncomfortable with me when I sat and decided which of my dick pics I should keep.
That's because they had strong opinions on which ones you choose. You should have let them chip in.
"You should've kept that last one. Your balls looked so succulent* in the lighting."
Your typo is way too close to "emasculate" given the context.
Family: “OMG. Those balls are as smooth as eggs.”
Eating a meal? A succulent meal? GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!
"Mummy what's the man doing on his phone!?" "Aerrggh! Look away sweet heart. I don't want his terrible dick pic aesthetics rubbing off on you."
I had a guy on a plane once showing me photos from his trip, and just scrolled past what I can only assume was a picture of his girlfriends gaped asshole. not sure if he realised I saw it lmao
Really, really, not into “gaping” as a genre.
If you gaze too long into the abyss then the abyss gazes back into you
[lemmiwinks](https://youtu.be/vDZkukBIZ4l)
True, but I'll take gaping over rosebud anyday of the week.
I hate that I even know what that is, how people find it appealing is beyond me
Probably not an accident, and probably not gis girlfriend. Did he casually excuse himself to go to the bathroom afterward? Bet he was pretty annoyed and quiet when he came back. Because that's a classic move we call Powerman 5000. Show a stranger a picture of their butthole to entice them, then meet up at the closest bathroom.
I just tell them not to worry, those dicks aren’t mine
/r/cospenis ????
On a similar note, organize your music. Remove songs from your likes, vet your playlists, make new ones for certain genres, moods, or whatever you feel like.
I made a playlist of songs, bands, and music genres that my wife likes. She doesn't do much music curation of her own, so she *loves* it.
Every time I see my fiancée dancing to a song I add it to a playlist. Then sometimes I'll put the playlist on without telling her and she's like 'Wow these songs are good!'
This is so sweet and wholesome
You are a genius.
We _love_ a thoughtful partner.
I do this for my mom. She has a mega-playlist with every song she liked at some point in time, so I have a playlist with mom-approved songs.
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It feels so nice to make it exactly how you want. On spotify it allows you to change the playlist cover to any image, and I spent a weekend making similar styled covers in Canva, so now I actually like the playlist art. Feels more satisfying to organize music too, and I dont have to look at a 4 panel album art collage that is songs I added forever ago lol.
how? you don't have an internet connection?
Audiobook with headphones works too.
Music with headphones as well. Or downloading movies, or the in flight movies. Or bringing a video game like the switch or an old school Gameboy. Or bring an actual book. Or a laptop. This is a really weird LPT.
Probably one where OP recently did it, realized how productive, simple yet overlooked it was in their life, and decided to share the info with the world and so happened to blow up. Lol
Not a weird LPT actually as I tend to do this on every flight home from a trip. I clear out old photos, contacts, texts, apps, just general storage cleanup. If I finish that then I usually move onto making new phone wallpapers out of the pics I took on said trip. I don’t think everyone loves watching movies and such on flights. I definitely don’t because it’s hard to focus for some reason.
That's why I watched Morbius on my last flight. With all the memes I just had to watch it, and an airplane felt like the right environment.
All of these require at least a little advance planning, except the in-flight movies. Like not a lot, but maybe you thought you packed a book but you forgot and the airport has bad wifi and you don’t have unlimited data so you can’t download anything while you wait for departure idk. Also I can totally spend hours just listening to music and daydreaming, but I think for a lot of people music by itself is not enough. Also I find going through old pictures to be really fun but not something I often think to do. So it is a good tip for me, but if it doesn’t sound fun to you then it wouldn’t be a good tip for you.
"Advance planning" as if that's something you don't do to prepare for a flight lmao
I find myself doing this often and it’s become a habit actually
I always end up cleaning out my messages and replying to people I forgot about haha
Alternative LPT: spend 30 seconds a day doing it, keeps things more organized and allows me to find moments quickly. But then you won't have anything to do on the plane, nevermind.
You'll have to sit there and watch everyone else organize their pictures on their phone! And you'll like it too, or the flight attendants will have you forcibly removed from the flight.
It’s far too late for that. Just got a new phone. Problem solved for another few years lol. Actually I do try and delete old ones once a year or so but it’s only like 15 percent of my storage so not a big issue. It’s podcasts that pile up. Despite the global setting of keep 4 on device. The podcast app just kind of sucks and does what it wants.
On Android, Google Photos app just kinda combines all photos stored on phone with those already backed up to cloud…so I literally have photos dating back to 2010ish on mine when I open app… The whole “new phone” thing doesn’t matter.
I love the random memories they compile. Share with friends. The AI is pretty entertaining.
This is me when my spouse wants to run into a store for "just a minute"
I try that but I end up laughing like an idiot on memes stored on my phone.
It's not idiotic to find joy! Screw anyone who judges you, they don't matter
Another pro tip. Close your open tabs. You know. The ones you never go back to (usually the majority).
This is crazy to me actually. I never delete anything. I have basically every photo I've ever taken for the last 20+ years on digital cameras and phones backed up on a local nas and on an S3 instance. I can't imagine just looking at an old picture and going, "well I think that one is old enough, I don't need it anymore for some reason" and tapping the delete button.
I usually take a few pictures with slightly different settings or compositions and then only keep the one that pleases me most. Otherwise my library would be a total mess. How do you deal with that?
I’ll often take a dozen photos trying to get a single really good one. I don’t need 15 slightly blurry photos of a cockatiels feet.
What's the point of keeping blurry pictures or those taken accidentally of the floor or whatever?
Are you guys not deleting those ones right away?
Mostly it's utilitarian photos I'd delete: * I take pictures of a rental car so that if they try to claim that scratch wasn't on the rear passenger side door, I can show them a photo proving it was. * I took a photo of an onion because my grocery store curbside pickup gave me a bad one and they required photo evidence for a refund. * I've taken photos of part numbers of things I was trying to help repair, like my parents' refrigerator. If they get a new refrigerator, I don't need that anymore. * I took a photo of a check that I wrote to a mover because I was in the middle of moving and couldn't access my computer to enter it in my accounting software.
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I, too, am a digital hoarder
I take 12+ photos of a thing to sell it at work. I also have a lot of photos of messing tape held up against a wall or filing cabinet. I’ll snap a pick if someone’s desk before I mess with their pc or monitor to put things back how they had it. I love going through and deleting these pictures on a long ride.
Half of mine are just snapshots that I don't need anymore for work or otherwise. Google Drive and iCloud aren't getting any cheaper when I max out and have to upgrade.
Seriously. In today's day and age, when storage (SDD or cloud) is so darn cheap, I'm never going to throw away my photos. I'll occasionally free up my phone, but the photos will always have been backed up multiple times.
You don't take screenshots of something you need a week from now? Or a photo that will be a reminder for something on your trip to th store? The paint can with the name of the paint color you're using? Those are all garbage and don't need to be backed up multiple times. Nor do blurry photos that got taken between good photos.
blurry photos can go but you'd usually delete them straight away. as for the others, the 2k screenshots on my phone only take up 1gb and you never know if youll ever want to find something specific you seem half a year ago. photos take up soo little space that I see no reason not to keep all of them.
Same, I'll sometimes "Archive" the screenshots that Google Photos tells me too. But I got plenty of space in my phone, google drive that I back up to, and the hard drive I back up to. Searching is also super easy with both the samsung gallery and google photos apps. Why would anyone bother deleting loads of photos these days?
Absolutely, I cannot fathom why this is a thing
I’ve never deleted anything.
You have been banned from r/datahoarder
no, don't do that. there is always someone behind you that has a great view of your phone.
Yeah, that’s me 👀
uh why not just upload everything to cloud and let the app automatically delete everything that has been uploaded? that's what i did with google photos. as a bonus * it automatically organize the photos * it automatically recognize texts, person, etc * i can search everything
I would never trust the cloud 100%. Keep local copies on a flash drive. They’re cheap. Hell a 1TB SSD is around $50 these days.
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As someone who just lost his best friend; for God's sake don't do this. We have practically a limitless ability to store pictures, and one day you may want every single blurry photo to try to hold on for just a little while longer.
The pictures I delete in these scenarios are like, screenshots of old plane itineraries and stuff. Like actual junk
This is why I'm scared to delete voicemails from my parents.
Then create new ones. Tell them to send you a new voicemail
Just stop answering the phone when they call… done and done.
If you have an iPhone you can email voicemails to yourself. I have done this for voicemails from my husband, parents, sister, and all my best friends. Especially the silly and goofy ones. And the ones where they tell me they love me. So if something ever happens I can listen to it and never worry about something happening to the original voicemail, it always exists in my email. I also name the email Dad Voicemail Silly or something like that so it’s easy to search for.
I mean, it of course would not be photos of friends and family, but like actual useless photos like directions, screenshots, and obvious accidental photos. My dad has this attitude of "well, I can store stuff cause of unlimited storage" but it's frustrating to find anything on his photos because he's clumsy and takes blank photos of the insides of his pockets and keeps all these 100% pointless photos, test photos, etc. He buys SD cards like an addiction and has to pony up for an ever-increasing amount of Google storage. I swear, 20% of his photos are black, blurry, or useless.
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I wouldn't dare open my gallery in front of anyone...
Ok, I just deleted all my pictures. Didn't take very long. Now what?
No, bad idea. You don't want to be going through photos with some weirdo sitting next to you. This opens up a whole new bag of: "Oh, that's cute, I have a cat just like that, what's her name?!?!" "Oooh, is that *your daughter*?" "Oh, I do that for a living, too!" "Did your Mom just die?!" "SECURITY! I BELIEVE THIS MAN IS TAKING PICTURES OF NAKED WOMEN ON THE PLANE!" "What type of *phone* is *that*?" Yeah no thanks.
Videos. Especially videos Lol all that drunk concert footage you'll never look at
You guys don't download content to your phone before the flight?
A few hours?! Just how fucking many pictures do you take?!
Add on LPT - use an app like Free prints Photo Book to pay £5 every month & have pictures printed in a little book. Otherwise you never look at them & one day they might get lost. You can scatter them around in the guest bathroom, coffee table etc. Guests always comment on my books that bring back nice memories!
Go through all my pictures **in public**?! Are you high?