Is ThePhotoStick a Scam? (Nope! But…) - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk
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Wait how Is this 14h ago?!?!
How the hell do you pin this stupid comment 14 hours ago
Stop it
could you make a compilation of like the worst scams that you've done? that would be cool
You have to get an old LG or Samsung and try it on android
@@_lun4r_ nobody asked you
Ken, the backup took longer than 113 minutes to complete as it started on Friday and finished on a Monday
I made a comment about that but you beat me. Poof.
The horses name was Friday
HOLY SH-
Let's not assume it's a scam it might be a shit pc/mac
@@officialtripleb2013 486DX2 TURBO with 120mb HDD?
For data protection, remember the "3-2-1" guideline: Keep _three_ copies of your files in _two_ separate storage formats, with at least _one_ copy at an offsite location.
I would add one more thing about which I've heard a few moths ago for the first time: Parity Archive
The program called MultiPar uses this technology, this way you can restore your files if they're partially or completely (it depends on the size of the .par2 files) corrupted.
Minor correction.
The "2" isn't different locations, it's different media types.
For example, if the first backup is HDD(spinning rust), the second should be either Solid state(ssd, thumb drive, or card), optical(cd/dvd), or tape.
The reason is because of differences in degradation rates(aka 'bit rot').
i follow the 0-0-1 rule, one on hard drive
@@TylerTMG that's point 3. 3 copies, on at least 2 different storage types, at least one of which is off-site (different locations).
@@chrisbaker8533 I appreciate the correction. I edited the comment.
It’s a great day when Ken uploads another scam episode
: )
@@ComputerClan is that a threat or smth •~•
Yeah
His name isn't Ken it's Daddy Ken
@@ComputerClan why is the face creepy it's like the one you sent to me before you kidnapped me and put me in the attic
Most cloud services don't guarantee that your data wont get lost and also have a paragraph saying they can revoke access at any time without stating a reason. Some of the services even scan your files. Don't just rely on cloud backups if you have something important. If it's too convenient, there is probably a catch.
remember the case of pediatrician using google photos to communicate with patients parents, and after google scanned pics, determined that medical pics are some pedo shit?
One thing I'd also recommend is if possible to Seperate encryption and storage providers. That way providers can't scan your data
@Comrade Rachel Also use a cloud service that offers end to end encryption or you can add your own password for the encryption
That's why I have two backups. One physical, one cloud. The odds of both failing are slim to none.
@@sebastian05000 I'd rather use an independent crypto, as the cloud provider could easily backdoor itself (or be forced to)
I'd...argue both. I've had some bad glitches with cloud services where a file vanished out of nowhere and made me lose a lot of work on a document. Always do both. In the world of backup it is not a question of cloud or physical, do both. In many realms of IT the notion of using ONLY cloud for backup would be mocked.
Cloud is physical.
@@AR15andGOD No it is not. It is off site. Out of your control. Run by someone else. When the It world says physical, i means something you can touch or hold in your hand. It means on site. It means something you control.
The most secure your data can ever be is when it is in your hands and under your control. Cloud is not that good.
@@AR15andGOD The terms, “cloud,” and, “physical” are parlance, not literal. Don’t be a pedant.
Sixty bucks for 32 gig of USB 2 storage? They're having a laugh!
Six months ago I bought a 256 gig USB 3 flash drive for £18 ($23), and backup software can be had for free.
True, but like most of these things, it's marketed at the people who don't know or couldn't do that themselves. I regularly backup on multiple devices and it costs me zero, but the little old lady down the road wouldn't have a clue.
Yeah, even Ken's justification for the price was off. Who the hell spends $40 on backup software for a few photos? Just copy manually or get something for free.
@@FlyboyHelosimFamilies shared their home computers and multiple family members may have their own folders
Older folks may haphazardly put a bunch of them everywhere inside the computer
Some Businesses also have separate filings for something... They may have currently used files and those that are archived for example and put them separately... Or there are multiple archives, projects and plans.
A backup software that are able to aggregate all of the files you only want to backup and not everything else would be a work and time savers.
We may treat that kind of work as inconsequential... But not for, idk, a father who has not only a job to care for, but also his family... or an multimedia firm who has extensive media library on their hands
There's a market for that convenience, and people would pay for it
I suspect that USB stick is somehow corrupting the file table when you unplug the stick. It *might* be open while the app is running so when you unplug it gets corrupted. I'm slightly handwaving here but I suspect it's something like that.
That makes the most sense. It probably needs to be unmounted to be safe. I know I have to unmount any SD cards I use in my phone.
@@ZipplyZane Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. There should be a warning in the app to that effect and a very big "unmount now!" button to make it clear.
Don't forget cloud based storage could be hacked as well. If you remember a few years ago, many celebrities iCloud storage was hacked and many pictures got leaked.
Not to mention _incompetence._ Windows Update was responsible for *terabytes* of deleted data throough OneDrive..
My vps on ovh literally burned down and lost everything.
There are data share / privacy concerns. Why not just set a nas server for yourself, I gusT If yOu nOt tecH-SaVvY AnD JuSt wanT A SiMpLe sOlUtIoN YoU CoUlD UsE SoMeOnE ElSe sErVeR If wAnT.
I honestly don’t use cloud for anything… I always back up my items with physical devices
except for that in the end it turned out the celebs just fell for phishing and the bad guys just logged in with their password so... yeah :P
Rhonda: I was able to finally find those photographs, but the feelings that I had was horrible.
Me: What were these photographs? Porn? Gore? Falling out with someone? Death?
Each photo covers all of those tags individually. Rhonda is a quirky gal ready to have some fun!
how is falling out with somone comparable to DEATH and GORE??
Nude pictures of Janet Reno?
mental health. Some people also ain't as woke as you to be afraid of death.@@godzilla995
My biggest issue with this product (I did buy one) is that the drive they use is USB 2….. Which is fine until you have to backup more than a couple of gigabytes of data.
Literally #blameApple for this. Lightning is USB 2. If their converter was packaged with a faster device it wouldn't even work all that well, so suppporting Lightning means 2.0 is the _max_ its host controller can handle ideally.
Does the app back up everything all over again, or does it back up only the new photos that aren't already on the drive, like rsync? If it's the latter, you'd probably face the problem of slow backups not that often
@@xEqualsRandom It does incremental backups, which is fine. Problem is my camera is a Nikon D800, which takes 100MB+ photos (1 gigabyte per every 10-12 photos.)
@@bluephreakr USB 3.x devices can easily 'downgrade' to 2.0, that's literally the whole point of USB...
There's no reason a stick made to backup data, being sold in 2023, can be USB 2.0 unless it's basically a scam/trash product.
A $0.75 USB stick with bug-filled and no longer maintained software for $60, what a joke.
@@someguy4915 I get that but also a quality stick can _still_ have scam software on it. There's zero point for a device to be better than USB 2.x speeeds _if using Lightning._ Lightning isn't a 3.x interface.
I'm fairly sure there's some regular ole USB drives that come with photo back up software in them already. I got one from one of the normal name brand UBS drive providers (Sandisc for this one specific) that has two ports, one regular square computer-end USB and one USB C shaped. The idea was one end was for your phone, the other for your computer so you could easily transfer files between them. Got it I think 2 or 3 years ago for I think like... $15-$20 bucks and it's worked just fine. The software is on the stick directly so you don't need to bother with the app store. It's android instead of iOS which likely makes it run a bit smoother.
Basically, this is a product that already has existed in a better, more stable form for a while.
I have a nas that has photobackup software available. It automatically backs up to my NAS and from there I can back it up to the places that I use for backups.
I just bought a 2TB external drive for $60 that came with free backup software. There is no reason to buy this piece of junk.
10:32: "For Gits and Shiggles"
HA, love those types of anagrams. That one is defiantly up there with Fuster Cluck and I look forward to using it one day.
Yeah, Gits and Shiggles is one of my favourites 😁. It's actually a 'Spoonerism', named after a Mr. Spooner who often got the first syllables of mords wixed up... (see what I did there? lol). 😂
William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 - 29 August 1930) was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.
That stick looks exactly like those free flash drives they give out at convention sign in... I had two dated back to 2017, one had failed.
I love your channel because some of these scams I could’ve fallen for without you 😅
Thanks
My pleasure : )
New to your channel. Most backup experts recommend 3-2-1 Backup Strategy. Three copies of data, original plus two backups. Two physical backups over different media. One backup must copy be remote.
1. time machine will work with any hard drive so no need for the $300 apple time capsule a 2tb seagate usb drive from staples for $79 will work.
2. most macs since i think osx 10.4 supports time machine.
11:40 Although I can't 100% be sure this is the issue; one of the feature updates to Windows 10 introduced a change to USB mass storage: Safe Removal Mode. AFAIK, this is now the default, but speeds are slower, and as it is tracking open/modified files in real time, that could explain the variations.
If you go into the device's properties > Policies tab, you can change this to Better Performace mode, which, as stated, will result in faster transfers and more consistency when you have a lot of small files. This was how Windows used to operate, back when you HAD to use the Safely Remove Hardware option to eject, and the drive bloody took forever to eject.
Or it just won't eject saying that it's in use. If only could the operating system itself tell me what is using the drive, that would be perfect
@@flizzycatthe file transfers. Turning it on "better performance mode" doesn't make it go faster, it just tells you it's going faster, pretends the transfer completed, and then silently ACTUALLY transfers it in the background. That's why it takes so long to eject, the data isn't even all on the drive yet.
I just know this could be hilarious. Keep it up Ken, you’re really in for some more scam stuff.
16:45 Don't use "the Cloud" for your Private Data. There are many Storys where either someones account got hacked and their data was published/sold or the company's lock your account because of some guideline violation.
A Backup as an encrypted drive (SSD or HDD) would be better
Three copies on two different types of media, at least one off site. You can always encrypt locally before uploading. I like to just use GPG to encrypt everything and push it to S3 for simplicity, but there are lots of programs that can do local encryption and delta transfers if you need that. I have very little data I care about, which makes it cheap and easy either way.
There are providers that specialize in backup, or have a specialist backup and archiving part too (backblaze, AWS Glacier). These tend to be cheap to store on, but much more expensive to restore from, but maybe with local encryption they are a good solution for needs.
Yea buy a damn portable ssd. And a thumbstick for passwords.
My ex got her pc hacked and her pics where used to blackmail her.... her whole pc bricked. And phone an apple was locked out.
Dodged a bullet there.
Well, iCloud Photos is technically not a backup service, it's a synchronisation service. You have the iCloud Photo Library, and every device connected to it, has the same photos on it. So if you delete it on one device, it's gone on all other devices too. So, backup your iCloud Photos, Google Photos (via takeout) or whatever sync service you use, because they are NOT A BACKUP.
You can't restore a deleted file or folder? I don't use iCloud. I just use some offline HDDs.
Should be careful wording around your sponser. “Oh I see the problem: sponsored by Linode. 😂
😂 that’s what I was thinking the same exact thing
Love your keen eye and investigative style! Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
Ken,
I’m happy to have found your channel. I wondered about the Photo Stick being able to back up photos on my iPhone. Since I don’t believe online ads, I never bought one. Glad I didn’t.
Thank you for saving the ‘low tech’ group.
Besides being accurate, you do it without rambling on and on. Looking forward to every episode.
I need to watch more of your videos. Even if I’m not interested in the product there is something about your thorough, balanced analysis that makes me feel more at ease with the world. Maybe not all is lost.
The senior citizen wig and glasses crack me up every time, great videos.
New sub here, @ 15:00 you talk about random deletion, this right here is why I hate USB drives, I have lost so much data from seemingly random deletions like this, but I found it was a common corruption problem from the "plug n play" connection... really made me realize how pointless important/long term USB backup is, this after thinking no more DVD rot... now I'm just used to losing most of my pics, vids and data except for what I have on cloud storage...
I'm glad I found your channel, I always try to give tech guys a chance, and you were spot on every point, no BS. I appreciate your honesty, which kept me from unsubscribing when you said AI . I look forward to checking out your other videos. Side note: it's amazing how different the YT algorithm is between FF and Chrome...
I can't sign on with the cloud backup solution for pictures. At least not if you have pictures that you don't want other people to see.
Cloud backup is pretty decent if your primary concern is being able to recover the files if your house burns down. If your primary concern is privacy, you want a local backup only. The quality and security of any encryption tech is only as good as the IT management at the cloud company, and that's not even counting the certainty that some IT folks will be snooping through your photos just for kicks.
Exactly like the widget I bought to take a camera SD card so they could be copied to an iPhone - it worked, but it then blanked the SD card. Bye bye holiday photos! 🤬
For 20 years + I’ve backed up to a physical drive plus a second drive that I keep at a relative’s house in case of fire/burglar. With Time Machine it’s all automatic so no worries. Just need to bring the outside drive home once in a while to keep it up to date. I prefer that over paying for cloud data (I have way more than 50gb) and with Time Machine I can literally restore my computer back instead of just copying files back.
I do about the same with 2 4TB external USB 3.0 HDD's except I keep one at work locked in my file cabinet where only I, my wife, and a trusted relative have the keys to get to it, if something happens to me, or my wife. I also have a fire/water proof safe in my home office where I keep 2 password locked rugged USB keys for all the stuff I want stored offline I don't trust on the hard drives that get moved around like me, and my wife's wills, account passwords, and other documents that only we, and a trusted relative have the keys too, but for stuff like normal photos I also let Google back them up for us as a 3rd offsite copy that's easy for my wife to access when she wants to share photos of say my great nephew, or our grandkid.
Really liked the review and I was never planning on getting thephotostick. I just happened to be watching your video and you held my interest for 18:33 minutes and that in itself is amazing.
Been waiting for this one for over a week & a half! LOVE THIS CHANNEL!
The inconsistent performance is almost certainly because cheap flash drives have a tiny SLC cache. Once the cache is filled, the drive will freeze for a few ms at a time while it rewrites data.
Thanks for the info, I had a customer that was interested in this and I had not heard of it so had to do my own research. Also you part about disclosing affiliate links confuses me a bit because Amazon turned off my affiliate program saying I am not allowed to disclose my links as affiliate links. I was like umm I thought you had to do that but what ever. I no longer have the amazon links on my videos.
Ken, that syncing with his lips when you are repeating what he says - was impeccable - chefs kiss. Lmao.
Also, pixel peeper 😂
Excellent video as always.
Thank you Ken - Very useful and thorough information!
BTW.. the pitch video in the top corner.. absolutely sides splittingly hilarious...😂😂😂
Wow Ken, very informative, thankbyou very much! You've got a new subscriber! 😊👍🏽
When you said _„We need to dissect this thing“_ (0:44) I was really looking forward to seeing a physical teardown toward the end - Partly because I recognise this (Highly generic) model of flash drive, and let's just say that it's design is very much focussed on low price versus high quality! 😉
*Spoiler alert* 👇
I had one of these drives a while ago (A 128MB promo item from a builders merchant) and when removing the USB cap the silver collar behind it came off too. After removing the collar at the other end I quickly found myself holding a very cheap 'n' nasty plastic shell containing a bit of metal formed into the shape of a USB-A connector (Hot-glued to the shell) with a single chip flash drive nestled inside it. There wasn't even a status LED, even though the shell design makes you expect one! 🤣
tl,dr: For $60,- you got some resined sillycon in a cheap plastic shell that's almost certainly not an archive-grade product. I guess we already know this...But I suppose for those seeking a „Fuss free“ solution buying the 32GB model (To obtain a legit user licence) then transferring the software over to a higher quality model of flash drive (Preferably one with USB 3,0+) is always something worth considering. 😇
Excellent video mate and an excellent source to fuel my procrastination of my college studies 🤛🤛🤛
3:05 Right... 😂👍💯
This video is So detailed, it's Scary.
Love your scam deep dives, one thought though, a teamgroup 128GB flashdrive is easily sub $15 and is way better quality
Great video, love the part about windows, they say back up in minutes , but not how many minutes . I have one of the OMNI flash stick, and not sure if I should use it now.👍👍👍👍
(6:08) That reminded me of when a TH-cam channel I was subscribed to was hacked and the hackers used it for piracy, but they left the original videos on it so I could identify what channel it was.
(5:29) I remember when my parents would ask me to fact check scam websites they end up getting advertised to them and those things are immediate telltale signs to me.
(3:41) Also that 3 days passed, so it's more like 4433 minutes than just 113 minutes compared to the claimed 'up to 20 minutes'.
(7:05) That reminded me of a similar company that was advertised to me some years ago, which had a tagline along the lines of 'make your videos go viral', but I couldn't clearly see what their marketing output looked like. I feel a similar way about smaller advertising platforms where advertisers wouldn't realise where their adverts would shop up.
(3:19) (8:14) That reminded me of when I ended up on a fake news website made to promote what looked to me like some sort of MLM scam. I knew something was off because all of the links led to the same 'sign up' page, and there was an embedded TH-cam video on the website that was titled along the lines of 'news5reports' and was an unlisted video uploaded to some random YT channel, aligning with the fake news website being called 'News Channel 5' if I recall correctly. The fake website itself was modelled after a real US regional news channel's website that I think was an NBC or ABC affiliate, that also reminded me of a scam 'No Text to Speech' recently covered that involves the scammers, posing as legitimate game developers, asking to check their Robloc account password reset link on a website called 'TrustSentry' which forwarded the link to a Discord webhook, but not all links were changed on that fake website, revealing that it had its design and logo stolen from a legitimate website called 'URLVoid'.😅
I am so glad you did a video on this! I really wanted to buy this but didn’t know if it was a scam or not. Greatly appreciated.
Dang, I thought it would work better on an iPad which is what I was planning on using it for… oof
Funny story I bought one off of Amazon 126 gig $79 I had it a hour and found out to use on any of my projects or IPads I had to remove the case so I requested a return. Within ten minutes Inrecieved a email saying keep it and they did exactly that and I had my money back in less then 24 hours. That’s why I was able to play with it and found out it was worth what I paid for it.
always a great day when ken uploads
Thanks 😇
The explanation around 13:00 was really smart tbh. Not alot of people understand that part and overlook that with security
Don't forget. There's always a *however* to everything.
there always is... always....
Ken as ever your the main man for everything that is electronic.keep them coming .
I think Pitch Video Ken should join the Computer Clan cast
I first saw the advantages of cloud backup demonstrated years ago.
My iPhone was having problems, and I took it to an Apple Store for repair. They repaired it, but blanked it as part of the process, after warning me. I walked out of the store, with my working, but blank phone. It was about a mile to the train station I needed to get to, but I had time, so I walked, and started the process of setting the phone up again, Thanks to the fact I had everything backed up in iCloud, I had a mostly working phone by the time o got back on the train. I just needed to leave it connected to WiFi to ensure all the apps were installed.
Not great, not terrible. Horribly expensive for what it is. I have a "PhotoFast iFlash" 32 GB stick that has USB-A on one end and Lightning on the other. I think it cost me $30 multiple years ago. And it is actually a USB 3 device that gets 19 MB/s write, 95 MB/s read.
😂😂😂 Great stuff as always, especially when old Ken and Martha are in for the fun too
Hey... Simple way to copy Large number of files such as pictures in windows. (Idk apple commands)
1. Go to Picture file location
2. Click First image
3. cntrl+shift+end key
4. right click and select copy
5. select destination you want files to be copies to.
The irony is for someone like me whos not all that tech savvy, and have old phones i keep around just for the pics and videos on them a product like this if it worked would be kinda cool
Your comment is from 8 months ago. Did you get the pictures off of your old phones?
@@Susan70003 funny u ask. Yes as I just went through them and uploaded everything to a one drive account
@@Susan70003 did u have an alt suggestion? Kinda older now and still like hard copies of important pics and videos
@@mrmouse-ol9pw I thought you bought an Omni? No? I am looking for something that works so I can pull pictures off of my old cell phones too.
Love the new intro and outro music!
Good entertainment, love the skeptic approach so much. I am the backup (hardly ever need to restore) person in the company. The only time when I start sweating is when the backups fail, yes that happens. But a stick, that can be lost, and putting it in a computer without checking it for spyware. Come on, Ken, get with the program (just kidding... maybe?). The reason for the pictures disappearing from the stick using the iPhone is that the app most likely is not closing the file system properly. I betcha that, if you took the drive out, closed the app, the files would be gone. But if you closed the app with the stick still attached... they theoretically should still be there. Theoretically!!
In terms of pricing, its even worse when you realise amazon provides unlimited cloud photo storage as part of amazon prime...
18:28 Finaly, now we know who is martha.
I will admit, and i know you can get them elsewhere, but that converter is pretty dope, and here is an interesting question; does this software work with ANY USB Drive, or is it limited to the Photostick drive only?
I haven't tried installing the software on another drive (yet).
@@ComputerClan If you do, dont forget ubuntu / linux, cheers.
New scam video hype! I always love when these come out, and I'm glad you're making more of these
So many references between Hannah Montana and that last one really got me.
16:16 I don’t recommend cloud data backup, as breaches have happened in company and out. Thankfully, 3-2-1 solves the problem you mentioned. 3 data copies, spread across 2 formats, at least one of which is off-site.
I recall that you were supposed to close external drives before removing them, because Windows would act like it was done copying, but continue in the background, unless you forced it to finish. Is it possible that the older iPhone was doing something similar? Maybe it had copied everything, but hadn't set the file names yet?
Nice intro music! Great content as always!
Thank you : )
OMG, that's the same crappy thumb drive I got at a trade show with a vendors name printed on it.
The loop end keeps falling off when used with the matching lanyard.
for a while we were seeing adverts for the photostick that showed it had a sml built-in screen that displayed thumbnails of the saved files!
Thank you Ken. Great video as always.
I’m glad I saw your video before ordering this. I don’t think I would trust that gadget, and I think I would probably try one of the clouds.
18:31 MARTHA!! gets me every time
Oh jeez, I recognize those flash drives. They're the cheapest of the cheap. The place I used to work had more than a cubic foot-sized bin of them full to the brim for probably like 40 bucks for the lot of them. They failed at the drop of a hat, either due to flash failure or the flimsy connector breaking off the board with the slightest bump while it's plugged in. They had some capacity, but they were kind of pathetic.
5:53 "memorable songs"
6:07 "A nostalgic place filled with the best romantic songs. You are in the right place let's go back in time and remember them"
Pixel Peeper 3000 killed it. I hope there’s a promotional video of it somewhere. I couldn’t find one. Yet.
I've literally never had the problem with backing up photos... or anything for that matter... where I miss anything. For important files and folders I always cross-reference folder properties between the original source and the backup target.
amazing content and quality, nice... I think that software will work with any stick including USB 3, after an image clone.
Love the videos buddy 😊
I get unreasonably excited for these
iCloud is not that secure. Better services with TBs of data and lifetime options exist. Great video. I love how thoroughly you broke the scam.
Nice to coming home seeing a new video, Thanks!
You know what is sad? I actually used that old music channel to find some old songs that I had forgotten the name of some years ago (I recognized the account avatar); they did upload some good old Brazilian songs.
Don't know if they sold it, got hacked or decided to exploit the large subscribe base for some easy cash.
15:21 not the “Pitch Video Ken” username 😂
I agree. I also have a AIO G3 in Chicago that needs a home.. It was last working, but is now in storage, and I don't have time, space, or resources to start its up. I'm 80% sure its fully working. I just want it to go to a better place.. I'm not asking for more than its worth. Just $50, snd it's yours,, pickup in Bridgeport Chicago.
before it gets destroyed. if ya pick it up, ill show ya my 512KE and accessories, SE, SE FDHD, SE Superdrive, SE/30, and of corse the AIO... I also have the original Apple bag for the 512KE, and a couple other bags for the compact macintoshes... get a hold of me , before these get destroyed.....
Thanks for the education!
For PC cloud backups, I recommend Backblaze. It backs up everything important, no storage limits, $7/month. I use Samsung Smart Switch to back up my phone every few weeks to my PC, Backblaze holds on to that too. Couldn't be easier.
I am running my own cloud at home, WDhome 4tb. Automatic backup from all family members phones to the same drive. But you are right. If something happens everything is gone xD
I use iPhones to record my YT videos, and while I do have the Cloud service, I can't use it to transfer my 4K video files, because it reformats them into much lower resolution files.
Transferring the video files directly to my PC is a nightmare, because Apple and PC just don't play nice at all, and I end up not being able to transfer many files.
My solution to this, was to get the Sandisk iXpand drive about 2 years ago, and it's worked flawlessly ever since.
Me and my wife love your videos Krazy ken! You always have great information for us and we can't wait until you post your next video! So god bless 🙏🙏 and see you on the next one!
Print media solved this problem long ago ... you will notice content that may appear as a news story, etc. ... will have a banner at top that reads "Advertisement" if it is actually marketing content. TH-cam should adopt same approach for all posted videos. If they can pull content just for playing 11 seconds of a music track, they can do this :)
i'd assume that brazilian account was hacked, because canções marcantes means "outstanding songs", which wouldnt make sense for a tech ads channel
at work we bought hundreds of those white usb sticks, same exact once just a different logo. man they are crap !!! they could work one day and stop the other. We ended up taking them a part and using them for their red leds. surprisingly those are very bright outside the case !!
What about on andriod, will the photostick work to backup photos/videos without deleting them once removed? Also as phone and security change will the photostick continue to work with newer versions?
Especially with backup solutions, go with a reputable manufacturer for storage media. Yes, these are likely a bit more expensive, but at least the chance of your data randomly taking a swim in /dev/null is much lower.
I ordered 1, then they said if I order another one, it will be reduced price, then it said I could get a 3rd one it's half price. So I end up ordering 3. Then I got an e-mail saying my order was cancelled. Then I got an e-mail saying thanks for being customer and my order is being worked on. Nope, it's not if you cancelled. I've gotten this before when buying something only to find out it is a scam.
Top work as usual. 👍
Cloud = Someone elses computer.
-> nothing important I have will ever go there!
"oh, I see the problem. Sponsored by linode" is the funniest unintentional line I've heard in a while.
Always fun to watch.
Thank you 😇
I have ordered one of these, as a Christmas present AND believe I am receiving one as well. I have two questions: (1) if I plug it into my Android phone, it moves over 100 photos, I never delete the photos off my mobile and take 50 NEW photos then plug the stick back in... does it only back up the new photos, OR do I end up with duplicates on the stick? (2) once the photos are on the stick, can I plug the stick into a PC, like I would a thumb drive, and move the photos OFF of the stick and on to new locations? Thank you!
I think I worked with Mark Oman at HP back in the 90s. I seem to remember he was in finance and a division controller. Sorry to see the BBB site rating. He was a good guy and competent at his job.
Canções marcantes is a Brazilian very famous music channel with a lot of rare and Brazilian music from early 70s, 80s and 90s. It's very sad they got hacked
Cloud backup is a terrible idea. What people don't realise its that you're storing your stuff on someone else's computer. That computer obviously belongs to the operator running your backup service, but your data is no longer yours, IT'S THERE'S. If they want to delete it, tomorrow, they can do and you've got ZERO recourse. If they want to add files to your data for advertising purposes, they can do, if they want to delete certain files, they can do, if they want to browse your files, they can do. You've chosen to store your files there, you've given your data freely away and they are now in control of that data. You may think cloud storage is free or cheap, but someone has to pay for that storage, so they recoup that money and use your data for targeted advertising. Nor should you be deluded into thinking your data is secure either. So long as a beach doesn't affect their reputation or bottom line, they don't care about you or your data because you're just costing them money in terms of storage.
This isn't cynicism, just the harsh reality.