• black0ut@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    It’s faster than network data transfer. I don’t know exactly how fast can WiFi go, but most if the time it can’t even exceed 1Gbps. However, USB-C 4 V2 can reach 80 Gbps, and isn’t all that affected by electromagnetic interference.

    For transfering a few photos, you won’t notice a difference. But if you need to back up a 256 GB phone, the difference in speed is actually big.

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      10 months ago

      I guess so, I don’t see much reason why I’d need to back up my whole phone in this day and age though, photos documents and notes are all backed up through syncthing/Google photos and that runs in the background constantly so not like I’m waiting

      Contacts, installed apps and I believe some settings are backed up to my Google account and will follow me without even thinking about it

      I guess game save data but personally I don’t play games on my phone anymore anyway so that’s not a big deal for me

      Could quite happily wipe my phone tomorrow and be back up and running with all my data within 30 mins max and have never needed to plug it in