• djdarren@piefed.social
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    11 hours ago

    I jumped from iOS to Android last year, and wasn’t interested on spending much, so plumped for a 128gb Pixel 9 to replace the 128gb 13 mini I had. I never ran out of room on the iPhone, so figured I was golden.

    What I failed to account for is just how much more you can do with an Android handset. And it turns out you need quite a lot more space for those activities.

    So yeah, I don’t keep running out as such, but with hindsight I’d have gone for the next option up.

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      11 hours ago

      Interesting. I’ve had my phone for over 2 years now and I’m only up to 91 GB used. There’s multiple offline maps in there, a separate Linux install, over a hundred apps, some cached music and lots of photos and video, but I still wouldn’t know how to fill it up further.

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        6 hours ago

        I’m a keen user of SyncThing, so there’s 20GB of my storage.

        I’ve finally gotten around to setting up a Nextcloud server, so I should probably start using that for storing documents I need access to, which will free up a good chunk of space.

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        10 hours ago

        The big one for using storage space is 4K video and various video enhancements like ML based Slow Motion (5 min of footage can take 7-8 GB easily).

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          9 hours ago

          Ah, right. I can see how that would lead to much more usage. Any serious videographer probably has a vastly different storage usage than the average phone user does, with plenty of external storage too.