The break-up moment (almost)

I was battling with the problem of icloud being full, and not having a clear path on moving forward without upgrading my icloud plan.

With the iphone and icloud storege being full it bought with if plethora of problems.

I couldn’t open apps, even if I could the settings got reset. The final nail in the coffin was when I couldn’t use my phone to gain access into my Tesla or pick calls that I was receiving.

This episode made me rethink my decision of being in the Apple eco-system.

Knee-jerk moment

Ready to denounce my relationship with Apple ecosystems, I revived my Thinkpad X1E and installed Archlinux+Gnome - Gnome for the win! [^1] [^1]: More on it in a different post.

With the release of Galaxy Fold 7 it was tempting to ditch the iphone, the promise of foldables had been luring me for a while.

Was this the moment I was going back to Linux again? I almost thought I would but some greater kept me from making that leap.

The Apple Way of transferring photos

Apple is great as long as things are done the Apple way. As easy as that might sometimes be, the Apple way isn’t the straightforward way - atleast not to a power user.

In the Android world, connecting the Android device would show up as external device and a simple copy/cut-paste of the images folder would to an external harddisk or to laptop’s disk would move the files and reclaim my storage back.

But Apple had to add a twist of its own and make this simple process complicated - Image Capture app.

It wasn’t without Google that I was able to figure out that this is the path I needed to take to back up my images from my iPhone/icloud to my external drive.

Edit: You could also export using the Photos.app.

Sanity restored

One thing this episode has helped fortify is - to think through things calmly and in a rational manner. Also to not be biased, I say that because all this was me trying to find a reason to blame Apple and jump ship back to Linux. But in hindsight as I type this post, Apple had the solutions just that it was the “Apple way” solution.

And as much as I thought I had growth mindset, this episode taught me that partially the reason for why I found this “Apple way” convoluted was because I was used to my own ways which akin to closed mindset.

Through the lens

A little too much of post processing and this ended being my homescreen wallpaper.