On Wednesday 23 April 2025 16:53:34 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > On 4/23/25 6:38 PM, E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > > Some microSD cards come with a free adapter that bumps them > > up to full-sized SD—it's common enough that I have several spares. > > I also have an SD->USB adapter that cost about $10CAD several > > years ago and takes both micro and full-sized cards. > > > > I don't know whether this is worth even that much of an outlay > > to you, though. > > Thanks. I'll keep my eyes open for an adapter. Some months ago I picked > up a couple of USBA-USBC adapters. Always nice to have silly gadgets > like that. :) I crawl out from under my rock, run off to the farmers market and library for a few hours, and come back to find 20+ emails (all from the TDE mailing list), most of them about this same question. One more reply here will be like a drop in the ocean. Now, I no longer use a dumbphone, flip phone, and nowadays live in a place that is saturated with far too much technology and connectivity. I yearn for simpler times and places, my Amish neighbors from 50 years ago, or a nice anarcho-primitivist neo-Luddite commune ... that kind of thing. Likewise, I don't use my phone much, except as a phone, a few times per month, and to send text messages, mostly to one other human being. I do, however, use it as a camera sometimes, or want to transfer other types of files from the DCIM folder in my phone's internal storage, or from my SD card. I don't like taking out the SD card just to transfer files, because it means shutting down my phone, and when I restart I lose some of the developers options that I've enabled, and I am forced to reset them manually. This may not apply to your situation, as my smartphone is a little different from a dumbphone. I do have a couple of old dumphones buried away; but the same basic trick worked with them, and I simply kept on using it with smartphones. I connect a USB dongle to my phone; for my current smartphone (Samsung Galaxy), I have a USB dongle with USB-C connector, same as my phone charger, so no problem connecting it. Then I plug in a flash drive, transfer my photos or whatever other files to the flash drive. Then I unmount the flash drive, plug it into my laptop, transfer to my laptop. As I said, I used to do the same thing with my dumphones, except that the USB dongles had different connectors. As an comparatively old dog myself, I do understand that you want to keep doing things your own way, because it's what you're used to, you're comfortable with that. But this way, in my opinion, is just a lot simpler and easier. Regarding the related question, about which other DEs are "compatible" with TDE, I would return to that matter of the more "minimalist" desktops. The bigger desktops with lots of eye-candy and flashy features tend to clutter up my system with garbage and cruft. Those few desktops that are the least trouble are, in my opinion, and in this order: 1 XFCE (comes as the default DE on my Devuan installation images) 2 MATE (so-so) 3 LXDE (the lightdm stuff); I've seen a couple of variants of this, too. Otherwise, practically all other desktops manage to leave too much garbage that needs to be cleaned up. KDE4/5 krap and the Gnomish stuff are the worst; however, some Gnome packages are necessary, I guess, to make other stuff work. I've managed to strip out everything that isn't necessary, and eventually I may figure out a way to install TDE without ever having another desktop installed, with only Devuan packages, and using only GNU/Linux free/libre packages. But I am not quite there yet, and have other things to occupy my time besides wrestling with my machines and devices. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
