that said, Fairphones habe a micro SD card slot which you can use for such things

Yes, and I'd prefer to not have to take it out all the time. Especially since taking out the SD card means also taking out the SIM card.

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Grombobulous a day ago | parent [-]

Is wireless connectivity a barrier there? My home WiFi goes about twice as fast as USB 2.0.

My photos (I use Ente, not Google or Apple) sync in the background on WiFi, primarily while I sleep. It’s my understanding that Immich works the same way.

For music syncing I’d probably set up Syncthing-Fork and then never manually transfer again.

When I transfer ROMs to my Android gaming handheld I just use my local NAS and connect with CX File Manager. My handheld has USB 3.0 but I don’t find that plugging in a cable is particularly convenient, especially since the NAS box is in my closet.

My iPhone 17 Pro Max has very fast USB-C but I’ve never used it for anything besides charging. I’m sure professional content creation folks know of a workflow where fast USB is helpful but for my smartphone user I can’t think of a reason to use it.

	▲	Telaneo a day ago \| parent [-]
		The app I use to sync, Musicbee, doesn't work on Linux, so I have to use Wine, which for stupid reasons prevents me from syncing wirelessly. Just syncing the files isn't the problem. Syncing the metadata (number of times a song has been played, favourites) is the problem, and just dragging-and-dropping the the files onto my phone doesn't solve for this. If I could do it wirelessly, I would, but I've never found it to be reliable in the first place the few times I've used it before (times may have changed).

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microtonal a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Having to remove your SIM card (since it uses the same tray) and potentially switch off your phone to transfer files at a decent speed is meh.