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Oh boy. I was thinking USB 2.0 is main reason for Android<>Windows copying of photos to suck so much, but the rabbit hole is much deeper.

It's sad that with cloud being the solution for everything those days, this will probably never be improved within next decade.

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It's ridiculously wasteful and slow to have to upload to a cloud server who-knows-where, then download it again to the computer several feet away. Yet with Android having removed USB mass storage, that's often the easiest way. It's against the interests of those who profit off selling cloud storage to make local transfers easy.

If I need to move a lot of data I just use adb and USB debugging to access the files. That is actually fast, but it's ridiculous that I have to do it.

Ha, I like that! I should try that as well.

I'm using Resilio's Sync (before known as BitTorrent) for this. I guess that technically, it's a kind of cloud, except I'm running it on my intranet ?

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