What happens with any size within reason is your priorities change or oversight gets in the way of discipline.
So you learn not to be more disciplined (even though you get the ability), you learn to plan ahead. And avoid "saving yourself poor".
Last year wasn't when you bought that computer. And you didn't replace it with a new one that was exactly like it. The reason you bought a new one was even you, given abilities very few people have, found it too cumbersome or lackluster.
Can do something, to a level of cumbersomeness, and
could be avoided, to a level of simplicity.
If its pennies to the pound, I go simplicity each time. Bragging rights on the internet are very similar to sympathy-stories.
I have been using debian on ARM since armv5 times.
Some things are fun for the challenge, but never when you want to get real work done.
The argument of "but you could get a *, root it, then install, then replace, dremel this, then this and that" gets old. Real honesty out of the box is why I love the pandora and pyra.
Give people what they want, as in what they actually use, do and wish for, and they will repay you gladly in time saved searching, waiting, or procrastinating.
I don't see the point in a recovery partition. My Pandora travels in a carry case with SD slots and a couple extra SD cards, one blank, one with android stuff, and one with SZ 1.71 on it. If my stuff gets jacked, just pop it in and reflash. I would bet most people have the same.
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Guess you missed notaz post. The image is about 1gb. You will have plenty of space. You still haven't said why your backup can't be on a microsd seems like that would work perfectly for you. I mean cmon we will have the potential to have 1.5TB worth of space (with all SD slots filled at 512GB),
but you can only have a backup on the emmc?
You are really stretching now. Can't remember your key? Walk over to the modem, reset it and use the default password.
Next up: "But swordfish, what if you are cooking with hot oil and can't walk over"
A loss of speed can not be recouped. The space i need isn't about to get smaller, it always gets bigger. And you sound like apple.
While i greatly support the idea of a full-flash recovery partition, it is a dual-edged sword if it means an already limited resource becomes even more of a drawback.
You have never worked in support. Murphy's law works in support.
People are very capable of 1. filling up inode-/space, because that can and does happen. 2. they are not good at getting over barriers, because that is a requirement.
People forget their Wi-Fi key, if they even have one. Telling them to reset their configuration, that was your day, now its theirs. Previously secure password now "works for me", other users angry.
Regular Linux|Gnu users have no problems filling up even 20GB, on / alone. They dont remove old kernels, they don't minimal-install, they don't uninstall programs they tried, or installed thinking they were something else. They will install every KDE-library there is to have some program.
If you don't give them the benefit of the doubt, that is now your problem.
First rule of support is to avoid problems leading to support. If you go one step down, you have normal users filling up their finite storage phones with photos. "I have this problem with my phone" If they even so much as see someone capable of functionally doing how it should be handled in the first place. Doesnt matter if you are at work or not, these people will find you.
Expecting 'most people' to be capable and willing to make a recovery SD-card, is wishful. Me is not the point here, and you arent listening to my needs anyhow. You cant just mentally leap something onto a microSD, because it would mean shipping a microSD. Otherwise it is in no way equivalent.
Just like space in general isn't the same as eMMC space. You could have a union filesystem, but it means SD-cards are no longer modular.
Locking down a choice of microSD card is good for getting a good one, but it means you have to pay extra for something a lot of people don't want. And if they do, in a different size. That is why i like modularity.
The reason I like bigger and better things, is that way you cover more people. Within reason, that benefits everyone.
You don't reduce support-time or help matters by making a support system that works only for experienced users. It hurts sales because the biggest demographic is withered away. Refunds or shelved units for no good reason isn't good.
You are projecting that last strawman argument.
