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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 01:46:07 JST Rich Felker

   TIL "iTunes could not back up the iPhone...because not enough free space is available on this computer" can actually be a lie and the ENOSPC actually came from the phone lacking temp space to stage the backup.

   Apple is such a clowncar these days. Completely unusable by anyone without technical expertise to figure this shit out.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 02:07:04 JST Rich Felker

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     And another lying failure mode: "could not back up because the iPhone disconnected" after hitting 100% because of some stale state on the backup directory. Deleting and recreating is needed to make it work. This is documented on Apple's forums but with no acknowledgment or fix. 🤦

     https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251091243

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 02:08:37 JST Rich Felker

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     This is the most unserious shit and they only get away with it because they badger most users into storing their life on iCloud and replacing their device every 1-2 years. 🤬

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 03:01:27 JST Rich Felker

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     I love it how the backup for a completely full "128 GB" iPhone is just over 64 GB, because HALF of the advertised storage is consumed by utterly discardable garbage.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 04:39:58 JST Rich Felker

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     • 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

     @grumpybozo Nothing that takes up significant space is significantly compressible.

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     🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 (grumpybozo@toad.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 04:39:59 JST 🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦

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     @dalias Are you sure that’s not compression? I would think that since they encrypt backups they would also compress them.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 05:56:17 JST Rich Felker

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     Immediately after restore, usage dropped from 126.5 GB to 86.5 GB.

     Some of that might be apps not yet downloaded but most is caches and sqlite turds with no way to remove them short of wipe-and-restore. 🤬

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 06:13:21 JST Rich Felker

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     Most striking were 12 GB of Apple Maps turds and 8 GB of WhatsApp turds (shown up in Settings/Storage but not in the app's own view of its usage).

     There is utterly no excuse for lack of a "wipe turds" button (that would just evaluate everything that would be restored in a backup/restore cycle and delete everything else) with per-app granularity.

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     Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 06:46:54 JST Howard Chu @ Symas

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     @dalias my Huawei phones have an "Optimizer" app that tells me it is periodically deleting "junk" but never tells me what got deleted. Only barely better than useless.

     The other feature I hate is Android now silently removing permissions from apps I "haven't used recently" even though they're always running in the background. Like microG services, which breaks periodically because its permissions get removed, even though Settings shows them still enabled.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 06:46:54 JST Rich Felker

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     • Howard Chu @ Symas

     @hyc Yeah. I supposedly turned that off on Lineage but it still happens and breaks shit. Need to find the name of the service and force disable it with pm...