Return Of The Razr And Local Computing

In my tenacious tech trek, I’m now back to using the Motorola Razr 2024 in Spritz Orange. It’s flippin’ good. The reason? Local-first computing. You know, that thing we used to do before cloud computing put all our files on someone else’s hard drive behind hack-able account credentials and a perpetual subscription fee? Yeah, it’s kind of like sneakernet. I love how my Android phone has an accessible local file system like my PC does. Using my Razr comes with trade-offs. One downside is that I’m back to carrying two phones around. My iPhone 15 Pro is still my main one with an eSim for mobile data and calls/texts. I’m hoping that by offloading some big tasks to the Razr, my iPhone’s battery will be spared for its main functions. On the upside, a nice advantage of an Android phone over a more locked-down iPhone is that it’s like an external hard drive. I simply connect my Razr to my PC with a USB cable to read/write/transfer discrete files. While it’s still digital, it feels more…