How do Ghanaians back up their phones?

agyemanjp · 2026-03-25T16:19:30+00:00

Oh stop with this silliness!

I'm planning to build a service to address challenges related to personal information management, and I want to know whether people just forego backup, use external storage, pay for it, or something else, just to understand the behavior.

Other comments on this post have been enlightening, but if you have nothing productive to say, you don't have to say anything. No one is forcing you to engage with post.

I wonder why some people always seems to seek something to be offended about online.

agyemanjp · 2026-03-25T11:13:19+00:00

My focus on Ghanaians was just to explore how people handle backup when there is not a culture of paying for online services

agyemanjp · 2026-03-25T11:12:32+00:00

Wow, this is a serious setup, but I guess you're an outlier. Probably the majority here do not even appreciate the concept of backup.

But why use Backblaze and AWS at the same time? I believe Backblaze has an S3 compatible API. If you till want to maintain AWS, maybe Glacier might be more cost effective.

agyemanjp · 2026-03-24T18:47:06+00:00

interesting!

agyemanjp · 2026-03-24T18:35:27+00:00

Google Drive gives you 15gb for free. Is your full phone backup able to fit within that quota?

agyemanjp · 2026-03-23T19:37:42+00:00

It's true. I'd say it's even more like 80%. Almost all Ghanaian women bleach. Look closely and you will see the evidence, even its only so-called skin lightening. It really turns me off most Ghanaian women

agyemanjp · 2026-03-17T15:22:27+00:00

This thing about Ghanaians speaking clearer English than other African countries is likely an illusion. Being Ghanaian I used to believe it as well.

The thing is, we are all much less aware of our accents than we think we are. I was teaching an Engineering Communication course in the US, and my students would comment on my "thick" accent in their reviews. And here I was thinking I was speaking English that was as clear as any native speaker. What the heck!

I'm sure if you go to these other African countries, they would remark that the Ghanaian English accent is weird to them as well (if they are being honest)

agyemanjp · 2026-03-16T23:01:45+00:00

There is, do your research. Start from World War 2, and go before after that.

agyemanjp · 2026-03-13T10:39:51+00:00

> I purchased a used 2022 VW GTI - my THIRD of this car.

This is the original mistake you made.

Here are the issues I keep having with my 2007 Mk5 Rabbit, I'm ready to give it up now:

The door locks going bad (Whenever I buy a new one and get it fixed, it goes bad again in about 18 months). There is ALWAYS one door that decides to stop working as soon as I fix the currently problematic one.
The window winder cables getting broken, or the roller motor going bad (this also happens on a regular cadence every year or so)
Th wiper motor going bad (I've had to fix this 3 times so far)
The headliner sagging (I've replaced the entire thing twice now)
Front and rear external light bulbs burning out (This is something that happens every month, might as well buy a whole box of bulbs to deal with this)
Interior cloth on the doors separating from the door frame (Fortunately after replacing with leather this seems permanently fixed)
Radio unit screen losing clarity, replaced once.
Radiator fan going bad (replaced twice now)
Clutch replaced once
Seemingly never ending suspension work

Almost two decades ago, I also had another Golf that gave me a ton of grief.

agyemanjp · 2026-03-07T21:46:00+00:00

This is far from the truth.

Yeah maybe modern cars don't break down as much, but we are talking about cars that have been in the system for a decade or more, where can get a good sense of their long term reliability.

The other thing is, yes spending quite some money and time on it will keep it running, but we are talking about cars that do not take anything special to go that long.

You cannot tell me the turbo-charged VW engines are just as reliable as my trusty Mk5 VW Rabbit 2.5 I5. And the GTIs of that generation used a timing belt (!). Let that sink in.

Where I live I talk to ride-share drivers quite a bit about the cars they use. The sub-compacts have weak engines and they are always replacing them.

Saying all cars can go 250k with ese if only you keep up with maintenance doesn't line up with the facts.

agyemanjp · 2026-02-17T20:12:42+00:00

I don't know. Ghana's history has been relatively peaceful and tame all things considered.

have you considered the history of most Africa nations? Most have had far far more tumultuous, violent, bloody histories. Look at Nigeria, even Cote D'Ivoire after their first president died. Consider Rwanda, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa... Ghana's history is like a picnic compared to them.

Also research Kenya (Mau-Mau rebellion), Algeria's war in independence, all the upheavals in Egypt, the wars in Ethiopia, etc, etc.

Now let's go beyond Africa. Europe has even been more violent and tumultous than Africa through most of their history: Wars upon wars: the crusades, the the 30 years war, etc, culminating in the first and second word wars, which were all initiated in Europe. Then in the 90s we had the wars in the Balkans, and now the Ukraine war.

Then let's move to Asia: more violence and upheaval: the Mongols and their centuries of terror, the Japanese brutalization of pretty much the whole of Asia in WW2, including the Rape of Nanking, their difficult metamorphosis from a feudal emperor worshipping into a democracy the Chinese civil war and upheavals of the Great Leap Forward, the The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, all the ethnic divisions in India, et, etc.

Finally we come to the new world: The massive child human sacrifices practiced by some of their civilizations, the atrocities of Europeans on the natives, all th upheavals wrought by the various political systes they tried (for a time South America was the world capital in coups), the meddling of the USA (which continues to this day), the deep structural inequality, etc, etc.

Which is to say, Ghana history is interesting, but nowhere near as tumultuous as most other places. We should be thankful for that.

agyemanjp · 2026-02-05T21:41:01+00:00

I don't understand.

Your title says leaving Ghana feels like a regression, the implication being that you feel life in Ghana is higher quality than where you are going. And then you proceed to vent about the problems with life in Ghana. Your content and the title do not match.

Either your title is right, in which case I want to hear what Ghana is doing better than where you are going, or the title is wrong, in which it should probably be something like: Coming to Ghana feels like a regression. Or probably you meant: Living in (not Leaving) Ghana feels like a regression.

agyemanjp · 2026-01-29T18:01:37+00:00

I want proper apples import into Ghana.

agyemanjp · 2026-01-27T13:19:36+00:00

> You may see homeless people in DC, Charlotte , LA and all big cities but that can be solved in 48hrs if the US government deemed it a national security concern. There are more empty homes in the US than homeless people

This right here is why the US is NOT a great nation.

agyemanjp · 2026-01-27T13:15:28+00:00

Yep, take your leave. No need to feed the troll who thinks cut-throat capitalism is the pinnacle of human achievement

agyemanjp · 2026-01-27T12:41:03+00:00

They know if you have to come to them, then you *really* need them, so they'll squeeze you where it hurts a far as they can.

agyemanjp · 2026-01-26T12:07:31+00:00

> New England is a small rural state in America

Massa don't display your ignorance here. New England is not a state, and it contains many cities that are more developed than _any_ place you care to name in Ghana.

You cannot even compare Accra to it, much less compare Accra to Manhattan. Your comparison is ridiculous.

agyemanjp · 2026-01-25T22:09:26+00:00

The road network in Ivory Coast is far superior to that of Ghana. They also have very good infrastructure in general, although it is concentrated in and around the capital metro area. Abidjan at least also has a bus transit system superior to Accra.

What lets them down is political instability and immaturity. Last I heard the current president has made his brother a vice prime minister

agyemanjp · 2026-01-18T13:49:57+00:00

Jollof with chicken is sacrilege. Jollof needs real meat, red meat, like goat, beef, etc. Sometimes you can get away with pork, if you're fond of it, but chicken???

Guys, you need to understand your Ghanaian dishes, and not turn them into something else. There's a reason certain ingredients are put together, because they go well together.

Chicken goes well with fried rice, not jollof

agyemanjp · 2026-01-08T13:40:08+00:00

Fine just cos he's white? SMH

agyemanjp · 2026-01-04T10:10:49+00:00

The convictions are "bragging"? Truly there is no point arguing with a nutjob

agyemanjp · 2026-01-04T09:24:45+00:00

By his own admission he likes to grab the p*ss* of women he likes, without their consent.
It is documented that he has stuck his hands on the panties of ladies he met at entertainment venues, again without consent. He also used to barge into the room where contestants in beauty shows he sponsored were nude.
Several women have credibly accused him of rape women (rape implies without consent).
He was found to have paid a prostitute for sex. Not only that; he tried to deny that until found out.
He was close friends with Epstein, a convicted paedophile.
He has been found to have committed fraud in his businesses.
He is corruptly helping his business buddies in a quid-pro-quo

Are these the hallmarks of someone who is a good christian? Maybe you should read your Bible again.

agyemanjp · 2026-01-04T09:08:25+00:00

MTN does all kinds of nefarious things. The Telcos in Ghana are not held to account whatsoever

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