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I know this is windows, but I remember when I got my work-iPad and became acquainted with the cloud. When it "ran out of storage" and wanted me to pay for extra storage and I was like: why the fuck would I pay you for storing my files on your shady cloud? If anything, I was relieved that the "cloud was full" because that must mean that none of what is currently on my iPad is uploaded anywhere weird and shady. Right? Right? Lol. I'm glad that most of the shit stuck in the cloud are shitty memes I saved in images early, because im a friggin child. Barely anything important has been saved there. I still dunno how it works or why I should want it to save my shit.
It's the same with how many people told me how I should get an iPhone after I got an iPad because it would make it so easy for me to fileshare and link everything up. How I should also get a Mac so I could file-sharing there and my reaction everytime was: why would I want all my devices linked, bro? That sounds like a potential safety hazard to me, but I'm a tech-retard so I don't know anything. I just don't find the idea of everything being linked up and gathered in the cloud to be particularly enticing or cute. I like my devices separate and I don't mind if it's a but inconvenient for me to fileshare.
Sometimes I don't understand people nor why they think conveniences overrules personal safety and privacy. Are you sure you want every single thing you do on one device to be shared and saved on another? Are you SURE you want that? Because I'm not. It's not even a matter of doing fishy stuff or not, it's a matter of having control over where your information is stored and accessible and there's no way in fucking hell I'd want my personal phone to be linked to my WORK iPad. Lol. Nobody needs see the diabetes-inducing shit my boyfriend and I send to one another everyday.
"No I love you moar💗😍"
"No you, cutie-poo❤️❤️❤️"
"No you times infinity😘"
Yes, we are pushing 40. No, we don't plan on stopping being this gross.
Exactly my opinion, if I want something accessible from a different device through the cloud I'll be the one to put it there. I'll decide which folders to sync, which files to upload. 99% of my data is crap that I don't want synced, half of that is probably not anything I even want on that device in the first place.
What really gets me is that the things I really really don't ever want to lose, I don't ever want any cloud provider to have access to without it being encrypted.
Personally, I prefer to store files etc on external hard drives. It's a mix of not liking how little control I feel I have over my files when they are being stored by a separate entity (if you can call it that), but also because as I become gradually more aware, I just find it harder and harder to be okay with the idea of having thousands of servers all over the world in datacenters standing there, running full time, nuking the environment, just so I can have my memes and vacation pictures etc accessible at all hours of the day and from any device I use.
I know it's probably more complicated than that, and I also don't judge what other people do, as we all pick our battles. I just can't help but feeling weird about all this cloud-type shit that all the tech-psychos want us to use, become dependent on and charge us for. It just doesn't feel right to me.
Look into M-Disk.
100-120GB Blurays.
Yes, indeed, why would you?
They're basically bulletproof, hard drives can corrupt slowly over time, and you may not realize that one file among thousands no longer functions or opens. Those solve that issue cheaper and more environmentally than a NAS, especially of you want to archive sensitive and personal data.
This is a love story if I ever saw one!
The most love story that ever storied.
Yes.
That's why I self-host a personal cloud on an encrypted device with VPN access only.
That's why I sandbox my personal and organization profiles. If I had a dedicated work device, none of my personal accounts would be connected anyways.
Love. Gross.