Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.

thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “the cloud” is not a legitimate backup solution, and you’re doing people a disservice by advertising it as such. The majority of service providers are just as untrustworthy as spotify.

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  • tomcatt360@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its still a valuable part of a 3-2-1 rule based backup plan: 3 different copies, on 2 different media types, with 1 copy offsite. I don’t think they were recommending storing your only copy in the cloud afaik

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  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re not entirely wrong. Look, if you want to run your own nextcloud with a VPS, then have at it. IDGAF. My point is, don’t just leave things locally. That’s all I’m saying. If y’all want to argue about which cloud is more ethical than the next, leave me out of it. Average Joe ain’t using something like IronMountain for offsite. Average Joe probably won’t also know how to encrypt their data but I would say doing that helps and I do that with my own keys before uploading it to something like mega.io

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