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Logical self-preservation in action. And it is a telling indictment of the corporate character displayed by Google: - Exploitable for minor personal convenien
by philiphodgen 10y ago
Logical self-preservation in action.
And it is a telling indictment of the corporate character displayed by Google:
- Exploitable for minor personal convenience ("Use Gmail! Use Gcal! Simple and free!")
- Not to be trusted under any circumstances with important matters ("We can evaporate your existence from the internet for all practical purposes and there's not a damn thing you can do about it.")
Some day, it will become important for us to own our own lives again. And I say this as someone who runs his business on GApps. I'm as guilty as everyone else.
- btian 10y agoCurious what you mean by "own our own lives again". Are you planning to run your own email servers (or any other service that Google provides)? Or just switch to another vendor?
- philiphodgen 10y agoI don't know what to do. But it irks me that I follow the easier, softer way -- knowing that I am causing trouble to myself by doing so.
- kinkdr 10y agoMy answer to this problem is less dramatic; I am just hedging my bets. For search and maps, I use Google, for personal hardware, Apple, for cloud servers, AWS, for email, Fastmail on my own domain, and so on. It is slightly more inconvenient than having one Google account to rule everything, but it helps me at leas feel a bit saner..
- dkarapetyan 10y agoFastmail with a personal domain is very easy to set up.
- mark_l_watson 10y agoThat is great advice. I have the same setup, except I use OVH instead of AWS because the cost is much lower, but still meets my needs (AWS, GCP, and Azure are all great services that I have used, no criticism intended).
- naasking 10y agoSomething like sandstorm would give you more power over your own data without the burden of running your own services.
- rincebrain 10y agoe: Ignore this, I was mistaken, see downthread. Eventually, this may be true. In practice, I believe Sandstorm still requires nontrivial amounts of handholding when updates occur.
- kentonv 10y agoEh? Sandstorm automatically updates itself and apps...
- rincebrain 10y agoMy apologies, I misunderstood some of the grumbling I had heard from some friends running a Sandstorm installation. I just checked back with them, and they confirmed that I'm entirely mistaken.