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The consequence is that you have to start thinking of your entire digital life as disposable. I hope a company will rise to solve this problem and fill this nee
by beamatronic 8y ago
The consequence is that you have to start thinking of your entire digital life as disposable. I hope a company will rise to solve this problem and fill this need.
- softawre 8y agoInteresting idea, how does one do this? Make friends locally, save a ton of money (in case you can't work virtually later on), have entertainment locally (backed up or IRL), what else?
- ryandrake 8y agoYes, yes, and yes. And local backups of all the things. Don’t rely on anything you don’t host yourself, on your own metal. With the exception of a VPS and possibly my AppleID, I could probably lose all my online accounts today and it would not result in meaningful data loss. I’m planning to move my (VPS-hosted) Email on-site one day, and after that’s done my ISP is the last remaining point of failure.
- Domenic_S 8y ago> your own metal It's absolutely maddening that I can't update my video card driver without logging into an nvidia account. That's the direction "your own metal" is going to keep going though.
- justinclift 8y agoIf you roll back your driver to an older version of GeForce Experience - one that doesn't require the nvidia account - wouldn't that let you pull down just driver updates? eg as long as you don't update the GeForce Experience program, you should be ok?
- beamatronic 8y agoExactly, you almost need to be sort of a prepper, with some cash on hand. But I was thinking of the whole vertical stack (backup email address, cell phone, credit cards). I’m thinking “continuity of business” preparations.
- konschubert 8y agoI think the first important step is to control the domain that your email address is on.
- beamatronic 8y agoTrue, but my point is with your digital identity there is always a 3rd party risk. You might want to pay a reputable email provider for your primary email and pay a second reputable email provider for your secondary
- konschubert 8y agoIf you own the domain name and back up your emails regularly I would say having the provider shut down wouldn't be more than a nuisance.
- hedora 8y agoI think the market leader here is Synology, but I haven’t carefully checked out their competitors, and it is only a subset of what you want.