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Interesting 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 (back
by softawre 8y ago
Interesting 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.