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How is this news for anyone? Also, as not to just leave a negative comment, I've been collecting media ever since cd ripping became a thing. I've "invested" may
by arpa 8y ago
How is this news for anyone? Also, as not to just leave a negative comment, I've been collecting media ever since cd ripping became a thing. I've "invested" maybe a couple of thousands of dollars into HDDs, SSDs and dedicated servers that my collection remains owned by me and my family. And the funny thing is that people look at me as if i were a some kind of idiot when i say "well i don't really use streaming media services".
- Multicomp 8y agoI get the same sort of bemused condescension when I talk about continuing to buy the Blu Ray, the book, or this strange dance of rotating out on and off-site HDDs and (gasp of all gasps!) occasionally putting my most important documents on WORM media. I might think that attitude stems from a lack of awareness regarding control of digital data. You and I might know that if we put our movies, books, backups in The Cloud, they are really just going on someone else's server and that such an action causes us to lose some control over it, but others not so much. Once I took the time to explain why I did all of this 'old school stuff' to someone who kept everything in their Google Drive, only downloading to local storage if they had to, and their response was a lengthy worded version of "I don't feel confident doing all that so I won't try to learn and instead trust in Google since they are the experts."