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There's a middle ground too. I use lots of cloud services, but I also spent $300 on a home NAS device to sync copies of the stuff I can't live without. Not aff
by tyingq 5y ago
There's a middle ground too. I use lots of cloud services, but I also spent $300 on a home NAS device to sync copies of the stuff I can't live without. Not affiliated with them, but I bought a Synology unit, and the UI lets you pretty easily sync things like Google drive.
I'd still be scrambling around a bit to fix stuff if Google banned me, but I'd at least have copies of the most important things.
- southerntofu 5y agoThat works for us tech people who have know-how and cash. Most Internet users across the world don't have 300$ to spend right away (in many parts of the world, 50-200$ for a laptop/phone is already quite the expense). I believe only by empowering smaller, user-friendly providers (eg. hosting coops) can we actually change the situation.
- tyingq 5y agoYes, but the $300 device wasn't really my main point. Just some middle ground of using Google, but maintaining a copy of important data. The copying could be done with a $30 external usb hard drive and regular visits to the Google Takeout page.