you see people / companies advocating for the cloud thing have huge interests in you/me - joe average developer to using cloud tools. BigCo's development workf

you see people / companies advocating for the cloud thing have huge interests in you/me - joe average developer to using cloud tools. BigCo's development workflow is cloud based because they own the IP. IP - being the most important word. looking at world around me, IP is what makes things tick. IP is why America industrialized, IP is why American's are spooked by the Chinese. And if a average joe like me - moves to the cloud things - where i'm using a dumb terminal n hell the browser is being streamed to me. What IP would I own. I would simply be a renter. now me your average developer since realizing IP is the most important thing - I have resolved to go the opposite route. use text files for my notes / writings. create things locally and back them locally as well. SSD's and CD's are cheap. Desktop machines are cheap - an Alder Lake i5 is as fast. and even better maybe instead of making software for the browser making local software with C++ to make sure it's portable and runs fast who's data is stored in a text file.