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At the risk of I told you so, it was always a stupid idea. Any service like this that "requires the cloud," but is personal or individual and could be replaced
by jrm4 3y ago
At the risk of I told you so, it was always a stupid idea.
Any service like this that "requires the cloud," but is personal or individual and could be replaced by completely non-cloud software WILL go obsolete.
Obsidian, et al understand this.
- emodendroket 3y agoServices that rely on local storage are vulnerable to their own data loss scenarios as well as being much less convenient.
- system2 3y agoIf you can use a basic hosting with backup features, you can simply use a $5 droplet to sync almost everything possibly you can think of. Or OneDrive / Google Drive if you are using Windows based applications with databases. It is really not that difficult to keep data safe and backed up.
- emodendroket 3y agoI mean, yeah, if for some reason you think Google Drive is safer than Google’s purpose-built notes application, that is an option.
- system2 3y agoAs a backup option. Not their entire service. I tend to think heavily encrypted files could be safe there.
- Falkon1313 3y agoOr much more convenient, given that the data is local and almost always available without the vagaries of an internet connection and remote server (except if/when all the bad local data loss scenarios happen at once and you need to restore from your cloud backup).
- emodendroket 3y agoMaybe your circumstances are different but I find myself without any device capable of getting online at practically no time in a typical day, and in the few scenarios I do, keeping them on one device wouldn’t have helped.
- jrm4 3y agoIt's so odd that comments like this actually still get made on Hacker News; this is SUCH a solved problem, and yet people still make it likely because it pays someones bills, despite being trivially easy to solve. Anyway, syncthing, among others.