> What do you have available to you when the internet is down? Certainly not everything at this stage, but in a properly run Memex system, IMO, that really sho

> What do you have available to you when the internet is down? Certainly not everything at this stage, but in a properly run Memex system, IMO, that really should be everything. Assuming enough local storage, there is no reason not to save every page you view while browsing the web in full. > What do you have available to you after a hard drive failure? That's the point (or at least one of them) of having stuff in the cloud. The standard answer to that, is to have good backups. Bite the bullet and spend some time and money on buying the proper equipment (a commercial NAS, a Raspberry Pi NAS with some USB-connected drives, a small form-factor PC with a couple of SSDs, anything you want), and integrating it into your other machines as a backup destination. Cloud makes it much easier, but also less private, with an ongoing monthly cost, and adds an additional point of failure that's outside of your control. As for how I balance it personally? Local storage all the way. Even if I picked an end-to-end encrypted backup service, several terabytes of data is just too expensive to store in the cloud.