> Put all your data in "the cloud", give up control, and be subjected to the whims of big tech. I try but I wish I could make more people understand the implic

> Put all your data in "the cloud", give up control, and be subjected to the whims of big tech. I try but I wish I could make more people understand the implications of this. If your data is in any "cloud", it is entirely at the whim of those companies whether you can lose access permanently at any moment. For any data that you actually care to be able to access in the future with some reasonable assurance, you must have either a local copy in your control or an enterprise-level support contract with SLAs with the cloud provider. The latter is expensive so for personal use of personal data, local copy is the only practical answer.