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> It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience. I used to get horrified too until
by dpacmittal 3y ago
> It horrifies me that so many people are so willing to commit their valuable data to the cloud just because of convenience.
I used to get horrified too until I learned that average user doesn't care much about losing pictures. My wife has lost phone full of pics multiple times and she's upset for like few hours.
- JeremyNT 3y agoThis is an important insight. It's easy to obsess over the idea of any data loss, because the value of some data is quite high. But for most people in most circumstances losing their cloud hosted photos is probably not a big deal, and it's also probably far less likely than the users losing locally stored photos due to some mistake of their own.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoYou don't know what you've lost until it's something you want to re-live or remember. I go back through photos and videos of my kids and it reminds me that I succeeded at something worthwhile and difficult for at least a period of my life. They had a blessed childhood. Food or selfies and even holiday snaps mean little. But the kids... that's the raison d'être. Overall it's these photos and videos that are my strongest motivation for the paranoia-level backup setup I have.