There's a variety of reasons to do it, and I didn't really plan it out in advance, but over the last couple of years I've found myself gradually transitioning m

There's a variety of reasons to do it, and I didn't really plan it out in advance, but over the last couple of years I've found myself gradually transitioning my digital life to thick-client mode. I've been thin-client pretty much all my life, starting with college where I didn't own a computer and everything lived somewhere I "went to", then when I bought my first Windows laptop but would ssh into university servers to do anything (I'd already burnt out on installing Linux for other people). When I built my own website it seemed natural (but with hindsight, not the ideal security posture) to treat it as my home. Over time I started saving a backup of my digital home locally. But for a long time it was just a backup. The source of truth in my mind was in the cloud. Most of what has happened recently is a piecemeal inversion where I start thinking of the local copy of various things as the ground truth. Eventually I noticed my cloud server was altogether too beefy for a tiny website and a glorified backup server. I moved the data to a dedicated backup service and started pushing backups up from my laptop. Then I downsized the server; all it needs to do now is run the website. The appropriate use of the cloud is communications and backups. Everything else should be local.