The solution is so simple as to be boring: keep your stuff in files on the filesystem. Your data is in a box. SaaS put your data in other people’s servers. Pho

The solution is so simple as to be boring: keep your stuff in files on the filesystem. Your data is in a box. SaaS put your data in other people’s servers. Phones put your data in a hidden store because app APIs only let developers do it that way - and Apple decided people don’t want filesystems. But this is all reverting back: you can download your data thanks to GDPR, and phones have file browsers now. Every computer has a filesystem. Even ones that pretend not to. It’s the common-denominator of computing.