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Rule of thumb:
If it isn’t backed up, consider it lost.
Another:
If you don’t control it, don’t trust it.
Another, darker:
Anything offered for free, isn’t. There are hidden costs, and the more hidden, the more nefarious.
Yet another:
Services/products that explain why they’re in your best interest, in vague terms, see you as exploitable resources.
Another:
Anything that takes control out of the hands of the user is evil and will be used for such. -
@Root how early did you have to sign up for this to get that nickname 😀 I would of course agree with everything you just said it’s just frustrating. I try so hard to keep a bookmark in time and things keep getting stolen and rolled back. Why ? What happened that our country has become such an overtly bad place in general ? But that aside the push to try remove personal ownership of everything from company to personal equipment is and has been a very very bad idea even if in some fantasy world the bad guys weren’t enabled by this having ownership of your own assets in a fork that can be stored transferred etc is never a bad idea. I spent for example a couple hundred dollars on Google play their solution to getting locked out of my account for losing a phone was create another account !
How to vertically center in css..
Thanks for the suggestion Google.
So I love how for the last what now, 20 years companies that don't seem to have the most obvious sources of income build huge data servers, and make the general public push to digitization and lack of physical ownership *cough google cough* and then they, after encouraging dependency for storage say 'yeah well, we're going to press the reset button anyone who is being detained for 2 years or so or eating dogshit in the street by deleting all the photos attached to an account that is not logged into for that long'..... seriously.
So I developed a tool to download everything.. a few times now. Why should I have to hop from one foot to the other so much ? Thats what I'm asking.
I tell you, for such a rich company their api's are very poorly documented and there is so much goddamn documentation that is competing with other versions.
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