In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.
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In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.
Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.
Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.
Always Own Your Data.
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In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.
Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.
Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.
Always Own Your Data.
@stefano Totally agree and I wanna add that often you don't even to self host to Own Your Data, you can start small with stuff such as:
- backing up your photo on your desktop/laptop using the gold old cable and an app supporting PTP protocol (Windows and Mac have at least one preinstalled while on BSD and Linux you have many options to download from package repositories), no iCloud or Google Photos needed
- choosing DRM free ebooks, music and games and keeping a backup of them
- using Syncthing to sync your data across devices -
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@stefano Totally agree and I wanna add that often you don't even to self host to Own Your Data, you can start small with stuff such as:
- backing up your photo on your desktop/laptop using the gold old cable and an app supporting PTP protocol (Windows and Mac have at least one preinstalled while on BSD and Linux you have many options to download from package repositories), no iCloud or Google Photos needed
- choosing DRM free ebooks, music and games and keeping a backup of them
- using Syncthing to sync your data across devices@emilianosandri exactly. and if it's critical data, you can pay someone for helping you to safely store or manage them. It will be cheaper and more secure than "daaa claaaaooouudd"
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@emilianosandri exactly. and if it's critical data, you can pay someone for helping you to safely store or manage them. It will be cheaper and more secure than "daaa claaaaooouudd"
@stefano I wish for a future where home users entrusts a local IT technician to setup backups and other IT stuff rather than paying cloud subscriptions and throwing away their devices at the first malfunction.
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@jhx oooh for sure... and I love the dock. a real dock, where the laptop has a dedicated port on the bottom and connects to it without the dongle jungle mess of modern laptops.
potential fixes of imperfectness:
1. Framework laptop and similar
2. Gemini protocol web for simplicity
3. e-waste... sadly this is probably only going to get worse.
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@stefano I wish for a future where home users entrusts a local IT technician to setup backups and other IT stuff rather than paying cloud subscriptions and throwing away their devices at the first malfunction.
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@stefano Oh, agreed. Even as a tech pro it's not easy. Earlier this year I started the process to de-Google. Not easy by any stretch of the imagination. It isn't so much dealing with Google's walled garden but the fact it's tech is integrated into so many other providers.
While I've moved my mail to a new and more ethical provider, I still have 566GB of stuff sitting in my Google Drive. While my new provider offers encrypted cloud storage, it is still *someone else's* data center. Though, it does inspire some confidence knowing they aren't a part of the NSA's PRISM Program.
There are other products I use which, upon registration, I used my Google account...which is also tied to my Android phone and TV.
Oh, and there's also Google Voice which I use for a variety of things including voicemail across my devices.
Given how tightly integrated companies are to Google (and/or other #bigtech players), it seems the only way to not be tangled in their thorn bushes is to never enter that garden. Ever.
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