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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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 I’m looking forward to when the bubble bursts and all this stuff is available 2nd hand for almost nothing
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@stefano Just wait a few weeks. Storage and RAM prices spike every now and then for whatever reason.
@dirk yes, it's a wave. I've seen many of them. This will pass, too.
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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 - the whole point behind a 'personal computer' was that the user wasn't relying on a dumb keyboard attached to some anonymous mainframe elsewhere that held the OS, software and your data. With a PC, the users was in control, on a device that was local. If not in their lap.
Now we're being told that subscription-based software, virtual software (including OS), cloud-based storage and a software application that chooses what it will offer the user is the way to go.
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