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Anyone smart enough knows you should have both. You should be backing up local and offsite.
Off-site backups don’t need to be in the cloud - they can be on your own hardware or that of a friend, just elsewhere.
Of course but how many of us have a friend who is gonna let us set up a NAS at their house? Cloud is a much easier solution.
Running a NAS is fine and all, but iCloud is one less thing in my personal life I have to spend time to sysadmin. I use a NAS for some things and iCloud for photo sharing. No port forwards/etc needed at all.
I have iCloud for family and OneDrive. For local backups I use Time Machine.
I have a synology nas. The cheapest 2 drive model. The nas plus a pair of 4tb drives set me back $380. The time period for roi is pretty significant.
Why do people resort to insults when other people prioritize things differently? This always baffles me, and I’ve been seeing it a lot on Lemmy lately.
I don’t have a NAS. I don’t want a NAS. I have no need for a NAS. I have iCloud purely for my mother, and my time is way more valuable than the cost of iCloud. I also don’t want to deal with troubleshooting if something goes wrong. I fight enough fires at work when a release goes sour.
I’m not stupid because I value my time more than the cost of a subscription. I value the ease of use for my mother more than the cost of a subscription. I understand your values don’t align with mine. That’s okay! You’re not stupid for that. And I’m not stupid for my choices.
Try to see the human and realize that we all have individual lives, goals, and priorities. Insulting people for being different than you is something we should be moving away from, not continuing.