I had to reinstall Onedrive at work. Doing that screwed up so much I spent a total of about 8 hours to get everything working again and 2 more to redo the work that was lost before reinstalling. Now I view anything that I don't control directly as ephemeral.
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Isn't that a bit too radical, though? Don't you start feeling like, "if you want to do an apple pie from scratch, first you need to invent the universe?"
For me, it's not so much about direct control but that I don't want to lose the option. The way I see it, if a service is built on open standards and is well managed, I don't mind having it run by someone else. But if whatever service you are trying to sell me denies me the option of taking my data and going elsewhere, it's an instant nope for me.
It's maybe very radical in worldview, but not in action. I still use stuff like netflix, spotify and youtube instead of downloading everything and share files through cloud storage, I just view it as something I can enjoy/use now that might not be around in the future. If I really want to keep something, the only things I can trust are myself and FOSS.
Running out of harddrive space
I forget which show it was, but it was pulled from Netflix while I was watching it.
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Animal agriculture
I first tried out Plex like a decade ago because The Simpsons weren't available online in any way and I hated having to change DVDs all the time. I loved that it remembered where I'd left off too.
I was using it to track which episodes I'd rewatched as I prepared for a Simpsons trivia competition. My team ended up taking second place! We won a case of donuts. :-)
The cumulative cost of all these individual file services (iCloud, OneDrive, google drive). I realized I was paying for them all and still running out of space…eventually, I figured there had to be a better way.
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I wanted to learn how things work.
- The overall enshittification of online digital services.
- The fact that I was at the mercy of multiple companies and my ISP to turn on/off my smart devices connected to my LOCAL network
- The fact that I was paying for spotify just to play the same few hundred songs, most of which I'd already purchased in the past. Same thing for Disney+ and the kids shows my nephews watch.
- The company that provided the password manager I used got hacked
- I was using a digital assistant with an always-on microphone as a glorified timer.
That's just off the top of my head.
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gen x.I grew up owning applications and media.The move to cloud and rent everything is not something im a fan of.The one exception is streaming shows.
This! Milenial here, if I bought something it is mine and I can do whatever I want with it. You can't just take it away, or keep changing me.
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- Netflix dropping a bunch of shows I subscribed to it for and raising their prices. I'll just have my media locally kthxbye.
- Similar to the OP's Spore story, losing a bunch of in-progress game saves to DRM verification servers that went offline permanently and left my saved games unusable. Thanks EA!
It all started with my father, who dreamed of re-watching films from his childhood. As it was difficult (impossible) to find them in the shops, I used the alternative method. It all started with collecting old films from his era. For my part, ever since I was a child, I've had this "little voice in my head" telling me "what would happen if one day the suppliers of music, films, books... disappeared (because of politics, war, the end of sales... or whatever). Since then, I've digitally preserved everything I can (I only keep things that are hard to find, useful or that I like). And... mainly because I love technology and discovering all the things people can build with their keyboards.
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Accidentally bought a very cheap old Synology thinking it was a dual bay USB hard drive enclosure