don't trust cloud services with creative work
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TLDR: make multiple backups
Two is one and one is none
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If you want to back up anything important on someone else's server (cloud), put it all into an encrypted blob. It's not a bad idea to use them to put a copy of your files in a different physical location, but also don't trust them any further than necessary.
Cryptomator is a great tool for this
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I'm sure this was reasonable 10 years ago, when Google didn't have a policy of erasing people's files without reason.
I am not talking about Google but rather Overleaf and GitHub. Though there is university data kept on Google Drive including students marks.
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The only time in my life I've seriously considered suicide was when I lost the usb drive that had all my novel notes on it. If a major company ripped everything from me because "reasons", I'd be considering homicide instead.
By the way, git is good for more than just software. I keep my novel notes in a git repository these days.
I do my writing in markdown. Keeps me from being distracted over formatting. Easily converted to HTML/EPUB for review and editing. git + plaintext + pandoc is a dream.
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Do you think that people don't pay for Google Drive? The 15 GB they give you is a free sample. Their basic 100 GB cloud storage plan costs 20 USD annually and the premium 2 TB plan costs 200 USD annually. Maybe you don't pay for Google Drive, but there are over 150 million people who do. These people are paying customers.
These people are paying customers.
well, it is a good thing they are treated as such and there is no problem then
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Actually you can pay for google services including cloud storage and many businesses do this. How are they not customers?
How are they not customers?
if they were treated as such, we wouldn't be having this discussion, would we?
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Where did you get twenty-something from? No, I consider people in their twenties to be young people.
Where did you get twenty-something from?
that's usual age when people are at the university. your "as an old" might probably be worded more clearly if you meant something different.
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Look, you and I know this. I never trusted Google for anything. But I'm just saying, I understand why normies are shocked and feel betrayed.
I understand why normies are shocked and feel betrayed.
they can't say they have not been warned. sometimes the "we told you so" is not as satisfying as it should be...
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Where did you get twenty-something from?
that's usual age when people are at the university. your "as an old" might probably be worded more clearly if you meant something different.
You can go back to college at any age as long as you’ve got the money for classes.
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You can go back to college at any age as long as you’ve got the money for classes.
i see you must be from the freedom country. in civilized world, you can do that without the money
it is just that the wording wasn't very clear. -
i see you must be from the freedom country. in civilized world, you can do that without the money
it is just that the wording wasn't very clear.I see you must be from the Star Fleet academy where they no longer use currency for anything. There’s more to the cost of college classes than tuition.
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Am I too old? I only trust hard saving to offline storage. Be that an external hdd or a flash drive.
You are not too old. I feel the exact same way. Anything worth keeping should be saved locally. Plus storage today is so cheap, there really is no excuse to save exclusively on the cloud.
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I see you must be from the Star Fleet academy where they no longer use currency for anything. There’s more to the cost of college classes than tuition.
There’s more to the cost of college classes than tuition.
yeah, no. that is literally it. once you pay the tuition (where applicable), you can visit the classes. you specifically used the phrase "money for classes", so don't try to bullshit your way around what you said. i know you need to eat and house yourself. these are not money for classes.
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There’s more to the cost of college classes than tuition.
yeah, no. that is literally it. once you pay the tuition (where applicable), you can visit the classes. you specifically used the phrase "money for classes", so don't try to bullshit your way around what you said. i know you need to eat and house yourself. these are not money for classes.
You have such nice ways of getting your points across to people. I'm sure you make friends super easy. Yeah, I'm aware I live in a shithole country. You don't have to be an elitist dick about it.
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I just realized the other day that one of the updates on my Chromebook automatically installed something called "NotebookLM" on my app bar. Never asked for it. Never even looked at apps on my Chromebook before. But it's there now, and it super secret bloodswap pinky swares it won't steal my ideas or writing. What an odd thing to say on first open.
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alright, cool. so what?
So its a pretty small number of words.
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They said Intel ME, not Israel ME.
Holy shit. I had forgotten that they did that. Guess the exploding pagers were kind of overshadowed by the genocide.
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I mean it's technically permanent as long as your organization continues paying for the license
Of course, they could downgrade your license or revoke it at any time. And they definitely will revoke it when you graduate (so they can reallocate the licensing costs to new students).
Your work/school accounts don't belong to you.
Forgot to mention but my school advertised permanent access to our school email, which back then meant free student benefits like the education unlimited storage. I technically still do have access, but it's a lot less useful nowadays
Google just went back on that education unlimited thing because they realized it was not sustainable, so my school had to enforce it somehow
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Alright cool, probably takes a long time to do while also having a job and a family, but I'm just saying there were times in college where I wrote out 5k words in a day, formatted and typeset within a week.
Do you think your 5k words in a day were written well enough for someone to pay for it? Homework is not a product you have to market.
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Do you think your 5k words in a day were written well enough for someone to pay for it? Homework is not a product you have to market.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I was a 3.8 with degrees in Engineering and a minor in Humanities, and yes actually I am a published scifi writer as well.
I don't mean to put anybody down, unlike you, but 12k simply isn't a lot in the context of a manuscript.
Anybody reading this who dabbles in writing should spend more time on it to reach realistic goals in their lifetime.
