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Baby pictures.. That's really sad… Reminds me of when the executive editor of wired magazine, Matt Honan, trusted all of his baby pictures and movies to iCloud only for it to get hacked and have it all deleted. Always have that off-line back up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944
With the barest of config, it's almost a drop-in replacement
Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
That's a compelling argument (or for how it should be but I bet it isn't) for local play I suppose, but surely the volume's in online multiplayer, where physical media really doesn't save you because you're reliant on server etc. anyway. (And arguably why not download the game assets or whatever if you're going to necessarily play connected anyway.)
Who the fuck designs these flows...
Check the TOS, it was never the user’s account.
microsoft "permanently suspended (his) account ... (to) ensure (his) data remains protected". but microsoft cannot give him his data. therefore microsoft stole his personal property and are protecting it for their own use. this is legal because he agreed to it. everybody has to use windows, and microsoft account creation is now forced by windows - therefore I call this slavery coercion
I don't. What makes me so special!?
But locking the games out is unacceptable since you can not back these up and they are not sensitive data. At the very least Microsoft should either offer a new account with all the purchases included, or a full refund.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
My progress in getting everything off Google Drive and OneDrive has slowed due to real life but all the important stuff is backed up offline now.
This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally! And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff. (OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).
I don't know about in this case, but I've heard of both Apple and Microsoft "cloudifying" then deleting local files just found on your drive. I think with Apple, it was music. The lack of control with closed platforms is staggering. Best make those offline bsckups.
It does mean you need a separate backup process though.