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I use Backblaze B2 for my music backups. It costs a bit to restore the files from there, but just storing them is cheap enough for me to not care.
When did they start charging for restoration? Are you doing something other than just downloading it?
It is utterly despicable either way, and exactly the behavior I would expect from a sociopath.
I understand the aesthetic appeal of the relatively well-designed products but anyone who buys Apple products is enabling a hugely powerful abuser.
Just say no to rotten fruit kids!
I had my entire music collection stored on Google Play Music for a time, at one point being my only backup. When I tried to export my music collection, I discovered that not only were the file names and folder structures completely messed up, but I would sometimes get lower bitrate version of the songs or songs with "clean" lyrics - which I know for a fact wasn't what I had originally uploaded. I refuse to use music…
They are just labelled as shared seedbox.
Honestly, I don't know how to get that much bandwidth, that much space for the same price as a seedbox. I suspect reliability of data is not as good as a proper VPS.
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My friend is in his 60s who is not very technical, but is very into music. He has 1000s of (purchased) CDs and vinyl. He has ripped a lot of it onto a local hard drive. I can see how he might think Apple Music _is_ a backup of those files. It seems a failing of modern technology that he needs to understand backup in the sense of bits on a magnetic disk is different to being able to access the files as a network strea…
Isn't his backup his CDs and vinyl? I get the reason for maintaining another backup but your friend seems to be reasonably fine using Apple Music.
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The “Bitcoin” people have that saying, cautioning people about wallet ownership and the danger of cloud wallets: “Not your keys, not your coins.” I think we need a clever saying to rattle off every time someone gets burned by relying 100% on a cloud service (either the software screws up user data or suspends their account, without recourse) without backups/alternates. Not your drive, not your data? I don’t know, I’m…
Imagine one of those short films from grade school with drunk driving or drug abuse or whatever, but with a severe data loss incident. Show it off to kids nationwide, they'd take the sentiment home to their parents. Imagine being a 40something and having your kid come home and say "Are our family photos backed up locally, redundantly on a rotating schedule with a tested disaster recovery plan?" "An untested disaster…
And boy, do they hate you owning files.
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I wish a company like synology who operates in this space would drive marketing hard to try and get through this barrier. We're at a point in the world now where billions of people rely on google/apple/microsoft/whatever to do their jobs, and bring that reliance home with them and store their treasured photos or music or videos on these services that could ban them without recourse without a second thought. Reminds m…
When you have a machine-learning thingy to do your managing for you it's a golden miracle. But every exception that you acknowledge and address degrades that miraculous functioning. Exponentially. So there's a strong incentive to let 99% accuracy be good enough. And to let the exception-cases go completely to oblivion.
80% of the effort should be spent on how to handle the thing the automatic system didn’t.
Alway keep a back up.
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When you have a machine-learning thingy to do your managing for you it's a golden miracle. But every exception that you acknowledge and address degrades that miraculous functioning. Exponentially. So there's a strong incentive to let 99% accuracy be good enough. And to let the exception-cases go completely to oblivion.
Edge cases aren't frequent enough to have a competitive edge of not having them. Too bad for you when you're the edge case. Backing people's files up for them on my USB storage makes me feel like the aircon repairman in the Terry Gilliam film, Brazil.