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200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Note that Oracle free instances may be deleted at any time for no reason.

Also good luck creating an account in the first place. Their shitty fraud checking partner keeps rejecting perfectly legit credit cards even after they've been verified with 3D secure check.

They’ve scraped your biometrics and deem you as a non paying customer. They have no further value for you now.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trusting any single actor with your data is a bad idea, no matter if it's Oracle, Cloudflare or $CurrentInternetDarling.

Different levels of trust can be placed in different providers for different types of data. Oracle is however at the bottom of the list with regard to trust.

> Different levels of trust

Sufficiently different that you wouldn't backup your data at more locations? I don't think there is a single provider I'd trust that much, at least for data I really need to be still exist while I'm alive.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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This is fine as a technical exercise, but trusting Oracle is a very bad idea for numerous reasons if your data is not mirrored or backed up elsewhere.

We are talking about nextcloud so backup of everything is on all of your devices with are sync to it

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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I can’t even register an account at Oracle. I’ve tried many things and their 3rd party check refuses to consider me a good actor.

They successfully charged my card for $1 like a dozen times as I tried and failed to get past their check. At the time I wasn't even interested in the free stuff, I wanted to pay for an ARM VPS, and their verification system just wasn't satisfied with something. After getting frustrated I tried to sign up for Hetzner instead and they allowed me to register and spin up a VPS without even having any payment information on file, they just trusted that I would pay the invoice at the end of the month. Funny how different the two companies treat this stuff.

Re: 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files

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Is anyone still using Docker? I am, simply because I haven't "updated" my stack in a few years. But are there any remaining arguments for using Docker instead of Podman (sudo-less docker alternative)?

If you add yourself to the docker group you don't need to use sudo.
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