@nixCraft Make sure to never lose anything important, back up all your files onto a micro SD card and implant it directly into your left buttcheek to never ever lose it!

@nixCraft why was she locked out? 🤔 I don't want to pay Wired for that knowledge

@nixCraft The cloud version of Job 1:21

@nixCraft choose portability. Choose filters.

@nixCraft few words, Proton Mail, Proton Drive. I would rather pay 13 eur monthly than have anything on Google. I have gmail only as “spam” email, whenever someone asks for email for dodgy registration he receives gmail, and there is over 100k unread mails

@nixCraft I’m living in post communist country and remember what it was back then. And things like this sound very very worrying even though we’re not talking about strictly political phenomenon here. Those actions are identical with the political censorship and that is terrifying.

@nixCraft “Ðe cloud” is not *personal* computing. Do not rely on it existing tomorrow even if yesterday everything was fine :blobcatcoffee:

@nixCraft syncthing. I'm in love with you https://syncthing.net/

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Should have just installed MS-DOS and write books using WordStar.

Only upload them to the cloud when needed.

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I've been reading all of the discourses of the Buddha and putting my notes in Google Docs for a number of advantages.

Thankfully, I also do monthly backups of my computer which includes downloading a copy of my Google Docs and putting them on an external drive along with my computer data.

@nixCraft moral of the story - don't use any Google products

@nixCraft I have a flash drive I keep with me CONSTANTLY in my phone case that I save things to. (Mostly my cross stitch patterns that I've drafted out, but I thought it may apply as a suggestion in this case.) I also Bluetooth finished work over to two different devices & save them to the SD cards on those devices. I know cloud storage is convenient, but I NEVER trust it due to hackers & potential glitches that could cause me to lose valuable work. Maybe an option to try? Just thought I'd share

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How high would her word count have to be to go beyond the capacity of a resonable usb pen drive? We are not talking about 8k video files here. Backing up important work has been drilled into me from IT class day dot. To trust so much to something completely beyond her control is just daft.

@nixCraft This is why I use LibreOffice, running on Linux, on my own hardware AND make regular backups.

When my work goes online, its through Draft2Digital, for publishing. Works in progress (WIP) do not get put online.

Reminds me of a critique exchange with another writer. I was super angry when I found out they put my work in Google Docs and then shared a link back with their notes as comments, because I don't post WIP online.

Google Docs has always been a problem in search of a solution.

@nixCraft sad storey. But it could happen today with Win11 and Word too.