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1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 11:43:02 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

   It bothers me that, because bits of the Norwegian Internet were wonky today (had issues reaching websites on both WiFi and 4G), I wasn't able to view my starred locations on Google Maps, or add new locations.

   It's all a bit too dependent on the cloud. There should at least be the option of local storage, and preferably the option of not storing anything in the cloud at all, and just syncing against your computer (or a home NAS device) instead.

   1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 11:51:31 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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      These cloud/SaaS systems are only beneficial to the vendors, not the users. Yes, they are free, but where are the paid versions with the same exact functionality? In theory, a disk drive attached to my router could store a database, and there'd be a set of standards in place to auto-configure Dynamic DNS (ISP service) and static port forwards, so you could log into it from various software programs.

      1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 11:52:23 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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         You could use the cloud for one thing: Off-site backups of your data store (with end-to-end encryption, of course).

         1. 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Oct-2018 11:53:43 EDT 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account

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            The only reason we don't have this stuff is because capitalism doesn't offer the incentives for it.