Norwegian Dropbox rival Jottacloud is finally working on a desktop app for Linux. Jottacloud, run by Jotta Group AS, has been around since 2008, offering
Not a diehard fan or heavy user of it anymore but it is, frankly, weird you’d even need to ask.
It’s available where ever you have a connection. You can’t forget it or not realize you would need it. It’s just always available.
It’s off site if something happens at home.
Assuming you trust them, your data is safe. It’s not going to fail. It’s managed by someone paid to keep data safe for you. Economies of scale let them have more redundancy and verification than you. No stray atomic partical is going to flip a bit while it is on their servers.
You can be lazy about it. I keep a working NAS, an older, slower NAS I back up that NAS to, and gave family offsite another NAS that I also back up to. I have many backup tasks and don’t rely on cloud storage. However, I need to, at least on occasion, make sure everything is still working… or I can fuck something up if I don’t property document or pay attention when doing anything major. Wouldn’t need to worry about that if I just used the cloud.
I guess I’m just not like super plugged in? Like your point about it being available anywhere. I keep my mp3s synced between my laptop and desktop so I can listen to music from both but I don’t use it outside the house. In the car I have little sd cards that have music in them that I plug in. And the radio. Mostly when I’m out and about I don’t need the internet or anything I have stored on my computers. What is it that you need access to all the time? As for data backups the only thing I really NEED to have is my passwords and I don’t trust the cloud with that. I do backup like my music library and stuff too but I just put it on an external drive. If I was paranoid about like losing it because my house burned down or something I would just stick a copy of those drives into a safety deposit box for cold storage. I’m genuinely curious what things you keep in the cloud that you need access to on the fly like that.
I don’t keep them in the cloud because every company these days is either horrendous or one acquisition away from being horrendous. I use a VPN and can access anything I need from my homelab where ever I am. However, if I didn’t feel so negatively about the companies just keeping things in the cloud would be easier.
Personally, I guess you could call me “super plugged in” if you want and just leave it at that. I use a lot of technology both professionally and as a hobby. I don’t need most things all the time, it’s just nice to have whatever I want, or on rare occasions need, whenever and where ever. Notes, records, documents, music, audiobooks, etc. Someone asks me about a recipe, I have it to share immediately. I get delayed for 20 or 30 minutes or have a long drive? Continue my audiobook or listen to music. It’s convenient to have something and be able to actually use it whenever.
Similarly, I have so many spare sets of tools in different places if I need to fix something for myself or someone else. Yet I still, somehow, find myself without the right tool sometimes and that really bothers me. I want to be helpful and useful. I could solve a problem, I have the tool, but I don’t have it with me in the moment. The same feeling hits me when I don’t have access to my digital stuff, hence the VPN.
My point isn’t “OMG how could you even live without the cloud?” I just don’t understand how you can pretend it offers no obvious convenience.
Not a diehard fan or heavy user of it anymore but it is, frankly, weird you’d even need to ask.
I guess I’m just not like super plugged in? Like your point about it being available anywhere. I keep my mp3s synced between my laptop and desktop so I can listen to music from both but I don’t use it outside the house. In the car I have little sd cards that have music in them that I plug in. And the radio. Mostly when I’m out and about I don’t need the internet or anything I have stored on my computers. What is it that you need access to all the time? As for data backups the only thing I really NEED to have is my passwords and I don’t trust the cloud with that. I do backup like my music library and stuff too but I just put it on an external drive. If I was paranoid about like losing it because my house burned down or something I would just stick a copy of those drives into a safety deposit box for cold storage. I’m genuinely curious what things you keep in the cloud that you need access to on the fly like that.
I don’t keep them in the cloud because every company these days is either horrendous or one acquisition away from being horrendous. I use a VPN and can access anything I need from my homelab where ever I am. However, if I didn’t feel so negatively about the companies just keeping things in the cloud would be easier.
Personally, I guess you could call me “super plugged in” if you want and just leave it at that. I use a lot of technology both professionally and as a hobby. I don’t need most things all the time, it’s just nice to have whatever I want, or on rare occasions need, whenever and where ever. Notes, records, documents, music, audiobooks, etc. Someone asks me about a recipe, I have it to share immediately. I get delayed for 20 or 30 minutes or have a long drive? Continue my audiobook or listen to music. It’s convenient to have something and be able to actually use it whenever.
Similarly, I have so many spare sets of tools in different places if I need to fix something for myself or someone else. Yet I still, somehow, find myself without the right tool sometimes and that really bothers me. I want to be helpful and useful. I could solve a problem, I have the tool, but I don’t have it with me in the moment. The same feeling hits me when I don’t have access to my digital stuff, hence the VPN.
My point isn’t “OMG how could you even live without the cloud?” I just don’t understand how you can pretend it offers no obvious convenience.