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
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.
I mean I’m not saying it doesn’t offer things to you. That’s why I asked. I think maybe what’s obvious to you just isn’t obvious to me because I don’t do stuff like that. Like my life really would not change that much if I lived it in the 90s instead of today. I just don’t do much stuff that requires me to have access to files on the fly, or show them to other people. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever needed to show someone else a digital file in my entire life that I was not emailing. If I was going to see someone in person I just print it out. And even thats rare.
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.
I mean I’m not saying it doesn’t offer things to you. That’s why I asked. I think maybe what’s obvious to you just isn’t obvious to me because I don’t do stuff like that. Like my life really would not change that much if I lived it in the 90s instead of today. I just don’t do much stuff that requires me to have access to files on the fly, or show them to other people. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever needed to show someone else a digital file in my entire life that I was not emailing. If I was going to see someone in person I just print it out. And even thats rare.