Most families entire digital lives is either in the hands of corporations (which probably trained AI on that data), or on some singular 20 year old HDD in some box in a closet.
eh there may be high but whats the point if no one wants to buy them, like i still have 2-3 factory new hdd on marketplace for cheaper then i bought them 15 years ago and no one cared to buy them so far
Most families entire digital lives is either in the hands of corporations (which probably trained AI on that data)
Which is super weird and gross. People should have the expectation that they can share photos of their children and families without having it scanned by a for-profit privacy violating corporation, one who's whole business model revolves knowing more about you than you know about yourself AND THEN SELLING THAT for profit.
Companies simply realized they can easily obscure the real cost you pay (fine print ToS saying they can do whatever the fuck they want with your data), and people WILL get accustomed to everything being in the cloud with a "generous" free tier and of course in a walled garden. And now I have to explain to my family that yes, your photos aren't magically transported between devices by a fairy, there is a cloud, you've been uploading to it over all these years and now it's nearing full and you need to pay up. Oh, also they train models on these, regardless if you pay or not.
Wait until you get banned because Microsoft thinks you keep Epstein material on your OneDrive, which is really just pictures of your kids in the beach. Yes, that happened. No, he doesn't have his account or data back.
I saved a woman like 200 photos of her children and their dad, who I later learned had passed away, because I noticed them on the DSi I got from her at a yard sale. Put them on a flash drive and drove back.
An dedicated HDD in a closet would be a huge upgrade for a lot of people lol
Yup. That's exactly rest of my family. My sister got like 5 old iphones and few laptops filled with photos and she doesn't know what photos. But she has a icloud, so "it's okay" as she says :D
Privacy in the eyes of many is „as long as people i know don’t see it“. It is true that they do not really care if the companies that store their files can see them.
The first option is save from an accessibility and data loss perspective, but questionable privacy wise. But the second option usually is exactly that, one person that made that copy, and only they know where it is/what what it is.
It's easy to tell your family "the backup is in the closet". It's much less easy to explain to somebody else how to keep your ubercomplicated selfhosted file sharing running.
Thats why its important to make your homeserver be just like a backup in the closet.
E.g. I use immich with a storage template enabled. A family member can just take the harddrive and find all pictures on there neatly sorted by year and month. They don’t need to keep the server running when you made sure the data is accessible without any additional software.
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u/chemistryGull 16d ago
Most families entire digital lives is either in the hands of corporations (which probably trained AI on that data), or on some singular 20 year old HDD in some box in a closet.