Amazon Drive launched “unlimited storage” back in ~2015 and almost immediately backtracked their promises. Now they’re shutting it down entirely at the end of next year.
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Every time I think “running an at-home datacenter is surely crazy talk”, there seems to be another SaaS brought to you by MegaCorp, Inc. getting sunsetted.
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How do we continue to push online services, subscription models, and near constant online connections to normal users without showing them they can trust anything to last 10 years?
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Replying to @meddlin_dev @EposVox
Um, you don't. It's a bad model. indieweb.org/site-deaths

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Replying to @aaronpk @EposVox
With that link, I’m assuming you mean “don’t trust them”—which is my point. Yet their business model(s) claim we can, and worse…should. This gets nastier when you introduce IoT and right-to-repair to the conversation.
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The mindset of using modern technology is only trusting it here and now but always having backups and alternatives
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