This should be painfully obvious to anyone who spends a second thinking about it. It frustrates me to no end that people just trust these “services” blindly, when they can at any time, for any reason, take away your access with no recourse. Why do people accept these terms? Why do they trust companies that are not on their side? I struggle to understand it. Cloud should only be used as a backup - and not the only one at that. Is this an issue with computer literacy? Is it that people don’t understand how data is saved?
Is this an issue with computer literacy? Is it that people don’t understand how data is saved?
I think it’s a combination of computer illiteracy and familiarity.
Most people only know what they’re familiar with. For the average person cloud services are everywhere and it seems like everyone is using them so it doesn’t seem unusual to use them. These same people don’t have enough knowledge about computers to understand the risks of these services or, more importantly, that there are alternatives.
In addition, even if they have the knowledge, most people would rather pay Google $20/mo than to buy a $500 Network Attached Storage machine for their home network.
I don’t want to be the old guy, but back in my day… if you wanted to watch a movie or listen to a song you had to figure out how to get it, how to play it, how to connect your TV/speakers, etc. The fruits of technology were available for anybody who cared to spend a little bit of time to learn.
Now, there’s zero incentive to try to figure anything out because it’s much easier to install Spotify with a single button than it is to install Airsonic or Jellyfin. Streaming services never have to worry about competing with self-hosting because they’re ensuring that nobody needs to learn anything about computers.
So much of our lives are touched by computers that it seems irresponsible not to understand how they work.
This should be painfully obvious to anyone who spends a second thinking about it. It frustrates me to no end that people just trust these “services” blindly, when they can at any time, for any reason, take away your access with no recourse. Why do people accept these terms? Why do they trust companies that are not on their side? I struggle to understand it. Cloud should only be used as a backup - and not the only one at that. Is this an issue with computer literacy? Is it that people don’t understand how data is saved?
I think it’s a combination of computer illiteracy and familiarity.
Most people only know what they’re familiar with. For the average person cloud services are everywhere and it seems like everyone is using them so it doesn’t seem unusual to use them. These same people don’t have enough knowledge about computers to understand the risks of these services or, more importantly, that there are alternatives.
In addition, even if they have the knowledge, most people would rather pay Google $20/mo than to buy a $500 Network Attached Storage machine for their home network.
I don’t want to be the old guy, but back in my day… if you wanted to watch a movie or listen to a song you had to figure out how to get it, how to play it, how to connect your TV/speakers, etc. The fruits of technology were available for anybody who cared to spend a little bit of time to learn.
Now, there’s zero incentive to try to figure anything out because it’s much easier to install Spotify with a single button than it is to install Airsonic or Jellyfin. Streaming services never have to worry about competing with self-hosting because they’re ensuring that nobody needs to learn anything about computers.
So much of our lives are touched by computers that it seems irresponsible not to understand how they work.