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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by dangus on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:00AM (#38432302)
The average consumer never backed anything up. They don’t have time nor willingness to test restorations.

In that respect, cloud storage was supposed to be a major step up for the average person.

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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by BSDobelix on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:25PM (#38436059)
Lived in the time where diskettes where normal, everyone had a "real" backup, those where normal consumer too.

Wanna make a bet that OP makes now real backup's?

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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by dangus on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:40PM (#38438777)
In the time of the diskettes, less than half of households owned a computer. We can't really compare the technical competency of today's user with one from the mid-90's.

Figure 1: https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/comp-internetuse2016.pdf

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Re:Google Drive has lost user data by BSDobelix on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @03:38AM (#38456991)
>We can't really compare the technical competency of today's user with one from the mid-90's.

True, like checking the pressure in car tires, but if you loose your data once "competency" will increase ;)

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