uRStillfree

Yeah, this.

Keep personal media metadata and download it again, maybe, but back it up?

Better still, only store what you’ll watch and delete it.

I only backup scans of truly useful legal documents, photos go to the cloud.

Everything contemporary, disposable pop culture is “backed up” online from my perspective.

I really don’t understand why, given contemporary patterns, we have Linux monoliths anymore.

Surely for servers and sysadmins, building out ones own OS artifact would be trivial in this cloud world.

Perhaps there’s some disruption to be had; Gentoo As A Service.

You fail to see it.

But the laws are very clear on it.

Perhaps you’re not looking?

I know it’s hip in the tech scene to wave off politics, but the rest of physical reality still exists.

You’re still free to speak on other people’s property (computer servers).

Just not YouTube’s.

America is built on private property rights.

Americans LOVE to go on about freedom while selling themselves, their time, body, ideas.

Say what you want. There is no physical law or social that obliges others to carry your message or submit to your expectations.

Change the ownership model.