| 1 |
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
| 2 |
> Am Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:13:50PM +0000 schrieb Michael: |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> Good points. I am a big fan of having stuff locally as well, because I don’t |
| 6 |
> want to be dependent on a company’s servers and a working Internet connection. |
| 7 |
> But this mostly applies to my mobile device, because I don’t have a data plan |
| 8 |
> for mobile Internet. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
That is my reason. I already have some videos that are no longer |
| 13 |
available. Even references to the video ever existing is hard to find. |
| 14 |
If I lose them, I may never get them again. So, I try to keep copies |
| 15 |
and hang onto them. Plus, while I've been fortunate and have a good |
| 16 |
stable internet connection, both with DSL and fibre, I don't know what |
| 17 |
next year or even next month will bring. You add in all the censorship |
| 18 |
that is going on, it gets even worse. I have many videos that I |
| 19 |
downloaded from youtube that have been removed because of basically, a |
| 20 |
political position. The people running Youtube doesn't like the content |
| 21 |
so it was removed. Keep in mind, those videos were instructional and |
| 22 |
nothing about illegal activity or anything. They just don't like the |
| 23 |
content. It's also why other sites came along so people could post the |
| 24 |
exact same type of content. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
I don't always save everything but when I find a video that might be |
| 27 |
useful, whether it is about repairing my old washing machine, repairs to |
| 28 |
a firearm, planting trees from seeds or just a funny cat video, I save |
| 29 |
it if it has some future value. The bad thing, some channels that have |
| 30 |
been removed for a small amount of videos Youtube didn't like also had |
| 31 |
other videos removed as well. I've noticed entire channels disappear. |
| 32 |
I can't trust the people running video websites to allow content even |
| 33 |
for short term. Post something they don't like, true or not, they can |
| 34 |
and often do remove content and often remove entire channels. |
| 35 |
|
| 36 |
I don't trust my data to be on just one set of hard drives either, it's |
| 37 |
why I make backup copies. If one of my main drives lets the smoke out, |
| 38 |
I've got a backup to restore from. I wouldn't mind having two sets of |
| 39 |
backups and one day, I just may. I may end up with two NAS boxes, each |
| 40 |
a independent backup copy. May on alternate weeks or something. If |
| 41 |
possible, I wouldn't mind having backups where I can even go back in |
| 42 |
time a bit. Just in case I need a file that I deleted and then was |
| 43 |
deleted from the backups as well. |
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
If this Raspberry thing works and is fairly cheap, I may end up with two |
| 46 |
NAS boxes as backups and a NAS box as the actual storage itself. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
Since I can't trust people who run websites, I have to trust myself. |
| 49 |
Keep local copies, back those up just in case. |
| 50 |
|
| 51 |
Dale |
| 52 |
|
| 53 |
:-) :-) |
| 54 |
|
| 55 |
P. S. Seamonkey still doesn't automatically fetch emails. It's really |
| 56 |
annoying. :/ |
Archives