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"The cloud" is just another word for "someone else's computer". They offer some pretty useful services, but you can get most of them by running free services on your own computers in your own home.

One of my best purchases was a Synology DS1520+. The only problem is the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). Now that I no longer have a wife, it's perfect. I'm at 16TB available (2 6TB, 3 4TB drives), more than half used, mostly on music and movies, with snapshots included. I spend $100 about every 18 months to replace a degraded drive, and that's it. (Started with in computer RAID, moved to a 2 bay Synology unit, and then to the five bay I have now.) You absolutely need to get a NAS rated drive, a desktop drive will last under a year with the constant vibration in my experience.

I don't need iCloud, I don't need OneDrive, I just use Backblaze to back up TB of data (already encrypted with a client side key before it gets sent) to Amazon Glacier (just in case.) Dealing with the TLS certificates and DNS names is a bit of a pain in the arse, but like I said, there's no WAF involved, so I can deal with it.

I think consolidating HomeKit, ZigBee, Z-Wave, etc., is the next frontier. Now with Matter, it will get easier, but there will still be outliers like Hue that require their own hubs, even with a unified standard. I'll buy Wyze and similar open standard kit, I have too many f*%king apps as it is.

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Posted by pheroy

Raleigh, NC

Member since Oct 2006

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Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:14 pm to LemmyLives

Hmmm, a couple of things in general in response to various pieces of this thread.

Big data is not about storing your local media or whatnot that is relevant to only you. It's multiple types of data across multiple domains, and brought together and connected in ways it wasn't originally. Tying together identifying bits of info on an IP address to surface a person, then connecting that to various info to create patterns. Some of you know this. Anyway, that's a very different thing than just "the cloud" which can replicate local storage on someone else's computer (but gives you professional, guaranteed services like robust backup).

Re: smart devices and object recognition. I am more interested in something that can tell me about the shite I buy that I DON'T need. Or shite I already bought and need to use. That jar of Thai or whatever paste to make a curry that has been lurking for a couple of years now.