In the days of iTunes, I realized if I hit shuffle, I could listen for 47 days without repeating a song. Except iTunes did repeat, but that is another story ...
LOL! Oh, the comedy just doesn’t quit! So, we have someone here who thinks relying on streaming services for your media needs is the solution... facepalm! This after already presumably being aware of how material that has been granted access to before, can suddenly be revoked, music or film rights disputes, windows of availability and a thousand other scenarios. No thanks. I like to own what I have, access forever, with nobody having a sayso. That’s not even to mention, tons of albums that I have which are rare, or bootlegs or concerts and generally stuff that’s not available for streaming, period. How do I stream that, stream fan? LOL. And of course, the ever present problem of having to have uninterruptable internet access. Wow, this is feeble.
I had become a music archiver, not a listener. If you are a videographer and that is your active library, cloud is probably not for you. If you are archiving and storing at your house, that is a dangerous endeavor, as drives fail, theft, natural disaster etc.
You archive, sorry, that’s not me. And yes, being active in media creation means cloud is not for me - so what’s the point of your whole rant, when that’s all I’m pointing out - that NO it is not the case that we should all just move online. It’s not. It never will be for many of us. Case closed right there. And of course I have backups and safe storage solutions.
I and many millions have access to Internet, not an issue for me.
It never goes down? It never slows down suddenly while streaming? No glitches ever? Quick, report a miracle to the nearest church, because what you found is not of this earth. When editing, there are critical situations where you’d be a fool to rely exclusively on online access - but feel free to tell everyone how to structure their workflow, even if you don’t have the faintest idea of their requirements.
There is no way you have a computer that stores 30TB and has battery access to consume that, so if power goes out, you are same boat as if internet goes out.
Huh? I have external drives, I think I’ve said that, only a hundred times, and if power goes out, I have robust UPS solutions - which is a must for anyone in my line of work. Boy, making assumptions here about stuff while apparently knowing nothing about.
My most precious secrets are already out there.
IRS, TurboTax, Banking, Health Records, Credit Cards, they are all already in the Cloud because I can access them 24x7 from the internet. I didn't put them there, the Companies did. You don't opt in or out, your data is out there. Way more people have your data already.
This is another myth that only you can protect your data at home. Your data is out there my friend.
LOL! I’ll tell my clients all that next time they have me sign papwork to protect their intellectual rights and not have footage or media released without authorization. They expect me to protect their stuff in confidentiality, and I have the same expectation for my own material, but sure, I’ll keep in mind your nostrum that it’s all useless and the legal stuff is inconsequential. Oh, btw. who said this was just about “secrets”, and not about material integrity and access? Wow. Know nothing, but make strong statements.
Disagree. Travel to Hawaii, need access to something. Where is it, oh, in the Safe at home. Security another myth, you home is less secure than a data center.
Gee, nobody ever has access to their NAS once they leave home, uses a VPN or understands remote work. And it is you who claims that I’m technologically behind the times. This is embarrassing.
Also, consumer grade hardware is prone to fail more than enterprise grade.
Good thing then, that given that media is important both for my work and personal use, I use enterprise grade solutions, but of course, this is a lot of nonsense because the grade of hardware is not how you protect your data. You protect your data through redundancy and backups - just a tip for you, since you appear not very technologically advanced.
Computers are used to create and consume. I'm a programer, I create more than I consume. I have need to have access to what I'm creating prior to releasing to a server where others can consume.
Sounds like you use computers to consume media, different use case, but your logic in saving at home around security, peace of mind, etc, is not congruent with the advances in technology that have occurred over the last decade.
Your practices are not modern, in that you can not access your 30TB from anywhere but within 6 feet of a spinning disk.
I don't find that comical at all. I only wonder why you are not taking advantage of advancements made in this space.
So many assumptions, so clearly wrong, so lacking in imagination as to the use scenarios of others. Yawn. Boy, that’s rather a lot of straw you used to construct that man. And that paragraph says everything about the strength of the case of how ”everyone should move online” - ‘nough said.
