08-10-2022, 10:52 PM | #16 |
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Odd. When I access Amazon Drive through a web browser, I see 3 folders (Documents, Pictures and Videos). All of which have been empty since 2017. There is link to Amazon Photos which is a separate item and which had 4 photos in it.
AFAIR, the email I received said the same thing as the one quoted by @tubemonkey in the first post in this thread. Amazon Drive is being dumped but Amazon Photos will give unlimited photo storage and 5GB of video storage for Prime members. Without the Prime membership, it's 5GB for whatever combo of photos and videos you want to save. For now, I'm sticking with local backup media and the 1TB Microsoft gives me on OneDrive. Last edited by DNSB; 08-10-2022 at 10:57 PM. |
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Servers can (and are) on private networks, behind fire walls. I would guess better than 75% of MR users do not run a local (private) NAS or stand alone file Server (Excluding Calibre Content or similar). They rely on one of the many internet storage services, if they bother to backup/share that way. |
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08-11-2022, 11:54 AM | #19 |
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… that you have internet and is often useless without high speed broadband.
"Cloud" is just marketing speak for someone else's remote server on the Internet that you rent space/connectivity/ performance on instead of a direct line like in the 1960s. Often you have no idea of privacy (if the server owner scans the files) or of security (if 3rd parties can read or damage the files) or reliability (disaster planning, backups) or even where it is. It's just a hyped version of Internet based Hosting, which is a 30 year old thing. It can mean what ever the seller wants and allows them to be vague. |
08-11-2022, 12:30 PM | #20 |
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Everything technology-based is marketing speak. Why pick on this one?
(I'm thinking of Jon's overly pedantic post more than anything) Last edited by DiapDealer; 08-11-2022 at 12:37 PM. |
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I am reminded of that useful distinction pretty much every day here at MR. |
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May I ask how you differentiate between "technically correct" and "correct"? The popularity of the correctness? Ah, the joy of discussing precision in verbiage! |
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The precisian was correct. Pedants THINK they're correct, but are often wrong. For example, anyone who insists on the "split infinitive rule" is both pedantic and wrong. There are countless other examples proving his point - the etymological fallacy, the refusal to accept polysemy (seen above), railing against the epicene "they", etc., etc.. Pedants do specialise in believing themselves to be right, without bothering to actually be so. |
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08-11-2022, 02:31 PM | #25 |
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Can we get any further from the original topic than arguing about the meaning of words?
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That was my mistake. I didn't mean to suggest that there's a difference between correct and "technically correct". Correct is correct. I should have instead said "correct, but only the pedant stating the correction really cares." Last edited by DiapDealer; 08-11-2022 at 02:52 PM. |
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08-11-2022, 04:49 PM | #27 |
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Let's see you put a server in the cloud and expect it to stay there as it's too heavy and would fall and break on impact.
Actually, it's a server farm. That's the term used before someone decided to try and hijack the word cloud. Last edited by JSWolf; 08-11-2022 at 05:41 PM. |
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It is curious to note the OED carries the obsolete sense: "A mass of rock; a hill". And there is a still current sense: "Anything that obscures or conceals", and also: "Anything that darkens or overshadows with gloom". So I'm starting to think the use of Cloud for Internet storage could be apt indeed. |
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