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Originally Posted by latepaul
Most of modern* life requires reliance on others in some form or other. I don't grow my own food or make my own clothes. My plumbing and sewerage need to be connected to larger systems to work. My heating requires either gas or electricity to be supplied to my house. I own a car but I don't maintain the roads I drive on. My money is the form an entry in a bank's ledger. Even my cash only has value because of a system I am only a tiny tiny part of. I didn't build this PC (much less mine/extract/refine the materials needed).
Obviously I could go on.
My point is not to get this thread dragged into P&R territory, my point is that we rely on systems, institutions and people who could let us down all the time. And we do it because in most cases these other entities are better at doing whatever it is than we'd be on our own - otherwise I'd be wearing a sack as a smock and eating nettle soup or some such.
So by all means avoid using cloud services if you prefer to but don't think it's any more risky for those of us that do use them than say posting a letter and expecting it to get to its destination. Which is to say it works well enough most of the time and you can mitigate the risks somewhat (but not entirely).
(*i.e. post industrial revolution)
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Yeah, but doing your own backups/storage is way easier than laying your own roads or most of those other things you listed. The cloud thing is more of a luxury than a necessity.
I grow food. I tried sewing. Good thing Walmart hasn't gone under or I'd be walking around in a towel with armholes.