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Originally Posted by halloleo
Now I want to consolidate these two lists and go only with one of these tools forward. What makes more sense: Online or local?
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Local.
It's impossible to assure a service will exist tomorrow or that you always have Internet. Also you can be arbitrarily banned from a site. For instance people have lost access to their Kindle Library on Amazon because Amazon decided to many physical items returned and closed the account. Passing note to random Kindle users: Do download to PC and remove DRM.
I've had server and disc fails locally in last 30 years, but only lost one file (1994 and misplaced floppy before backup*). I've 35 yo floppies, 30 yo video tapes and 20+ yo HDDs that are still readable.
Our fibre was down for two weeks (badly done connection in street), though fortunately I still had a microwave link. Mobile/Cell Internent access is unreliable.
Also privacy and security as well as up time. Major data centres have had poorer up time than my own computing in last 30 years, even including local power cuts, though laptops have a built in UPS
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[* Ironically the only Fan-Fic I ever wrote; it was for my son. I've older 5.25" floppies but no working 1.2M drive currently]