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An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card (www.techradar.com)
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An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.

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[–] 126 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Friendly advice: never put your entire life in the hands of a corporation!

Also, the migration from local storage to the "cloud" was never a good thing for us, and the small gain in convenience wasn't worth it, but most people don't seem to realize that.

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Cloud storage allows normal people to better realize a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy though, since it facilitates offsite storage.

    That being said, my very important stuff is backed up to more than one cloud provider, just in case.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Absolutely, then people go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud, and think that it's somehow fine.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    then people Microsoft go and delete the other copies leaving just the cloud,

    Line Microsoft Onedrive repeatedly forcefully and silently enabling on-demand constantly, then occasionally fucking up and deleting unsynced files

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Yeah stuff like that, but also the locally synced copy I would not trust no matter what as really any sync software can suddenly delete or corrupt files. Best to have at least 2 actual backups in place that are versioned and done daily or every few hours.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Personally I don’t think the tradeoff is worth while. I put nothing remotely personal on other peoples computers. I’d rather lose everything. But it is not actually that big a problem, my brother has a backup that I update once a month in his safe in his house, and I have his. Should be good enough.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    How long before an AI company buys all the hard drive supplies and foces us to use cloud storage?

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