Daddy's Home by Tony Rubino and Gary Markstein for August 22, 2017

oh, har-dee-har-har

1st QotD: Do you use that cloud?

I don’t know why I need it??? Its on my phone, computer an such but I never had a need to use it.

I keep everything firmly planted on the ground.

I actually save to the cloud instead of to my hard drive….

$2 a month for more space than I need.

I can read a file, show someone any picture, etc, from my computer, when I’m out and about with my phone…

and my phone camera pics are on my computer before I get home.

More important… I’ve had a couple of hard drives, one in my computer and one external back up drive, that crashed and couldn’t be recovered.

I love my computer and hope it never crashes…

but if it ever does, I’d load my files onto my next one from my cloud account, with nothing lost,

unless it was from a program like my calendar, that saves data files in its own folder, and I forgot to back it up.

Yeah, sure, Google or Amazon or Microsoft could go away….

but you can easily have two different cloud accounts or keep an external drive too, if you trust those.

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now.

nope, 1T external hd, and important backed up on cd’s

Sure

Not only can he access all his files in the cloud… so can anyone else. And there is no public cloud service that is too big to fail or simply quit with little or no warning.

If you don’t store and backup locally then you are risking exposure and/or loss of your data. Giving up basic security for a little convenience is a questionable tactic, but far too popular with the masses and the MBA types.

I’ve saved data and pix to CDs for years; I make new ones every few months. I have a backup external drive, never had to use it. Yet.

that would be my kid- thinks he’s so funny :-p