qwerty3656
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Amazon has unlimited photo storage if your a prime user (photos are by far our largest data hog).
That’s reassuring. I have two subfolders with my sensitive info that I won’t upload, but everything else can go on the cloud. When I really stop and think about it, most of my files aren’t going to help anyone or harm me…might as well use OneDrive since it’s included in our Microsoft 365 subscription.
Well, ... sort of. The pendulum has swung a number of times in the intervening years. Back then it was called "time sharing" and the terminals might be mechanical teletype machines. All processing and storage was on the central machine. As technical capabilities of have grown, the debate morphed slightly into "dumb terminals vs smart terminals." Now that our terminals are pretty darn smart, the debate still rages with the terminology morphed again to "cloud" as in "cloud storage" and "cloud processing." But the terms of the debate are still about the same: What work and what storage should occur on each end of the wire? Having lived through all of that, my conclusion is that there is no universal answer.... Centralized computing is a throwback to the 70's during the days of mainframe computers. ...
Now that our terminals are pretty darn smart, the debate still rages with the terminology morphed again to "cloud" as in "cloud storage" and "cloud processing."
Occam's razor leads me to the conclusion that they are primarily a low-priced tool to attack Apple's dominance in the public education space. That's simpler to me than a conspiracy theory.... These are Trojan horses that gather information about you and your habits to sell to third parties. ...