@Lydie@tech.lgbtRepeating an important PSA for the 10th time. And now, this is more important than ever. Is your data in the US Cloud? If it is, get it downloaded local. See something neat online? Download that shit.
@Lydie What are your tools of choice? I have been using a selfhosted LinkWarden for a long time and it works well. I also have it on my list to check out Hoarder.
@nhgeek @Lydie I recommend #NextCloud running locally. You can then set up encrypted storage onsite or off-site
@Lydie For web pages, I can absolutely recommend the SingleFile extension to Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ Once configured, it's literally a single click to save the *current state* of the current page as a *single*, self-contained HTML file which will contain the original URL and the date and time when it was saved, and which can be viewed without any Internet access at all.
GREAT for preserving stuff locally.
@Lydie As for um-hum Cloud, I generally treat any cloud storage as untrusted.
It's great for a tertiary copy (especially when coupled with good encryption) or for interacting with others; but it should *never* be the primary way to access anything you want to keep.
Yes, I'm old-school like that.
@Lydie use the SingleFile extension to dump plain html files (that actually render correctly, bereft of JavaScript nonsense) and put them somewhere safe https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Any advice for hosting providers in the EU?
To clarify, physical storage can only go so far and copies outside of US jurisdiction can be helpful, potentially.
So storing data on servers physically located in the EU (or even Asia somewhere) might also be a good idea.
@Lydie I never thought about that but it’s the fascist point in your list that scares me…and I may need to get a backup of my photos on iCloud and my files on Dropbox.
@Lydie Come to think of it, I'm wondering how good my old DVDRs are (I don't really have M-discs, but I believe I have some Taiyo Yuden discs somewhere.) I think you have a good point about doing that with some of the more important stuff. Though it sure would be nice if I had access to something larger...
@Lydie what’s your suggested setup for someone starting as a new data hoarder 
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@Lydie This can't be repeated too often.
But nowadays most don't understand.
@Lydie@jmovs lol nice!
@Lydie Currently building my Garage cluster to get off the clouds. Already cancelled OneDrive/365, DropBox and Google also gonna go. Just takes time, right now I have two 12TB drives just waiting for me...
@Lydie Not really their fault in this case, but I still wonder why so many insisted on trusting Apple so much and putting so much of everything into Apple services that could quickly and easily turn overnight or, worse, subtly and sneakily do stuff that's hard to catch (which I still suspect they're probably already doing. Especially as they too try to force pretending that LLMs are "AI" on everyone.)
@Lydie@nazokiyoubinbou Not Apple's fault for sure. But fascism demands spying and this is an example if why I have this PSA about not trusting the cloud, ever