Stefano MarinelliDec 4

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Show threademilianosandriDec 4
@stefano Totally agree and I wanna add that often you don't even to self host to Own Your Data, you can start small with stuff such as:
- backing up your photo on your desktop/laptop using the gold old cable and an app supporting PTP protocol (Windows and Mac have at least one preinstalled while on BSD and Linux you have many options to download from package repositories), no iCloud or Google Photos needed
- choosing DRM free ebooks, music and games and keeping a backup of them
- using Syncthing to sync your data across devices
Show threadJosef 'Jeff' SipekDec 4

@emilianosandri @stefano PTP? Precision Time Protocol? Are you by any chance talking about MTP? Media transfer protocol?

Regardless, you are 100% right that even a small step in the right direction is good.

Show threademilianosandri
@jeffpc @stefano
PTP is another protocol for transfering media, MTP extends it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
Picture Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia

Dec 4 at 5:08pmWeb
Show threadJosef 'Jeff' SipekDec 5
@emilianosandri @stefano Interesting. Thanks for the acronym expansion & link.