Morning Thoughts: I have never used cloud backups as it always felt weird to have things not in physical form. Maybe because I grew up using external drives to back up my computer before the days of the Internet.

But I do kinda understand the appeal of putting everything somewhere and having it even sort for you, use its AI to catagorise, and more. I have a week of photos I need to get from my phone, camera, and friends share drives of various kinda they took of me, and get them downloaded to my computer, sorted into appropriate files, delete the blurry ones, edit the fancy ones (i dont actually do much post processing, I try for Straight Out of Camera, but it still takes time). I also keep a journal so things need written and printed too. It feels like a daunting task.

But at the end of the day, my files are my own. I am not beholden to anyone. No company is scanning my face who has a name to go with it, constantly. I have beautiful scrapbooks full of stories that if even computers were to die tomorrow, I have lasting memories which are fun to look back on.

Nothing is lost to the mess of random data, sorted by an unfeeling unthinking algorithm, owned by a company who would love to sell my soul to the highest bidder.

My thoughts, my memories, remain mine.

The joy of that is priceless.

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