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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hard copies. You should always keep hardcopies of your most important documents, financial records and certifications. Especially when users can be locked out of a cloud storage these days because an AI decided to flag their account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jesus invented thumbdrives and HDDs SSDs etc for this very reason, the cloud is just my offsite back up of that... having been kicked off "the cloud" by MS some years ago, fcuk those guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I recently learned that SSDs do not reliably store data for long amounts of time when unpowered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Same. But I still keep critical paper work in a fireproof safe, just in case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Last I checked it transmitted data via light 🤔