Its 2050, local drives are outlawed. All devices have no writable storage and only a read only memory containing the basic os needed to connect to “the cloud”. In order to use your device, you need to pay a monthly subscription, to save your files, you need to pay a even higher subscription depending on your storage desires. If your cloud account has “undesirable” content, it is removed from your account without warning. If you stop paying your subscription, all data is immediately removed. All content you want to see is temporarily loaded to ram and is purged after you consume it. Ads require detection of your eyes looking at the display to progress. Biometric verification is required to use your device and any given device is tied to a person’s identity, can only be used by that person, and must be surrendered when no longer wanted. Welcome to the future!
I have made a decentralized storage protocol, and an implementation for it, anyone interested in checking it out?
I’m terrible at promoting things, but it’s FOSS and encrypted and quite takedown safe.
You can publish a website with it for example (update it as you like), or build a chat app onto it (I have an example), people with the “link” file can access it, nobody else can.
Hopefully a first step in sharing information freely.
Cheers
Valmond
I got a Synology NAS recently and it’s super nice…has a photo app, can be used as a VPN, you can even run docker images on it and run things like Pi Hole, etc. Really nice to have.
Neat! Do all of their devices work that way or just the more expensive ones?
You can still install “unsupported” on the ones that don’t support it officially: https://archive.synology.com/download/Package/Docker/20.10.3-1233
That being said it is indeed marginal on mine…CPU usage is often quite high.
There is no cloud, only someone elses computer.
Wdym you don’t want to pay billion dollar companies to keep your data hostage
I built my own cloud with blackjack and hookers
