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by csixty4 3586 days ago
The most obvious reason is just casually glancing around my office there's two PCs, two Macs, and two phones. Any of them could be in use at a time, and often the only thing that makes this convenient is having them all access the same data on a server somewhere.

Also, I can't lose data on a server if my personal equipment is stolen, damaged, or has a catastrophic hardware or filesystem issue (like hit my Mac a couple months ago). Odds are the server is running much better hardware than I can afford, with much better redundancies.