[optimalquiet]

And this is why, as a hobbyist, I’m very skeptical of, for lack of a better term, the consumer cloud. We’re not talking about AWS here, we’re talking about companies’ servers (that are actually AWS on the back-end) that they use to offer services to consumers. They insist on calling that “cloud” because everything has to be confusing, I guess. And I think that distinction gets lost in the translation between hobbyists/power users and IT professionals/software engineers. I think those two groups often miscommunicate, because they use the same terms in different ways, because their worlds are so different.

It’s not about on-premises vs cloud for corporations, it’s about control over your data and what Apple’s marketing once called “your digital life” (before they went all-in on cloud) for consumers, for normal people, whose recourse when a company does something wrong isn’t “hire the best lawyers in the business and sue them” but “get screwed.” I don’t care what corporations do with their infrastructure, my concern is my own digital life, which is more important to me than the market cap of FAANG.