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by 8bitsrule 211 days ago
>Imagine a world where your data isn’t trapped in distant data centers. Instead, it’s close to home—in a secure data wallet or pod, under your control.

Imagine a world where all rivers flow north, the wind always blows from the East, and noone is a schemer.

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> The brakemen have to tip their hats

And the railway bulls are blind

There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too

You can paddle all around it in a big canoe In the big rock candy mountain

(I agree, anyway...)

Imagine the river overflow and your secure pod goes to the bottom of the sea...

Last month, my phone decide to die. Luckly most of my info is in the cloud.

I'm so old fashioned I still keep all the data I have and want to share in my wallet. Hasn't failed yet, no battery included.
I backup my phone regularly without involving clouds.
"That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
Imagine the 90s? It isn't that unrealistic.