[oofbey]

How many people here rely on Google Docs? I have for many things for years. How many of you regularly back up your Google Docs? I have taken a Google Takeout a few times over the years. But no. Why? Because I have never heard of Google “losing” docs or emails or anything like that except when a user deliberately deletes things. Same with AWS S3. It just doesn’t lose files. Ops mistakes and hackers can make it lose files but the tech is rock solid.

I think it’s very reasonable to assume cloud services don’t need to be backed up, because many of them are based on extremely reliable technologies.

Obviously mistakes like this can happen, and if they’d had a backup OP would be better off.

But I can’t help but think that there’s a lot of shadenfreude here from people who dislike AI at seeing somebody suffer for having a strong reliance on it.

[em-bee]

the threat here is not "cloud losing your data". the threat is "cloud denying access to your data". it's like when someone breaks up with you and you still have stuff at their house. good luck getting that back.