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Old December 29th 18, 09:20 PM posted to alt.privacy.anon-server,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-10
Roger Blake[_2_]
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Default Excellent article about Linux

On 2018-12-29, Peter Kozlov wrote:
If you have an Android phone and you take photos, those photos upload to
Google and your storage on the local device is not hampered by the
storage limitations of you local device.


I don't have a smartphone, Android or otherwise.

Google's excellent AI is the result of cloud computing analysis which is
far greater than the mobile device itself.


I'm not interested in having a device that listens to everything around
it and uploads it.

When someone sends you mail, the cloud routes it all and places it in
your inbox. The next time your device polls for new email, you then
retrieve it.


I've been managing mail servers for decades. What you insist on
referring to as "the cloud" as though it is some magical thing
is just a collection of servers.

On my iPhone, I have access to 50 million songs. I don't have to store
them all.


I'm not interested in that. I prefer to store my own stuff rather than
trust it to someone else's server and network.

like a song others are suggested and in general it's good at picking
songs I will like. That's a benefit of could computing.


This and all of the things you refer to are simply exchanging data
with remote servers. That's what we did in the 1970s using terminals
connecting to computer service bureaus. (I was there.)

When I request an Uber, the cloud calculates all the drivers near me and


"The cloud" again is just someone else's server, or collection of servers.

You can call this market speak if you like. I say you're wrong about
that, but I don't see that at matters at all anyway. It's a benefit
offered to everyone. If you're excited about this opportunity and wish
to downplay it, that's your choice. I like "cloud" computing.


It is market speak, and I do not see it as a benefit. I prefer to keep
as much as possible under my own control.

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