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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

those aren't the same boomers.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same. My dad worked as a call-out PC technician (among other things) and now can't grasp cloud storage.

"I don't want to save it somewhere else, I want to save it on my computer, but all my computers."

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I agree with your dad. Everything saved to the cloud is a privacy and usability nightmare. Many people have lost data forever because cloud services misplaced their files.