Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
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You're sorta one of the "[un]lucky 10000" today. Basically everyone is constantly on the edge of losing all their digital stuff and most people don't even know it. You might take this as a warning to do better in the future, but even there most people would fail, I'd say.
There's maybe 0.1% of people who know what "3-2-1" means who are only risking a week's/month's worth of stuff at all times.
~ signed, someone who should get their backups in order
I will definitely back up better in the future. But that also requires buying a bit of storage and I'm flat broke.
I know what 3-2-1 means and have copies of my photo folders, but like a fucking idiot I hadn't backed up the phone in years. It's 250gb so felt like a hassle.
Well, lesson learned. Only 4 years of personal history lost. Oh well. Some of it might be on whatsapp convos or smth
Apple gets shit on constantly but when I dropped my phone into a lake I bought a new one and was up and running with everything an hour later.
I have had auto backups on for Google photos for a long time and didn't even realize it. One day my phone died and I was really sad because I had no many photos and videos on there for years and years.
Well I bought a new phone and was surprised and elated to see all my old photos appear on my new phone. After that I ended up paying extra for the additional cloud storage for my backups. 10001% worth it.
People shit on both Google and Apple, but this cloud backup shit is super convenient.