You shouldn't use "Cloud Storage" as your primary data storage, for
two reasons:
1. The company running that service might choose to discontinue
that service at virtually any time -- maybe unvoluntarily by
going bankrupt.
2. *You* forget about things.
That second issue is far more interesting than the first.
I'm currently cleaning up some old files on my webserver and I'm
fixing some old links. While doing so, I discovered files I have long
forgotten about. Had I used cloud storage for that, I wouldn't even
REMEMBER to create backups of those files. They would have been lost.
Among those files, there even was a HTML templating engine written in
PHP. I wrote that?! Apparently.
____________________
Oh, always put a date on stuff you create. Full ISO-8601 dates
including the year. Most of the time, this is trivial because I use
Git which stores the author and commit date automatically. But there
are some other small things without a date and I can't tell when the
hell I wrote that ...
____________________
That switch from Arch Linux to OpenBSD feels very familiar. It's like
when I switched from Windows to Linux on my desktop PC. I knew Windows
quite well and everything was strange on Linux. Now, I know Arch very
well and OpenBSD feels strange.
I must learn from this. I must keep an open mind. OpenBSD might feel
strange *now*, but maybe it'll be a second home in no time.
After all, it took me way too long to switch from Windows to Linux,
because everything was different and "weird". I did that switch in
2007, ten years ago. I could have done it ten years before that.
