 Now by the most worrisome development I see among zoomers in using computers is the fact that there are so many people who use sometimes exclusively cloud services to consume product to do computing and stuff like that what I mean is People no longer even have files on their own computers. They don't have their own documents. They don't have their own pictures They don't have their own music or movies. They don't have anything else. They use instead services like Google Drive Facebook Spotify Netflix all of these services through which they either put their data or they get data and Like it's we're getting to the point where people don't actually technically people don't really even have computers Okay, really they have small flash drives that are hooked up to a screen that have like based them basic system configuration like your color theme and your user data and then all of your actual data all of your stuff is Online Theoretically sometimes it's not even there sometimes. It's not even yours. Okay. Now. Why is this a problem now? I will say it's mostly a problem for reasons You don't quite see if you're if you're in this domain because you just think of it as being Oh, I can just go online and get all my stuff You don't realize all the things you could do with playing files on your computer You can copy them on a USB you can share them with friends You can do all this kind of stuff you can do you can use you know Unix commands to to do things programmatically to them you can reorganize them You can put them in the way you like all these kind of things that you can do Whereas people are now sort of plugged into these centralized systems. Okay, and that's a big problem First off because you know if you put your pictures on Facebook Facebook legally I don't I don't think it's officially they own your pictures, but they have legal rights to them Okay, and if anything goes wrong if there's any kind of comparable your data is compromised. It's just over It's how do you control you're utterly just having faith You know a lot of people will be very critical of these social media companies and they still Trust them with all of their data like that's their primary place to keep data Like the best thing you can do right now is just close your Facebook account They'll they even allow you to download an archive of all your stuff You don't even have to worry about it so you can actually have it on your own computer. Okay, so The thing that's annoying to me I mean also in terms of like internet architecture. You have to think about how crazy inefficient this System is this system of basically digital homelessness where you don't you or you don't even have property That's the thing like I've come I've said before people need to have their own internet property in terms of internet But you also need your own local digital property you need to be able to have your own files that seems like a very basic thing and You need that for reasons you don't even necessarily understand if you've just used cloud computing because you don't even realize the programs You can use your stuff with I mean just as an example a lot of normies out there use of course Netflix Okay, Netflix or Spotify to stream moves music and movies and of course first off This is a huge hugely inefficient on the internet because what happens is if you watch a movie five times You're downloading it five times. Okay, unless I Netflix probably has a cache of something You've just watched watched but in normal circumstances like the internet is like nowadays is mostly Netflix Netflix and YouTube and on YouTube's case at least you're watching different videos Usually unless you watch the same video over and over again But in Netflix a lot of times people are just re-downloading these massive gigabytes of movies same thing on Same kind of thing on Spotify But you know so people don't have the the actual files. They can't just give it to people They can't just give a movie file to people whereas people old boomers like me who still download music and movie files I just have all that on my computer first off. I can use them without the internet, okay? I literally when I go on a airplane ride, I can literally open my laptop and watch a movie Okay, you know just a cheap domestic flight where I don't have screens. I can just pull up my laptop I can watch I can watch Star Wars or something like that. Okay, alright anything anything that I happen to have Okay, so I have since I guess I was around 18 or so. I just whenever I watch a movie I download it I there's no reason to stream it on some shady site or something like that or use Netflix because once I have that file I can do whatever what I want with it. I can give it to people. I can do whatever Same thing is there are also programs like for example Cody Maybe I should do a video on that because it's sort of a normie friendly program that I actually sometimes use I'm ashamed to say that But only when people are over at my house Cody is a basically a program if you have a bunch of movie files on your computer in a directory You can say hey Cody look at this directory and what it does is it automatically grabs like The the images and information about that movie and it displays it in a thing that actually looks a lot like Netflix or one of those Services it's set for it's totally offline. You can use it, you know, whenever you want It's a very nice server Actually, you can even put in plugins that like download movies and stuff like that like stream them from like I don't know some kind of piracy service or something like that But anyway, so that's the thing that I find very frustrating about you other people's computer setups when I have to use them Or I have to give recommendations because a lot of people just don't think like they don't realize that like files are your your The things that you are most in control of you can't when you have like a Document on your computer even if you're using Microsoft Word or something that's much better than using something like Google Docs if you use Google Docs, you have to be connected to the internet sure their ways to sync it up but it's always some weird Google Docs file and and It's just one of those things you are dependent on this massive centralized structure to get a very basic level of computing done Okay I want to be able to if I'm in a city if I have my laptop I don't need I don't want to need internet 100% of the time I want the ability to take my laptop on a bus and do work without having to worry about being connected to the internet And so people will go it's crazy nowadays how people will go to extreme excuse me extreme lengths to Oh, I gotta oh, I gotta have my cell phone hotspot on and all this kind of stupid stuff when they don't need like if you just Had the files you wouldn't have to worry about it And even more than that. Okay. This is just me talking about sort of practical things. We're also getting to the point where like You're you don't have privacy. You don't have security on I know that's an abstraction to people Sometimes because it's like, oh, they're not gonna monitor me or something like that The thing is you never know what's gonna happen. Okay, the reality is when if you if you like when you have files on someone else's Computer, you don't even know what kind of you know, when you're sending your files on Google's servers You don't you have no clue what they're running there You have no clue what they're looking at And you having that data there is a permanent liability. Okay, you might even say oh, I trust Google Oh, man, their ghouls are greatest ally blah blah blah, okay But in the future things might change and that data of yours is permanently out there You don't know what they're doing with it. Okay, you you legitimately have no clue. It is a permanent liability That's what I think people need to realize. It's not so much You know, you're looking at these companies that you give data to and you're saying oh, they've done bad stuff So I don't trust them. It's I am giving them a massive opportunity to do bad stuff and have absolutely no recourse about it That's the issue. Okay, that's that's really the issue because there have been many services in the past online services like this that Have compromised data compromised passwords because they they stored them in some stupid way Done lots of the bad things Okay, it's sometimes even just by negligence and you are just setting yourself up for failure in doing that It is much nicer. Okay, it's much much nicer to just have these files on your computer You can do lots of magical stuff all the stuff that I talk about my videos when I'm like greppin stuff and setting stuff and and Looking at media info and arranging things in a particular order all of that stuff I can do because I do locally so the same thing with all my files even my email Okay email is actually something that I think a lot of people don't even realize but you should have all of your mail offline Okay, this is my firm belief e especially if you're using a service like Gmail or something like this when I have to use Gmail for work. I've had worked at jobs where I had a Gmail account what I always do is I use isync which is a nice command line program that can download mail for you It'll download mail if you give it your username password at your setup or whatever It will download mail to your computer it'll log into that iMap server and pull down your email so you can actually look at it offline and It removed even though you still have that email on your computer You can put it you know back it up if you want to you can I have all my emails from back when I was you know 16 Okay, that is not touching the internet anymore. Okay, so if Google servers get compromised if some other servers get compromised It's not an issue even if Google is snooping on you. You know whenever I have one of these accounts Online I only have like basically five emails online at a time before I go through them and get rid of them Then I save them offline to an archive So that's usually how I think and now now look at my situation I think maybe people won't realize this because maybe I should do a video on it, but on my computer right now Okay, or on hard drives or things that are encrypted. I have all my music and movies Okay, that I can watch whenever including some TV shows I'm actually deleting all the TV shows and movies that are like cringe and blue-billed But you know I have most of them. I have all my mail. I've ever gotten okay I have an offline store of that all all my images all my text files all like everything that I've ever written You know all that kind of stuff easily searchable offline on my own computer And we live in a period of massive amounts of data or massive amounts of amounts of storage space Like it you can get a terabyte drive a terabyte a terabyte is like I'm sorry I'm a boomer that used to be a massive amount and it still is but you can get a terabyte drive for under a hundred bucks Under a hundred bucks. Okay, basically every computer. I don't know. It's just crazy how much space they have nowadays so Anyway, that's the thing I'm most worried about now is that people are moving to a state where All computers have to be used tethered to some online service It's a way of keeping you locked into Google or Apple or any of this kind of stuff and sure they offer conveniences Oh, wow Google Drive syncs my stuff so I can access it on multiple computers. Okay, that's cool So does the USB drive. There's lots of Free software that does that you can run locally on your own computer and it syncs up But you know sync thing I've done a video on you can learn how to use git if you're using text text files You can learn how to use our sync. There are many other there are things like one drive What's the other one that's like one drive Something some other kind of drive next next cloud something like I forget whatever But there are lots of services like that that are just like Google Drive that you can host you You basically still have your files, okay, and it's not in some goofy Google Drive format or something like that So that's just one thing and I'm just saying this like I'm not telling you to just massively change the way you do computing But just think about that when you start doing new things It's better to have things offline, but back in the day. I actually use this as cringe now I'm just sort of actually rambling but back in the day before I got red-pilled on anything technology related I literally used to be the guy who kept everything on Google Drive, okay? I just had everything I even kept a little offline store of them on my computers, you know I had it sync locally, but uh, yeah, that's that's not the same thing. It really just isn't Yeah, I was like really cringe back in the day Like they I don't know the reason I complain about all this kind of stuff in computers is mostly because I've done it when I When I was a dumb kid But anyway, so yeah, that's about it. Whatever. See you guys next time