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Good reminder I should install immich today and maybe nextcloud.
I do back up my photos library with Time Machine and borg, and sync.com (Canadian hosted!), but it would be better to migrate away now.
The other thing is I have a numbers file with all my investment info and finance history that if this were to happen would become unavailable… I should migrate that too…
I have almost completely degoogled (some old stuff still uses my gmail) but I haven’t fully de-appled yet.
Never a better time to migrate stuff to Linux.
How can they lock you out of your finance files?
Even if they shut down your iCloud, wouldn't you still have a local copy on your computer (and perhaps another one your phone)?
If you have the file on all your devices, and all of them are apple devices, and they lock down your apple account, then you lose access to all of your devices, and to all the data on them.
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
Collateral: if you self-host everything, then that is also only one basket.
Always be careful and have more than one avenue.
You should. This is just more whining from someone who couldn’t be bothered to create a local backup.