Dave

Yes my issue is that I seem to be replacing a drive somewhere every couple of years. I am keen for something that can be stored in a cupboard for years, preferably a decent chance at lasting decades.

That's effectively what I have now. However I seem to kill a drive every couple of years, so I am keen for something that can be stored for many years (preferably decades).

As much as I'm worried about family not being able to do it, I'm just as worried that I will do something dumb and lose the encryption key, losing everything. I am keen on the digital equivalent of a suitcase full of photos that could be stumbled upon.

I also already have borg backup set up to a backup drive and synced to the cloud (Backblaze B2).

For tape drives, is many thousands of dollars a normal price? Not sure I'm that keen.

I have cloud with B2, I'm looking for cupboard storage that a random family member can pull out and browse through after I get put in a resthome (only half joking).

Is home tape storage feasible (and good for this use-case)?

In terms of what to backup, I'm running on the assumption that technology will be able to autofilter the good stuff at some point, no need to put much effort in now haha.

Hmm I am keen for something that could be left in the cupboard for 50 years and still works when brought out.

What does it take me to do home tape storage? Do the tapes needs to be stored with climate control or are they pretty stable? Is it feasible for the average person to load the contents?

I'm thinking of pulling a suitcase out of the cupboard of all the baby photos, but digital files or photo and video.

From the blog post someone else linked, it sounds like they do have this process but it's just a process it's not enforced by their control software. So someone has made a change without following the process, and they mention prioritising getting enforcement into their control panel or whatever.

Personally I think they have a much better track record of not making dumb mistakes than I do...

Huh, we have had users signing up at a higher rate than usual, but we go through bursts and we are generally pretty low volume so I thought nothing of it. Amazing to see you make the front page!

Isn't this just the path of an immature company?

There's a guy who is probably a programmer and he makes a thing, starts trying to sell it. Nothing here stands out as bad intentions, it just makes me think of what it might look like if I tried to start a company (a lot of stumbling).

Plus the blog post is pretty clear it's their personal views. They spend a lot of time talking about the AI crap but when using Kagi it seems less intrusive than Google, and you can turn it off.

I dunno, I've seen this blog posted around a few times and there isn't anything in here that puts me off so long as I treat it as what it is, a subscription for that month, not an investment in the future. If the company goes bankrupt because the CEO spent investors' money starting a t-shirt company then I'll just use a different search when they shut down.

Probably worth noting I use a relay email address not my main one, but I do that for almost everything.

My biggest issue with Friendica is that the very top thing I want social media for is to share photos and videos in a private way with friends and family. Of you have to upload your video to YouTube before posting the URLthen that is a terrible experience.

Facebook lets you just grab your photos and vidros and upload them to your post. It automatically converts them from the 200MB+ per minute file your phone made into a 40MB per minute file, so people watching on their phones don't chew through their data allowance or be unable to play it due to slow internet. It shows the photos in a seamless galley.

I would be willing to put up with almost any other issues if this part was a seamless and user friendly experience, of which no self-hosted Facebook replacement (federated or not) that I have seen can do.

Can I use a voice assistant in HA to add, remove, and read out items on my shopping list? The build in one doesn't seem to have this ability yet.

We can demand his firing but unfortunately he's one of three founders, he's unlikely to be fired. But I hope it's a wakeup call to them that they should have a policy of keeping their mouth shut on politics, including all board members.