I Am in Cloud-Storage Hell

March 8, 2024

Highlights

now I’m paying for duplicate services, terrified that I might wipe out precious memories if I cancel one.


My online life is a sprawling, overwhelming mess with a price tag that increases every few years. If these archives were in my home and not in the cloud, I have to imagine that visitors would pull me aside for an intervention or refuse to come over altogether.


when I store information for later, I’m often confusing that right-click/save-as process with the actual work of remembering something important.