And all subscriptions too.
However it turns out for ya, I’ve spent 25 years telling people that they cannot understand the importance of backups until they lose it all. I don’t blame them! Understanding a thing logically doesn’t have much to do with understanding it emotionally.
If anyone cares, I use Google for backup. Yeah, I know, hateful around here, but for $100 a year I get my data offsite. At the house, it’s all on my own drives and backed up again nightly to more drives. You’d have to cancel my Google account and burn my house down for me to lose it all, and I’d snatch the backup drive on the way out the fire.
Is this solution perfect? Hell no! But rewiring my Windows libraries to Google Drive gives me peace of mind. Drop a pic in the Windows Pictures folder, it’s backed up in two places, automatic.
There are shared lists of people, big tech, bans.
I’ve backups for my files. Only my files. But we live and we learn, so I’m going to change that.
Just last weekend I had a friend lose their Google account. They can’t sign in any more. Trying to sign in prompts them to “verify” their account by signing in on a certain specific tablet computer. That tablet computer has broken wifi and can’t sign in to anything. Maybe we could configure the wifi right, if we could sign in, but we can’t without wifi. As far as we can tell, this Google account they’ve had ever since the beginning of Gmail is now dead. All their data is inaccessible.
If it has a working USB port: if it’s rooted, you could easily reverse tether over USB. If not rooted, but you can put it into Developer mode (there are ways depending on the Android version), you can still use
adb reverseto forward a port on the tablet over USB to a proxy server running on a computer, and then configure Android to use that as the proxy. I assume Google can log in and verify a device through a proxy fine.After that, this would be a good lesson for them to get everything off Google though once they can!
Jesus Christ dude, first service outage? None of your shit is gone 😂
First outage ever for me.
Like the others have already said, it’s only an outage and it will return.
That said, what we’re seeing is precisely what privacy and software freedom advocates have been warning of for years now: the world’s overreliance on the centralised, proprietary infrastructure of a handful of US-based oligopolies have made people, companies and entire nations heavily dependent and vulnerable to blackmail, espionage and other forms of exploitation. Everything ugly we’re seeing out there, from the enshittification of services to mass surveillance, from the digital dispossession of users to the exploitation of software for political leverage, is a direct function of this overreliance. And it’s about time to break this cycle.
The alternatives and solutions are out there. Use the energy of your anger to make the switch; it’s going to bear fruit quickly! The go-to subs for digital independence are /c/degoogle@lemmy.ml, /c/privacy@lemmy.ml, /c/selfhosted@lemmy.world and /c/linux@lemmy.ml.
It’s all just down. Might be back up later.
Nothing at all. I hate them. Glory to Linux and GNU !
Has been at least 15 hours now. They must’ve really borked something
They forgot the
no mistakes, pleasein the prompt.
Are you five years old? There’s an outage. Your account is not gone.
Huh, not for me. He says “Restore your account” and stay blocked to it :(
Couldn’t submit my paper ma’am. The cloud ate my homework.
LINUX
Bug free, always works, tons of reliable services 😂😂😂😂
Bug free
Ah yes, the myth of software that can be free of any bugs while remaining large
Perhaps this is the pic related you’re looking for:
Yeah hahaha
What service were you using that got deleted? They’re (still) having a global outage, you might get it back later.
Global outage. Wait till it’s back up before jumping to conclusions.
What if it doesn’t come back up?
We get a global week off while every IT dept panics
Meanwhile every CTO on Earth will ponder how they can avoid this in the future by tying their companies to Microsoft cloud services even harder.
Eh. Something as high profile as this might actually prompt some companies to go back to self hosting.
Something was up Wednesday morning. I could not get into my laptop for an hour because mickeysoft couldn’t see my PIN.
imagine this happened to university accounts, since alot of colleges seem to use microsoft accounts.
Lol
Redundancy!
Microsoft: Huh?
Microsoft: yes, who should we make redundant?
Maybe related, I dont turn my computer on for long enough or often enough to keep up with any of this stuff :
Had a go last night, and windows decided to close everything i was doing just to tell me that it couldn’t launch copilot because somethings missing. I have never once in my life ever knowingly or voluntarily interacted with copilot.
