[rellic]

The main reason we went to PC’s was to get away from “mainframes” where every thing was stored in one spot.
Some seem to have gone full circle.
I own 6 or so computers. Most run Linux and I store my data
locally, it is cheaper than the “Cloud”.
I’m a retired software engineer. Don’t ask why I have so many computers. But I won’t get hacked.
My VA, Credit card, Credit bureau, Retirement plans, et al companies have been “hacked”. The “cloud” is not your friend, Firewalls are.

[The Duke]

I bought my first mini "home lab" computer this very day (a Dell Optiplex 7060 with 32G ram and 1T NVME SSD). Cloud has proven to not only be more costly, but also less performant. I'm anxious to get Proxmox installed on this thing and start stacking up LXD and Docker containers.

I'm already starting to think I may need another.

In addition to Cloud wearing thin, I predict the same for SaaS.