06/03/2026
I sort of like that some tech is connected to the cloud. My music? Very convenient. Lightswitches? Ugh, no. There’s a time and a place for it.
Using the cloud makes a lot of sense now that we carry computers in our pocket. We take it for granted that we have seamless access to much of our digital life everywhere we go.
Technically it’s possible to do this without the cloud, but there’s a security tradeoff. If you’re hosting stuff on your local network, and enabling access from the outside, are you absolutely sure that you’re not opening yourself up to attacks on your network?
Of course, big cloud providers can get hacked too. But it’s not an all-or-nothing thing—you have to consider the tradeoffs in each case when you decide whether the cloud makes sense for a gadget or service.
I think it’s important to have that choice, which is why one of my big projects right now is making Tuneshine work cloud-free. It’s been a ton of work but I think it’s worth it.
