Kelly

Weird sales pitch. I'm not sure who he is trying to appeal to here?

Phone numbers are a "legacy system" if they were designed today they would be different.

Do you have a link to the archived screenshot?

Mobile browser tabs are both too persistent in that they don't get cleaned up when you close the browser, and too amnesiac in that they can kill a connection if they are placed in background for even a couple of seconds.

Its the worst of both worlds.

chips

Its a strange product, in the US they were ordered not to call them "chips", and call them "crisps" instead:

The product was originally known as Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips, but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato "chip" since they were made from a potato-based dough rather than being sliced from potatoes. The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word "chip" in their product name within the phrase: "potato chips made from dried potatoes". Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato "crisps", instead of chips.

In the UK, they argued they were not "potato crisps" because they though their low potato content would get a lower tax rate.

In July 2008, in the London High Court, P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (the term by which potato chips are known in British English), even though labelled "Potato Crisps" on the container, as the potato content was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, "is not found in nature". This ruling, against a United Kingdom value added tax (VAT) and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks. In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles

If they stole the code that would be copyright infringement.

Wait... How do Trade Secrets work?

I thought that the individuals might be in legal trouble if they violate NDAs or No Compete clauses but that once the "secret" was out it was fair game.

https://www.kelloggs.co.uk/content/dam/europe/kelloggs_gb/pdf/The nostalgia is real Pringles launches NEW Retro Console Clinic as 80 percentage of Brits fall back in love with 00s and 90s tech.pdf

I know a few people who have a HDD exchange going. A couple of times a year they drop off a HDD with their current backup at a friends house, then take the old one home to use next time.

It offline, so it can't be accessed easily but its also protected from device failure,power surges, etc.

Its no good as a daily backup but its fine for static data e.g. videos of the kids as they were growing up.

If its just a HDD in a static proof bag it doesn't take much room and can be stored easily.

Its got issues but it does offer a cheep offsite backup

It doesn't look good

https://www.pcloud.com/terms_and_conditions.html

pCloud has a fourteen (14) calendar days money back guarantee, beginning on the day you have submitted your payment for the Paid services. During this period, you are eligible to request for a refund. If you issue an explicit written request for a refund within the fourteen (14) days referenced above, we will process the refund due to you in full within 30 calendar days, counting from the day you have confirmed your request.

We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.

In case you have purchased Paid services through a promotional campaign or provided discount, pCloud reserves the right to decline providing a refund.

I just used web archive to check the site on three random days in 2024 and it looks like they always have a promotion and could claim any purchases are ineligable for the money back guarantee.

Termination

We reserve the right not to provide the Site or Services to any user. We also reserve the right to terminate any user's right to access the Site or Services at any time, in our discretion. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use the Site and Services and your account automatically terminate. If pCloud ceases operation, your account will be terminated and pCloud will no longer provide the Site or Services. If your account is terminated in accordance with this section, you will not receive any refund of any fees paid for the account.

And they can decide to stop your service at any time.

There are on going costs with running the service so if new customers stopped signing up they would go broke when they run out of money. (i.e. like a ponzi scheme)

Unless they invest your seed capital and pay for your services from growth. This would work when times are good, but could fall apart during any significant financial crisis.

The current offer for the named service is asking for us$800 for 10TB, if they followed the 5% rule that would leave them with us$40 per year to provide the service.