I have a different, but effectively similar, setup to Spearchucker for managing and backing up my data, identity, etc.
>how is someone supposed to keep track of it?
Very carefully. No sarcasm intended. Same as one's personal finances, for example.
>and come up with solutions... we do others a disservice.
I can't speak for Spearchucker, but I devised my particular solution for my own sake, and "doing others a service" didn't factor into that process.
Nor do I feel it necessarily should. If someone without experience asks how I navigate our messy digital world (and they have), I give them my honest answer and describe my system. Sometimes I propose a few less-effective, consumer-friendly alternatives, along with their drawbacks. Yes, my solution involves a lot of cobbled-together, semi-automated and semi-manual systems. That's because these systems change so frequently that it was the best I could do to get my own system working in the first place. It seems you are implying some obligation exists to do someone else the "service" of managing their personal digital hygiene, at some arbitrary ease of use that fits their level of expertise.
It is not because I'm some blackhearted bastard with no regard for my fellow man that I don't feel that obligation. It is because that, even if I have crafted a solution that adds resilience to the failure of services X, Y and Z, which I use, I don't know what I could/would do when the other person begins to rely on service W, where W is a service I do not use and do not understand the intricacies of.
In short, I find it strange that you frame someone having shared what works for them on a service-vs-disservice axis for the broader world. I'm happy that Spearchucker has a system for, and the discipline to, maintain his digital hygiene.
> Very carefully. No sarcasm intended. Same as one's personal finances, for example.
That is a very interesting comparison. I wonder how long it will take before people start taking their digital footprint as seriously as they take personal finance? Before digital maturity is seen as a mark of adulthood the way finance savvy is seen today?
Your analogy is apt because they are both areas that the average person doesn't understand, but is still forced to wade their way through. I look forward to the day when there are digital security self-help books and blogs like the personal finance and investing material we have now.
Whats absurd is saying "how complicated could your system be?" Not the solution.
This is a technical forum so I get it, but the solution for a person well versed in technology isnt actually applicable to anyone else. Consider that youre at the leading edge of a bellcurve.
Theres no one click install, no service to give 5$/mo to, nothing. Just a big pile of stuff people are supposed to squirrel away, as though theyre even good at their own finances.
We should all be sharing what works for us. But to suggest things are trivial or easy just creates a divide between people who understand and those who do not.
>how is someone supposed to keep track of it?
Very carefully. No sarcasm intended. Same as one's personal finances, for example.
>and come up with solutions... we do others a disservice.
I can't speak for Spearchucker, but I devised my particular solution for my own sake, and "doing others a service" didn't factor into that process.
Nor do I feel it necessarily should. If someone without experience asks how I navigate our messy digital world (and they have), I give them my honest answer and describe my system. Sometimes I propose a few less-effective, consumer-friendly alternatives, along with their drawbacks. Yes, my solution involves a lot of cobbled-together, semi-automated and semi-manual systems. That's because these systems change so frequently that it was the best I could do to get my own system working in the first place. It seems you are implying some obligation exists to do someone else the "service" of managing their personal digital hygiene, at some arbitrary ease of use that fits their level of expertise.
It is not because I'm some blackhearted bastard with no regard for my fellow man that I don't feel that obligation. It is because that, even if I have crafted a solution that adds resilience to the failure of services X, Y and Z, which I use, I don't know what I could/would do when the other person begins to rely on service W, where W is a service I do not use and do not understand the intricacies of.
In short, I find it strange that you frame someone having shared what works for them on a service-vs-disservice axis for the broader world. I'm happy that Spearchucker has a system for, and the discipline to, maintain his digital hygiene.