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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • 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.















  • Nintendo has a lot of active “super mario” trademarks with the USPTO, 79259975 includes the following:

    G & S: IC 030: Tea; tea-based beverages; coffee; coffee-based beverages; cocoa; cocoa-based beverages; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; popcorn; chewing gum; bread; buns; sandwiches; pizzas; pies; cakes; frozen yogurt confections; pancakes; crackers; mints for breath freshening; seasonings; ketchup; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; noodles; pasta sauce.

    https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search

    This would limit the supermarket from carrying their own store brand product lines for these product types.

    Off the top of my head I can confirm my supermarket stocks their own brand of :

    Tea; coffee; cocoa; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; bread; buns; pies; cakes; seasonings; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; pasta sauce.

    Admittedly my local is part of a large chain so this may not be typical but even independent supermarkets in my area tend to repackage bulk candies and chocolate under their own label.