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		gapchuboy on Nov 19, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using YouTube as Unlimited Cloud Storage? [video] 2 reasons it's not practical. Storage is cheap, but compute isn't. Encoding is lot of compute and losing data by abusing TOS not worth the risk.

Hamuko on Nov 19, 2023 [–]

Eh, I consider computing a pretty minimal expense for long-term storage that I always throw my shit through zopfli before stuffing them on my NAS or uploading them to S3.

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