I came to say that. Don't believe in the cloud. Just own the things you like to consume more than once, just save them on your hard drive, and sync all of it on all your devices. It requires some setup and attention but it works very well. I do need all the pictures of my family on all my devices, I don't need them on a cloud. Same for the music I love.
"The cloud" is many things. A streaming service is clearly flaky; a storage service like S3 or Nearline where you can put an encrypted offsite copy of your files is helpful, despite both being "cloud" services.
