I cannot stress enough how good of an instinct I think this is; many of my long term nerd decisions over the last 20 years or so have "paid off" in ways that I literally don't know how to put a money value on. Not priceless, but freeing me from so many headaches.

Offhand, these include "preferring text and my own machines for storing information that is useful to me" over "clouds" and e.g. Word docs. Also, having my own domain and email (which I pay for).

I'm thinking of, e.g. the guy that blogged for years and years and then Google just yoinked it and it was gone. Younger me was more probably more obnoxious about it, like, serves you right -- a thing I would NEVER say now -- but, still, people like me really were right all along about this sort of thing, and I daresay it would be good if everyone followed us.