RAID with parity is technically a backup, just a mostly ineffective one. It’s a backup that allows you to recover from exactly one scenario, single (or double) device hardware failure.

But I definitely understand the mantra “RAID is not a backup”. It’s not what most people think of when they say “backup”.

Once one person has all the power, they de facto have all the wealth. Slaves don’t own anything.

Is Puppet getting forked hard?

Don’t. What the fuck? Did they do this on purpose? Then do not associate with them again, they’re a psychopath. If it was an accident, and their apology is half assed, then they’re not really sorry. Not a sociopath, but a jerk.

Almost definitely not at all. There’s just too much latency, due to the speed of light. Local storage will always be faster than cloud, by a huge margin, unless you’re using an incredibly slow medium.