Bottom line, there’s always a possibility a cloud/service provider could lose you data. That chance is (/should be) exponentially smaller on their environments however than the likelihood of your own local stores.

If you’re really serious about preserving your data, consider the 3-2-1 Backup Rule:

3 copies of your data 2 different types of media 1 copy stored off-site

I knew what it was going to be and I still clicked it, you sonnova…

UDP: meh

Not who you’re replying to but yes, Synology will let you automate backups to a cloud/service (and you definitely should!)

Are Americans really more lazy/inconsiderate people?

American here. The answer is emphatically “yes”.

I set up a test rig with Fedora to see how the gaming went and didn’t have any issues with Steam or a handful of AAA games. Of note though, my test machine has an AMD GPU so I didn’t have to deal with any Nvidia driver shenanigans.