Eh, it’s not a complete waste of time - AWS will only allow for 35 days of snapshots because they want you to use yet more managed services like Backup. Tossing even 60 days of backups on S3 can make clients a lot happier.

Just because other people are hypocritical and disregard the well being of others doesn’t mean that’s what you should aspire to.

Seconding this. Among all the web IRC clients I have tried, The Lounge is the best, and the experience on mobile is pretty good.