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Honestly. I'm ok with this.
Google: Fix google fucking drive. Stop this AI shit and put the billions of dollars into making your products basically functional.
At this point, anyone disappointed by Google has self inflicted wounds. Unless your employer forces you to use it, there's really no excuse to not Degoogle.
I have a friend who works for Google, in a non-computer science department but one that does require some amount of decent computer hardware (compute, IO, etc.) They go through this cycle every year or so; their team uses MacBook Pros because it fits their needs the best -> department heads above them see this and take the MacBook Pros away and replace them with Chromebooks -> team cannot accomplish their goals on the Chromebooks, so they lobby up the chain and eventually get their MBPs back -> … ad infinitum.
What's the best alternative to Google Drive?
Nextcloud to self host.
pCloud for a service.
I keep a 1tb usb drive in my ass at all times
That's rookie numbers
Not all of us have room for multiple 1tb drives.
That's why you settle for a single 8 TB 3.5 inch disc. It just has a better value.
3.5 inch drive might fit better, but what about micro sd cards though. Are we up to super high capacity on those yet, my ass might appreciate it better.
The trick is to only pull the cable out while making a backup. This way you don't have to stretch and relax as often.
Do you keep the cord hanging out or do you go fishing every time you need a file?
I have one with a flared base
Like a fucking professional. Props.
Just need affordable storage
The best that I'm aware of that's almost exactly the same and not the different (but better options already said): mega.io
This looks like a good alternative. If only there was an automated way to move everything from gdrive to here. Still, might be worth the manual downloading and uploading elsewhere. Thanks
One up for that. Espexially that the service was built out of pettyness lol.
Home NAS
Do you want best or easiest? Could get Proton drive if you want something cloud based.
I guess cloud based until I can find reasonably priced home storage.
Proton Drive if you can't host a server for some reason
i haven't used it at the same scale as gdrive, but you could check out proton. the subscription isn't too bad and you can roll in VPN also
I have Nextcloud running on my home server, hooked up to a 2tb drive. It's kind of a pain the ass to have to maintain, but less of a pain in the ass than relying on Google.
There are public Nextcloud Instances.
True. But I got to a point where I was comfortable having a go at it myself, so saved myself some money by using a hard drive I already had available.
Nextcloud Instances.
WireGuard VPN to a Linux box in your basement.
rsync
I think of all the unified tech ecosystems, Apple is hands down the best but Google is still the best non-Apple option. The only other option I think is Microsoft, and I would rather drown in burning gasoline than go back to anything Microsoft touches.
Obviously the best option is to host your own stuff through open source, which I am doing, but it's taking time, it's a lot of work to keep up with. Google gives me a bunch of barely passable tools accessible from anything with an internet connection.
I did degoogle for browser and search though. Firefox and Kagi makes the internet almost tolerable.
Not everyone has the monetary, cognitive, temporary, material, space or hardware resources to do that.
GoogleDrive has always been hot garbage and now it's just glazed hot garbage. Best to just leave unless you're forced to use it by your employer.
you can mount google drive as swap. what other provider allows you to do that?
Fixing the products and services does not increase the shareholder value.