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[–] 54 points 1 month ago (31 children)

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.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (27 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (23 children)

    What's the best alternative to Google Drive?

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  • [–] 61 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I keep a 1tb usb drive in my ass at all times

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Not all of us have room for multiple 1tb drives.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    That's why you settle for a single 8 TB 3.5 inch disc. It just has a better value.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The best that I'm aware of that's almost exactly the same and not the different (but better options already said): mega.io

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    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.

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