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• Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the best alternative to Google Drive?

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  • Nutteman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s rookie numbers

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      • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Do you keep the cord hanging out or do you go fishing every time you need a file?

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      • Nutteman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have one with a flared base

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    • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just need affordable storage

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  • M137@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One up for that. Espexially that the service was built out of pettyness lol.

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    • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Home NAS

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    • Twig@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I guess cloud based until I can find reasonably priced home storage.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nextcloud to self host.

    pCloud for a service.

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  • fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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  • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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  • nil@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Proton Drive if you can’t hist a server somehow

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  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    rsync

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• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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