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Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by gonzalohm »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #35
dewey wrote: post #3

The selling point of Dropbox/Google Drive isn't the storage itself, but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced. So it's a cool project, but not really what I'd say is a Dropbox replacement.

https://syncthing.net/ Free, opensource, works on computers and phones, can in most cases puncture nat, supports local discovery (lan, multicast). No googles, no dropboxes, no clouds, no AI training, no "my kid likes the wrong video on youtube, now our whole family lost access to every google account we had, so we lost everything, including family photos", just sync! (not affiliated, just really love the software)

The problem with syncthing is that you need to download the whole folder to your device. Google drive is "streaming"

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by serf »

haswell wrote: post #168
verdverm wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vibe coded / sloppy projects

There are plenty of reasons to criticize OneDrive and I personally would not use it. But I think comparing it with a weekend vibe coded self hosted project is a bit of a stretch.

I don't.

Microsoft has zero goodwill from me with regards to software quality or pro-consumer business moves.

I will forever assume that microsoft product is 1) technically broken 2) trying to upsell and 3) probably required by some esoteric software suite, which is the only reason a sane human would put up with it.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by shortstuffsushi »

bitexploder wrote: post #59
throwaway5465 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can just all use rsync, no need for an app.

Until I want to share with say… anyone that isn’t on HN :)

If you're not aware, the GP was a reference to the original Dropbox HN post, wherein BrandonM said, effectively, "why wouldn't I just use rsync?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by Yizahi »

pjc50 wrote: post #170
haswell wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What experience?

A recent (last year?) Windows update moved a lot of people's Documents folder into OneDrive, without asking. In some cases people lost data, in others it was a nuisance as all sorts of embedded or saved paths broke.

Did that really happen? Like existing and populated with existing files /user/Documents content had been moved automatically to the /user/OneDrive/ without asking? No offense, but I have a hard time believing it.

If if was a new setup and people accidentally started using OneDrive dir as a primary folder and then something broke, then yeah, that may happen. Or if the users got conned into enabling automatic backups for folders. That's also possible. The problem is that backup setting is off by default. But automatically copying or moving files from outside of the /user/OneDrive without any prompting?

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by DarkUranium »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #86
dewey wrote: post #3

The selling point of Dropbox/Google Drive isn't the storage itself, but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced. So it's a cool project, but not really what I'd say is a Dropbox replacement.

> but that there's app for mobile and desktop operating systems which deeply integrates it in the OS so it's just like a local folder that's magically synced Which mobile OS would that be? The big reason I stopped being excited about cloud storage is that on mobile, from what I can tell, none of the major providers care about "folder that syncs" experience. You only get an app that lets you view remote storage. The o…

Seafile seems to have that feature, but upload only.

And I haven't tried it ... unfortunately, the Android app is also ...... buggy.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by DarkUranium »

gonzalohm wrote: post #191
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://syncthing.net/ Free, opensource, works on computers and phones, can in most cases puncture nat, supports local discovery (lan, multicast). No googles, no dropboxes, no clouds, no AI training, no "my kid likes the wrong video on youtube, now our whole family lost access to every google account we had, so we lost everything, including family photos", just sync! (not affiliated, just really love the software)

The problem with syncthing is that you need to download the whole folder to your device. Google drive is "streaming"

Have a look at Seafile's SeaDrive client for that.

Mind, I haven't actually used it in anger, as I prefer full file sync vs on-demand.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by wolvoleo »

bitexploder wrote: post #59
throwaway5465 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can just all use rsync, no need for an app.

Until I want to share with say… anyone that isn’t on HN :)

Then S3 is not going to be a lot better :)

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by bitexploder »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #193
bitexploder wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until I want to share with say… anyone that isn’t on HN :)

If you're not aware, the GP was a reference to the original Dropbox HN post, wherein BrandonM said, effectively, "why wouldn't I just use rsync?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I am pretty sure I knew that and forgot it and now I know it again :)

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by Reviving1514 »

ValentineC wrote: post #185
encom wrote: post #106

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I dislike Dropbox for reasons that aren't technical, but the big thing for me is that I want either E2EE, or control/ownership of where my data is stored. These are my personal files (no, not that kind of personal), I'm not just going to scatter them on the internet. My solution so far has been NextCloud, but I'm getting pretty fed up with it. But not enough to actually do anything about it... yet.

> I dislike Dropbox for reasons that aren't technical, but the big thing for me is that I want either E2EE, or control/ownership of where my data is stored. You could run something like Cryptomator on top of Dropbox: https://cryptomator.org/ It even has (paid) iOS and Android apps for mobile access.

Boxcryptor used to be amazing for this till they got acquired by Dropbox. Last I checked cryptomator couple years ago it still hand random file corruption risk, is that still true?

For now I just use hetzner storage share.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by nomel »

bitexploder wrote: post #59
throwaway5465 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We can just all use rsync, no need for an app.

Until I want to share with say… anyone that isn’t on HN :)

Just make a route on your web server, making all the files available with some long, impossible to guess, unique ID that can be shared. Like https://files./.

If they want to collaborate, they can just post the changed file, using the auth key you generated for them set in some header field, to https://files./, which could automatically increment revision numbers. Then you could access specific revisions with ...//rev/.

So much easier than installing an app! You could literally just use curl as the interface! (I kid)

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