Just don't spin up your machines in Bahrain or the UAE...
what am i missing?
Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
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Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#32Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#33Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#34S3 is costly and carries significant political baggage. For a better alternative, run MinIO on a cloud provider of your choice, or stick with a secure option like Proton Drive.
Suggesting MinIO as an alternative to something with "significant political baggage" seems weird given the recent rug pull?
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#35The 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)
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#36I pay Dropbox $120 per year for 2TB. No transfer fees, solid Apps, macOS integration, free APIs.
How much on S3? A LOT more.
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#37"Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, pay for an S3 bucket instead"
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#38The 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.
We can just all use rsync, no need for an app.
Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead
#39That is a bit like saying “Don’t use a medical analysis app, just interpret your lab results yourself.”
Sure, ChatGPT can help, but to use it reliably, you still need enough medical knowledge to ask good questions and evaluate the answers.