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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 axelthegerman »

pprotas wrote: post #40
atrus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Syncthing? I'm taking 'offline' to mean 'not requiring the internet', which means you can have plenty of computers!

Samba share? Old technology still works, even if it is old!

Works so great on new devices like smartphones. Except not.

And so easy to set up on a home computer. Except it's not always on and doesn't come with backups.

I'm not saying S3 is where it's at but might need a bit more than just Samba. Or maybe you don't but people who need Dropbox do.

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

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Post by Zm44 »

redat00 wrote: post #46
vitalscope wrote: post #39

That 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.

funny enough the guy behind the project also has an app like that https://github.com/zmeyer44/OpenVitals (and regarding contributors for all of his projects, it's mostly vibe-coded)

Think of OpenVitals more as "Don't pay $300/yr for a chatGPT wrapper medical app, just use this with your existing test results for free"

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

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Post by nickjj »

throwaway5465 wrote: post #38
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.

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

Yep, I use rsync to sync files / directories between my desktop, laptop and even phone (Android). Also an external drive.

I ended up creating https://github.com/nickjj/bmsu which calls rsync under the hood but helps you build up a valid rsync command with no surprises. It also codifies each of your backup / restore strategies so you're not having to run massively long rsync commands each time. It's 1 shell script with no dependencies except rsync.

Nothing leaves my local network since it's all local file transfers.

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

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Post by bitexploder »

kristianc wrote: post #18

We've officially come full circle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Every so often someone is like, Dropbox isn’t that hard. Look at this amazing ZFS/whatever! So simple. Yeah, I keep paying Dropbox every year so I don’t have to think about it. I shoot a sync off to backblaze every once in a while.

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

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Post by bitexploder »

ryangittins wrote: post #24
kristianc wrote: post #18

We've officially come full circle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Hah, wow. A post with an ID under 10k. Meanwhile this one is over 47M. I didn't realize I've been reading HN nearly its whole existence. For all my complaining about what's happened to the internet since those days, HN has managed to stay high quality without compromising.

At least, here the biases are well known. I have been here since the beginning as well. :)

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

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Post by lain98 »

I use archive storage class on google cloud, to store old movies and wedding videos, pictures of old vacations.

For everything else I use paid onedrive subscription. The biggest problem is user interface with s3 like storage and predictable pricing because remember you also pay for data retrieval and other storage apis, with dropbox etc you pay a fixed amount. Every year or so I roll over data into the bucket.

But for infrequently accessed data its fine.

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

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Post by giarc »

ryangittins wrote: post #24
kristianc wrote: post #18

We've officially come full circle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Hah, wow. A post with an ID under 10k. Meanwhile this one is over 47M. I didn't realize I've been reading HN nearly its whole existence. For all my complaining about what's happened to the internet since those days, HN has managed to stay high quality without compromising.

I think a big reason is you are not notified when someone replies to your comment. It reduces heated back and forth arguments.

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

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Post by bitexploder »

throwaway5465 wrote: post #38
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.

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

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

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

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Post by mleo »

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)

This is my go to solution for code sync across macOS laptop, Windows VMs, and Linux VMs to build and run/debug across environments. Unless something has changed, exclusions of build artifacts was always an issue with cloud sync providers. I have been doing more cross compilation on macOS, copy and run on those other machines lately for prototypes, but for IDE based debugging it’s great to edit local or remote and get it all synced to the machine to run it in seconds.
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