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What I Use Instead of Google

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Re: What I Use Instead of Google

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Post by oauea »

rrdharan wrote: post #145
oauea wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I know what DuckDuckGo is. The comment also said: > Apple Maps is available on the web

They're probably referring to https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs which is what powers the DDG integration. Anyway it is the case that the only way to browse Apple Maps via the web (AFAICT) is via an integration like DDG: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-use-apple-maps-right-in... So yeah saying it is available on the web feels a bit disingenuous, but it is, kind of, indirectly.

Ah, that is bizarre. But I've never understood Apple. Thanks for explaining.

Re: What I Use Instead of Google

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Post by dopu »

wtmt wrote: post #52

> Maps → Apple maps If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it's been in (except for a few countries and regions in certain countries that Apple likes and works more on). > and still a little YouTube (anonymously in a Firefox container) If a Firefox…

I never use the DDG results when looking for something. People on here will sometimes say that the results are as good as Google, but it's just not true in my experience. I would switch completely to Startpage, but I value the !bang feature too much. So for general searches, everything is prefaced with !sp. It's just muscle memory now.

Re: What I Use Instead of Google

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Post by modeitsch »

dhimes wrote: post #111

Google's gotten weird. Yesterday I was doing some keyword planning and got a negative (-) cpc and cost. I looked everywhere to try to determine what that meant and didn't find anything. They have online chat support, so I tried that. I got routed to a sales rep who called me on the phone and who, after taking all my information while basically ignoring my question, finally heard me. She didn't know the answer. She se…

I planned a google ad campaign with a 200 TOTAL budget. A google representative helped me setting up the account, after 4 days she calls me back and said that my ad is doing very well, And it’s already holding at 800$. Till now google didn’t give me back my money with claiming that I don’t have prof. They are not willing to listen to there own phone systems recording’s because they know that I’m right. So basically WE ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER WE ARE THE PRODUCT

Re: What I Use Instead of Google

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Post by RealStickman_ »

modeitsch wrote: post #153
dhimes wrote: post #111

Google's gotten weird. Yesterday I was doing some keyword planning and got a negative (-) cpc and cost. I looked everywhere to try to determine what that meant and didn't find anything. They have online chat support, so I tried that. I got routed to a sales rep who called me on the phone and who, after taking all my information while basically ignoring my question, finally heard me. She didn't know the answer. She se…

I planned a google ad campaign with a 200 TOTAL budget. A google representative helped me setting up the account, after 4 days she calls me back and said that my ad is doing very well, And it’s already holding at 800$. Till now google didn’t give me back my money with claiming that I don’t have prof. They are not willing to listen to there own phone systems recording’s because they know that I’m right. So basically W…

How's the legality of recording a call if the other party does that as well?

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Post by discardedrefuse »

executesorder66 wrote: post #45
comex wrote: post #15

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If you're just looking for personal sync (as opposed to collaboration), Syncthing [1] is a common recommendation, though personally I've had better luck with Unison [2]. [1] https://syncthing.net [2] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Thanks, I already use syncthing for some stuff, and it's great. However I should clarify: One of the reasons I want to move my data to a cloud server is that I am running out of space for more hard drives on my PC. So syncthing will work for editing stuff on my local and syncing the changes with my cloud server. But I don't want to store all my data on cloud _and_ on my local PC. I want something where it is usually…

I use OneDrive for work. The desktop app has "Files-On-Demand" (enabled by default). It keeps everything in the cloud until you click on a file. Then it downloads a local copy and keeps it in sync with the cloud. You can also manually designate files to "Always keep on this device" or "Free up space". You can take space saving even further with Storage Sense in Windows 10. It can delete local copies of files that haven't been used for a designated amount of time (Never by default).

Is Microsoft better than Google? Probably not. I don't know of any open source or self hosted solution this robust. You might want to consider getting a NAS; which lets you mount a network share on your local PC and use your normal file manager.

Re: What I Use Instead of Google

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Post by rakoo »

executesorder66 wrote: post #60
wtmt wrote: post #55

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Do you have local (non-cloud) backups? If yes, that's great, but otherwise I wouldn't recommend a cloud-only (or a single backup) approach to storing important data.

I currently have backups on some external drives. But I plan on also doing backups with blackblaze or somewhere similar. My plan for the cloud server is just to have a central place to access all my (and my wife's) files from any device. But then my problem is, as I mentioned earlier, how do I bulk edit/organize those files using desktop software?

It feels like you're looking for something like git-annex (https://git-annex.branchable.com/). I've never used it but read a bit about it, here's how you would use it:

- Install git-annex on your cloud

- Tell git-annex that you have a remote there

- Do your stuff on your local drive, push to the cloud when it's done

- If some of the files are not needed locally, tell git-annex to drop them from your local drive. git-annex knows that there is another copy in a safe storage

- If you want to work on some files you don't have, ask git-annex to transfer them to you.

The manual steps might be a bit tedious, so git-annex also has an assistant mode that is a good-enough copy of dropbox (https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/). See the archival walkthrough, that seems to fit your use case (https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/)

(I have more or less the same need, but haven't committed to doing it just yet)

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Post by cj »

RealStickman_ wrote: post #155
modeitsch wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I planned a google ad campaign with a 200 TOTAL budget. A google representative helped me setting up the account, after 4 days she calls me back and said that my ad is doing very well, And it’s already holding at 800$. Till now google didn’t give me back my money with claiming that I don’t have prof. They are not willing to listen to there own phone systems recording’s because they know that I’m right. So basically W…

How's the legality of recording a call if the other party does that as well?

If there's a message that says "This call may be recorded..." then I would consider that to be adequate consent for either party to record the call, not just 1 party.

But IANAL.

Re: What I Use Instead of Google

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Post by Netcob »

That little downtime recently that in some places looked like Google had deleted my account got me quite a shock and made me re-evaluate my dependence on Google too.

For anyone looking for a simple self-hosted file sync system I'd recommend Seafile though. It has delta sync (like Dropbox) and great performance. I finally switched to it after years of increasing frustration with Nextcloud, which has none of these things.

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