FUSE with S3 is awesome. I have a few local mounts, including using it as my Git upstream, and it Just Works(tm)
10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
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Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#122I wish google drive worked on the Mac! At least once a day it decides it can’t work and tells my to unmount it.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#123Worth noting that it's not actually "Google" that said to "hang tight". An entire brand does not make a decision like whether to support Linux. It's a two-pizza team with a shitty budget and a remit to just keep the damn thing from going down and working out all the bugs with basic features like moving a file to a new folder in a weird drop-down. I'm sure the team would like to support Linux, if they had a bigger bud…
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#124We use Google drive at my corporate, and half the devs are on Linux. I wonder if this space was more competitive if Google would feel more urgency. A part of the issue is we use Google for calendar and email as well.
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#125I’m glad that Dropbox provides a Linux client, although it is annoying that it is limited to x86 and ext4. At least the latter can be worked around with a loopback device.
Dropbox works on zfs, xfs and btrfs just fine.
Source: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/syste...
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m curious, what do you use to access files on your NAS? I’ve used Samba for forever but it’s always been kind of annoying to deal with permissions, and whilst running AD would probably solve that, I then have to deal with running AD. I’m tempted to try switching to NFS instead.
Samba. I tried AD very briefly before realizing how absolutely terrible of an idea it was. It just makes life so complicated, and AD integration was not as good as I was hoping. I can see why this market constantly has all kinds of crazy offerings… As far as permissions go, I guess I am mostly ignoring granular permissions. I’m generally only concerned with permissions on a per-share basis. This way, file permissions…
SMB3 is secure over the internet. But you really have to make sure it is an encrypted connection. In Samba you do this by adding:
server min protocol = SMB3 smb encrypt = required
to the [global] section of your smb.conf.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be even more confusing, it’s also possible to chat and video conference with the Gmail app. But maybe this changes tomorrow who knows?
They removed the ability to install the dedicated chat app and moved it all into the Gmail app. Infuriating. Oh, and it opens all links on the built-in chrome browser instead of respecting your default browser settings. There is no option to change the behavior.
The separate chat app still exists (at least on Android). I have it, because I often like to copy and paste between them.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#128Just give us a web filesystem already. Stop with these shitty infantilized GUIs with no hierarchical organization and an overreliance on search to find things. I have literally hundreds of thousands to millions of files on my local machines and have no trouble remembering where I put things. Drive can't seem to scale past a few dozen before it's confusing, useless, and apparently lossy. Remember when web servers woul…
Actually Google did made a version of Google Drive Filestream for Linux, and made it available it Google Colab, just that they never released it publicly for unknown reason. I have grabbed the binary of it. https://github.com/michaellee8/gdrivefs/tree/master/assets
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#129https://www.insynchq.com/ solved that long time ago. I even use them as preferred client on my mac for years because Google's client is pretty bad in my opinion.
And happy that there is software from Filipino developers and software out there!
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#130I use pop os and just by login with my google account it's show my drive in the file explorer