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Do Google use Google Drive on Linux internally? Isn't Linux used a lot there?
There's a Google-wide shared file system that is mounted on all gLinux workstations, but it has nothing to do with Google Drive.
I connected my Linux systems to my Nextcloud server, and then I connected my Gdrive as external storage in Nextcloud. When I turned on server side encryption in Nextcloud it also encrypted my connected storage of Gdrive. So I accomplished both Gdrive integration as well as file encryption at the same time.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but nextcloud constantly somehow manages to corrupt data it is storing locally. Its only user is an android backup agent. Is there something that's, say, 1% as complicated as nextcloud that can sync multiple devices without giving a cloud provider access to cleartext (while also keeping an encrypted backup in the cloud)?
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You nailed it. Every 3 years google renames and rebadges their chat system. I don't even know what to call it anymore.
I've posted this link before in comments, but for anyone who's not read this arstechnica piece it is well worth it: A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...
How do they keep failing over and over, in the same way, when these failures are a well-known embarrassment?
You'd think the CEO would either just ban development of new messaging apps or pick a winner and give it the same kind of care and feeding as GMail.
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It's market share, but I suspect Google's numbers may be skewed here by their measurement system. They almost certainly have hard numbers on the percent of users accessing the UI via various platform configs, and the Linux numbers are low. Question is if that's because they haven't cracked into the market because they aren't offering desktop integration. The other interesting question is: what are Linux users using i…
My experience is that data-driven companies get into self-reinforcing circles: - Data shows not a lot of customers use Linux - Which leads to poor Linux support - Which leads to not a lot of customers using Linux That's not specific to this either. I've seen companies discount continents of people due to lack of customers on those continents, which was often due to inanely easy-to-solve problems. But if you only have…
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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.
Honestly, I don’t mind a VPN moat on top of even that, but it’s definitely a good tip. Any unencrypted data over a VPN is a liability anyways. That said: for the moment, I still have some SMB1 clients inside my network. Yes, this is terrible, and frankly it is surprising Samba still supports it (I won’t be too surprised or too angry if it gets removed now that it’s separated out.) I should probably segregate SMB1 cli…
--without-smb1-server
and the SMB1 code is no longer compiled into the binary :-).
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I'm pretty sure there was a Google+ chat, and who remembers Google Talk?
And Wave, whatever that was?
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I've posted this link before in comments, but for anyone who's not read this arstechnica piece it is well worth it: A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-...
> A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps How do they keep failing over and over, in the same way, when these failures are a well-known embarrassment? You'd think the CEO would either just ban development of new messaging apps or pick a winner and give it the same kind of care and feeding as GMail.
It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem or revenue-stream significant enough that it takes on a life of it’s own. As management turns over, that lease on life is renewed… https://killedbygoogle.com/ While this fosters new ideas…
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