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Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by tambourine_man »

hamandcheese wrote: post #94
tambourine_man wrote: post #93

Use rclone and be happy. Seriously, I haven't tried Google Drive for Desktop but I won't even bother, given their track record. Rclone is simply amazing, the developers are responsive, it supports every backend on the planet. It's a single lightweight binary written in Go, runs on Linux, Mac, Win, x86 and ARM, every feature you could ever need, thoroughly documented… oh, and open source. I mean, what else could one w…

Looking at the rclone feature set, it’s not clear if it provides a daemon to continuously synchronize a folder. I imagine that this is high up on the list of what “normal users” care about. For power users, though, rclone does look quite nice.

It doesn't.

But you can set a script to sync it periodically and it allows you to mount any remote as a network drive.

But of course, this is HN, a target audience that's generally to be able to use a command line tool and write a simple script.

I wouldn't recommend it on a regular users forum.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by sally1620 »

Why can't they just do the same as dropbox or onedrive, where they use Windows file system filters on a regular folder (no mount points).

To all the people who suggest alternatives, our entire org is run by xooglers and they put everything in Google Drive. I have no choice but to use this crap. To make matters worse, I cannot use any third-party client (or even roll my own) because it is not allowed by the security policy.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by deepsun »

tyingq wrote: post #60
deepsun wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Promotions.

I see you're being downvoted, but I do wonder to what degree that might be true. Working on a team that maintains something old isn't terribly glorious. Rename the product, and now you have a "product launch" on your resume.

My comment wasn't downvoted, it's actually my most upvoted comment on HN.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by lostmsu »

tambourine_man wrote: post #93

Use rclone and be happy. Seriously, I haven't tried Google Drive for Desktop but I won't even bother, given their track record. Rclone is simply amazing, the developers are responsive, it supports every backend on the planet. It's a single lightweight binary written in Go, runs on Linux, Mac, Win, x86 and ARM, every feature you could ever need, thoroughly documented… oh, and open source. I mean, what else could one w…

Syncthing is a better alternative.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by utucuro »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #100
Toutouxc wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The prices of block storage on DO are pretty steep, I'm seeing $50 a month for 500 GB..? Am I missing something?

There are cheap Nextcloud instance available elsewhere, such as Hetzner. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

So, I've been curious about nextcloud for a good while, does Hetzner keep the version of NextCloud up-to-date? Which functionality is included? I'm also looking at Tab.digital from the Nextcloud hosting partners list and they seem to offer a lot of functionality at the private cloud tier that is roughly the same price as the NX20 tier at Hetzner with less storage. I do not need a lot of storage, but having the ability to make extensive use of Nextcloud integrations would be nice, which is not clear from Hetzner's comparison chart.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by benhurmarcel »

utucuro wrote: post #107
benhurmarcel wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are cheap Nextcloud instance available elsewhere, such as Hetzner. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

So, I've been curious about nextcloud for a good while, does Hetzner keep the version of NextCloud up-to-date? Which functionality is included? I'm also looking at Tab.digital from the Nextcloud hosting partners list and they seem to offer a lot of functionality at the private cloud tier that is roughly the same price as the NX20 tier at Hetzner with less storage. I do not need a lot of storage, but having the abilit…

Yes, they take care of the maintenance and updates. You get an instance with a specific url, and an admin account in which you can activate/deactivate modules ("apps") and manage user accounts.

As far as I can tell you can get the same features as if you managed your own instance.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by swayson »

Gigachad wrote: post #10
swayson wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No idea, not sure if it is the next generation of users, forcing the change, or something more nefarious. ultimately, "control is an illusion"

What kind of evil plot do you think google is behind here? Seems like a completely legitimate change to me.

Slippery slope, slowly conditioning people, and before you know it. Only a select few may have the ability to use general computers.

Speculation, but plausible. I'd look at the broader trends, not just this one event. Rather, the series of events and the dark pattern behind it.

Re: Disable Google Drive drive letter

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Post by mleonhard »

zomglings wrote: post #61
deepsun wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Promotions.

I think my parent comment gets pretty close to the heart of the issue. I don't think it deserves its downvotes. It is a problem of employee incentives. There are multiple internal approaches to building things. Several of these approaches get funding and head count based on the amount of influence of the people who back them. Decisions about which product to present to the public are made on technical merit with litt…

I also worked at Google. Now I'm using Google's Flutter to build a mobile app. I worry that Flutter will stagnate and become unusable on mobile before I can afford native rewrites. Flutter's mobile support is already stagnating. Flutter Team has left many mobile features half-implemented: iOS widgets [0], dark mode [1], location [2], and camera [3]. They even hired an outside company to work on Flutter mobile extensions [4]. Flutter's engineers have moved on to web and desktop. Others have written [5] about this.

Beware depending on any Google tool for your business.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/d51o4w/were_the...

[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/80860

[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/31453

[3] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/70751

[4] https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-package-ecosystem-update-...

[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/ju2zza/flutters...

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