What's wrong with GG Drive? In my country people use GG Drive to share all kind of files.
Dropbox Transfer
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#212What's wrong with GG Drive? In my country people use GG Drive to share all kind of files.
Is this specific to Eastern Europe? I’ve never had anyone send me a GG link!
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#213Good to see them finally doing something addressing actual user needs for a change, instead of chasing greener pastures. Given my informal observations over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if transferring large files was the main need that drives users to Dropbox - when dealing with individuals and companies outside tech, I frequently saw them giving the advice to "get a Dropbox" when someone needed to send them m…
User needs and business models don't always align.
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#215I do music production as a side hobby. Virtually all the producers and studios I've worked with use WeTransfer. It's fast, efficient, and free. I can't see any reason to switch.
That's a really nice service, thanks for the rec. From the name I expected it to feel cheap like WeChat but I'm very glad to be wrong, it seems pretty much perfect.
How is WeChat cheap?
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been building a list[1] of file transfer tools with their perks, there's a few new ones from this thread that I will add. I used to run a transfer service myself but it wasn't up to scratch with the competition and it was costing me money so I decided to aggregate them instead. -- [1] https://fastest.fish/
> I've been building a list I just curios when found that MediaFire[0] service not added in this list yet ;) [0] https://www.mediafire.com
Added, thanks!
I definitely don't have them all!
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
what annoys me is the password part used to be a plus feature[1]. This is why I've started to try to move things to be self-hosted. Unfortunately I've been struggling with nextcloud + my NAS due to filesystem constraints. And it's to avoid silly crap like that that we enjoyed the cloud services. Ah, what a loop! [1]: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Files-folders/Was-the-abilit...
What kind of filesystem constraints problem you run into? I've been using nextcloud on a vps using docker and resizing/moving storage used by nextcloud is quite easy on this setup (simply update the container volume config)
attempting to use nextcloudpi on a pine64 rock64 with a mounted data directory (NFS share from my NAS). The data directory must be brtfs and I can't resize down / add in a partition on my NAS software. So i'm stuck for the moment.
I'll likely use a spare 1TB USB hard drive as data dir and backup regularly, i'm unlikely to use more space than that - or otherwise just host the whole thing on AWS instead of at home.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks fine to me. What's wrong with using asterisks as bullet points?
Markdown is pretty much a standard for non WYSIWYG enabled comment forms out there today.
Except it isn't. For my work I have about 5 different editors to work with, each with their own markup syntax.
The best markup is no markup, or at least as minimal as possible
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct, I use ZFS for my home directory. I do use APFS for everything else. But I’d have preferred to keep my Dropbox folder under my home so I got rid of Dropbox altogether.
To be honest the market for ZFS support must be quite small, and the semantics just different enough to cause unpleasant bugs, so I wouldn't blame them for that. Interestingly, there are signs that they have been working on support for a wider range of file systems: https://itsfoss.com/dropbox-brings-back-linux-filesystem-sup...
Good point.