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Post by Veratyr »

staticelf wrote: post #9
vmay wrote: post #2

Can anyone recommend an alternative?

I can recommend spideroak.com

And I can recommend against it.

I attempted to use them for a while but found the upload speeds of their (proprietary and closed) clients to be utterly useless for anything more than a trivial amount of data.

Everything I found pointed to it being a client issue (the client was simply not uploading 90% of the time and my PC was more than capable of performing the required encryption and hashing operations far faster than my network connection could accept the bits) so I opened a ticket and talked to their support for over 6 months (!!!) and in the end they decided to just refund my money.

If you have a trivial amount of data, go ahead and use the $7, 30GB plan but don't fall for their 1TB plan, there's no way you can get close to using it.

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geomark wrote: post #40
erikb wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope he took from his down swing how to recognize these. That's a huge negative impact on one's life, having such kind of friends. Even on the good days they suck out your energy without you realizing it. And again, I think even as such a friend you don't have a happy life.

I think he (my friend, not Kim) ended up deciding he preferred his fake friends because they were so much better at being "friends". His real friends would call him out and tell him to get real when he started getting too full of himself due to his new wealth. His fake friends were always supportive regardless of how outrageous his behavior became (and it went way over the top). I guess it is kind of a selection bias…

Yeah, we all are like that in our naive form. Only through bad experience and the ability to learn from failure we can overcome that. Only few people have that ability, and some are "lucky" and never have such a bad experience until the end, but I would assume they still feel something missing yet never realise what it is.
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