I've been using drive for work because sheets+keep are convenient as hell, and my work isn't too sensitive. I didn't mind uploading stuff to the drive botnet because it was all through a browser and I could choose to keep my private life private. But now it looks like I'd have to install some program that wants to crawl my whole filesystem, in secret in not openly.
What do I do if I need spreadsheets that sync between my computer an phone on the fly? Set up a vpn server? Is there a spreadsheet app that will sync the way I want it to?
"backup and sync" is way less marketable, what a terrible decision
Nathaniel Lopez
Take the long route and stop being lazy. or set up your own FTP server.
Colton Reed
Google always seem to get away with shitty decisions regarding their services. I just remembered Google inbox was a thing.
Nicholas Sullivan
Inbox is really good though, I still have it on my phone.
David Gutierrez
You and twelve other people.
What bothers me most is that they are killing 3rd party software which is based on streaming files from Gdrive. I use an audio player via company wifi to stream lossless audio from my gdrive. That will go away, rendering this feature of a PAID android software useless.
Not to mention what this might mean to Insync and similar, which are providing gdrive software for linux machines
Carson Thomas
>You and twelve other people
Same argument can be made for anything though, I don't really see your point.
Jack Bennett
I love that >your choices: >update now >update later Lmao how about never
Joshua White
use mega.nz or make your own file storage server
Lincoln Harris
>update to someone else more likely.
Angel Lee
That article title is clickbait garbage and that author should be genocided. Google Drive (website, including Docs/Sheets/Photos/etc) will still exist. Google Drive (desktop sync application) is being replaced with Backup and Sync.
Noah Smith
Google is always terrible at naming their products.
Ethan Rogers
>But now it looks like I'd have to install some program that wants to crawl my whole filesystem, in secret in not openly. Fwiw you can still sync your google drive folder without having to add other folders from your computer Just make sure those other folders are unchecked in the preferences
Jonathan Adams
Just use a office suite such as MS office or something and owncloud on a VPS
Hunter Gonzalez
Nextcloud + OnlyOffice / Collabora Office
Zachary James
this would be a good thread to post drive links full of good shit...
Chase Ortiz
What the actual fuck did you do to your font rendering
John Perry
Inbox is great. What is your problem with it?
It's way better than their original Gmail app.
Gabriel Mitchell
A spreadsheet application for the phone + file sync. Your file sync options include - Dropbox (but see pic related) - SpiderOak (but the client's slow) - ownCloud (but it's buggy) - Seafile (but see github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/350) -Syncthing (but it's only peer-to-peer, no central server)
John Sanders
use Degoo
Robert Richardson
Might have to do with me copying+pasting the screenshot into ms paint
Aiden Rogers
bump
Connor Jackson
google drive easily has the worse user interface there is.
Xavier Adams
Sort of related
I'm looking to buy a chromebook now that I'm back at Uni. Last laptop I had was maybe 10 years ago and I can't keep using the library computers since they close at 6pm.
I saw the Acer R11 at Best Buy today for 250$. Anybody have an opinion on it? Is the protection plan worth it?
Eli Brooks
use a USB
Jaxson Sanchez
>Is the protection plan worth it? Maybe credit cards offer extended warranties on the items purchased on them
Jason Howard
Youtube Red flopped completely though Same with Youtube Gaming that is just Youtube streaming but with a different layout that is now also the regular layout
Jackson Morgan
The Google Drive web interface and shit will still exist, it's just the desktop app named Google Drive for syncing that won't.
Luke Reyes
Got you my man. All of these were from when Sup Forums found a lot of public Gdrives. No idea if they all still work
I would buy it with an amex which as "purchase protection"
would that be sufficient? I'm pretty careful with my stuff anyway
Jaxson Cooper
check the terms and conditions of amex for their purchase protection plan
Keep your receipt for the purchase and the credit card statement that has the purchase on it. The purchase must be made in full on the CC to usually be eligible.
Jonathan Lewis
>2012+5 >using anything by an advertising company >using anything by an SJW company >using anything by a company that fights free speech >using anything by a company that scans your emails and drive for contraband >using anything by a company whose business models is violation of your privacy >using anything by the most evil company in tech today kys for being stupid
Charles Green
>Lmao how about never lmao like how wannacry exclusively affected those who refused to update XD
Hunter Lopez
Great, another uninspired blue circular logo to infect my app drawer
Gavin Adams
Goddamn, you're retarded
Bentley Martinez
"Think of the children!" is truly the worst thing ever. >the most evil company in tech today Facebook, Microsoft and Google are tied for this title.
Austin Ross
What's so great about it? My experience with Inbox: >has a shitty flat design >it's confusing to navigate and use >it's a js bloated mess I immediately went back to the old Gmail.
Aiden Roberts
>Facebook, Microsoft and Google are tied for this title. Microsoft is too incompetent and are slowly fading out to irrelevancy to be dangerous anymore. I agree with the other too though.
Lincoln Martin
To match known examples of child pornography, google must itself possess child pornography. If you truly hate pedophiles, boycott these terrible child pornographers at google. Just think of the children.
Jacob Martin
t. pedo
Levi Scott
t. Poe
Nathan Baker
>google must itself possess child pornography They could only posses checksums or some sort of image fingerprints.
Henry Clark
>what is a hash
Jaxon Parker
And where do you think the would get those, nowhere other than their real child porn. Absolutely disgusting. Google is irredeemable.
Christopher Taylor
Bump up your price to 300-350 and you get get some really value Chromebooks like the Thinkpad one or Acer r13. If you plan on not dropping your laptop protection plan is useless.
Liam Murphy
>And where do you think the would get those Probably from the US government
Joseph Lopez
File stream will do the same shit, but not store any files locally. Google drive is only being shut down for Windows\OSX. Drive should still work whatever retarded way it does on android\ios as it does now.
