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[–] urmums401k@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (29 children)

Linux is the only option.

Not because FOSS is glorious and the most communist your computer can be without violating the DMCA. Though it is also that, and you can seed generously from a machine running Linux.

Not because Linux is much better lately. It is BTW.

Not because using a system that is designed intelligently and respects you as a fucking adult and might not always be easy to use, but won't generally fight you, so solving problems feels collaborative rather than like youre a persecuted victim about to have everything you just learned and built crushed with the next patch feels really good and generally is an improving cool experience. Though, I mean, that should be enough on its own, right?

But because capitalism is in late stage decline and everything it touches is going to turn to shit and exploit you and surveil you and coerce you and infantipize the fuck out of you and you'll have to get on your knees and crush yourself in terrible ways to check your fucking email or you'll have to fight it tooth and nail every god damn inch fighting a different system each time you want to check your fucking email or see a naked picture of a hot person-even one they took for and sent to you directly.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago (28 children)

Last time I tried Linux there was no native Google Drive application and none of the third party ones worked properly to sync my files. Has that changed at all?? Don't tell me to stop using Google Drive I'm locked in for work

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I am confused. Google drive has been on my computer for years. I don't use it much, I don't like storing things there. But Dolphin just mounts it and treats it like another drive. Maybe I am missing something? Like when you use a certain application it doesn't see the google drive in the file dialog or something?

Here is a screen cap of the gdrive with folders in it: https://i.imgur.com/DjOc9xx.png

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your imgur link is down, but let me ask: are those files actually physically present on your hard drive or they streamed from the cloud server

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The imgur link is down? That would be bizarre. Opens on my desktop and my phone....

The files are on the google drive in the cloud. I believe there is a package to sync them with local files if I HAD to have them local. Or I suppose a rclone or syncthing script could run locally to do the same thing.

Do you need to disconnect your laptop from the cloud and then sync them later? Is that what I am missing?

It's that I need the files available locally across multiple devices, synced through the cloud. Ideally automatically, but I'd take a manual sync

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