I've been wanting to see what the #ObsidianMD hype is all about, but I just can't get over how the only proper sync is the one that uses their own infra. I would love it if I could point it at my own infrastructure for that.
Sure, I could use sync clients, but those don't integrate well with the mobile app.
Alright, played around a bit with my #NextCloud sync, and that didn't do what I wanted because the android client doesn't sync new files from android back. That led me to look at #SyncThing, which I always thought was just a #Dropbox clone, but I didn't realise it was peer to peer, and it worked great.
Thanks for the advice all. Now I can give #Obsidian a fair shot, see if it's as good as it's cracked up to be.
A few weeks ago Dropbox added a really nice context menu to their menu bar app on #macOS. Then like a week later, they removed every item from the menu except the close Dropbox button. And now, the entire menu is just gone….
Just noticed myself doing an interesting thing:
I opened the pdf on my phone of a paper I wanted to read (synced via #Zotero -> #Zotfile -> #Dropbox), saw that it was published by #eLife, and thought "huh, this will be nicer to read via the website" and clicked the #DOI to read it there instead.
iCloud Drive has hit a very weird bug for me. I've used every Terminal and other solution. It stalls at a certain point—clearly a bad file or something. However, the Finder lacks good tools to pinpoint a fatal file. Does anyone know an Apple engineer I could send information to? It's clearly a combination of macOS and iCloud interaction. I can find other people with a similar problem online, but they typically solved it with one a number of techniques I've tried.
@johan@glennf A bit OT: The biggest irritating thing I've also found is files don't upload when the system is doing something CPU-intensive...and I hate that! When using #DropBox, system load doesn't stop DropBox from doing its job! Why should #iCloudDrive limit activity when system is busy! YES, #Apple, I am doing an #FFmpeg encode on my #M1! There's PLENTY of overhead for uploading to the cloud!
Is there such a thing as #flatfile#CMS that doesn't run on a webserver but rather can just sync between users on a cloud desktop sync like #Dropbox or #OneDrive?
I'm trying to put together a simple internal relational database-style site to share with my team without spinning up yet another cloud app to do it.
It would have tags, categories, a couple views of the data, and an input form. I know how to build such a thing in #Wordpress but trying to do it with minimal IT fuss or muss.
Did you know that if you change the dl=0 at the end of a dropbox link to dl=1 it'll just automatically download instead of taking you to that dumb webpage that plays videos terribly?
You did? Great.
DID YOU ALSO KNOW THAT IF YOU CHANGE IT TO raw=1 IT WILL LOAD THE ACTUAL FILE IN THE BROWSER WINDOW WTF HOW DID I JUST FIND THIS
What are my options for a sync service that's as usable and stable as #Dropbox? I'm not thrilled about their pivot to #AI and how that might be bootstrapped off of my private files.
On Feb 6th I connected the Dropbox integration in Neeva Search. To show Dropbox files in search, it first needs to "index" all your Dropbox files.
My work's Dropbox has A LOT of files.
So, here we are 3 months later, and the integration still has not finished 😆 . I've been tracking it in a Google Sheet. #dataviz#neeva#dropbox
Dropbox is the next company firing a significant amount of people to pursue the magical dragon "AI". Dropbox. A service that people just want to store their files, sync properly and make them shareable.
Sure they need some bullshit generators. The whole tech sector is just brain worms these days.
I'm still mad that #Dropbox was allowed to buy #boxCryptor since that was one of the few tools that mounted shit transparently well - including Amazon's "free unlimited could" for users...
Which was nifty to dump encrypted shit in so they'll waste their "facial detection" computation power on it...
Any recommendations for a (self-hosted) alternative? For a self hoste version I would really like the option to (securely) mirror it offsite (e.g team up with others and safe the data of each other. Ideally with E2E encryption)
@nextcloud looks most promising. But I don't know how the mirroring could be accomplished. The status and functionality of Open Cloud Mesh could be interesting.