R.L. Dane    🍵 May 11

Google Drive: "Your storage is 95+% full!"
Google Drive: "Would you like to empty your trash?"
YES.
Go to Trash
Select all
Google Drive: "There's 3GB of files to delete!"
Delete them!
Google Drive: "You cleaned up 307 MB!!"

WHAT. HOW are you this inept?!?

#Google #GoogleDrive #GDrive #Slop

Show threadPete OrrallMay 11
@rl_dane Hilarious especially coming from a tech company that owns the world
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 

@peteorrall

Yeah, the funny thing is I find out how to actually select every single file in the trash can, but then it wouldn't let me delete them. It said it was too many selected. What is this garbage, even?

May 11 at 3:17amWeb
Show threadPete OrrallMay 11

@rl_dane I moved my email from #GMail to another provider. I still have 1/2 TB in my #Google Drive. Looking forward to the day when I can move my stuff from Google Drive. It's a quirky and #mediocre service.

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I think that's also my biggest gripe with Google's products. They are mediocre and bland compared to other options but they are free and Google's integration makes it too convenient and their "walled garden" makes it difficult to leave.

Plus, it's not like that company has a stellar track record for privacy.
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Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 May 11

@peteorrall

I'm leaning towards a nextcloud provider in Switzerland. ;)

cc: @amin @thedoctor

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@rl_dane @peteorrall @amin @thedoctor uhh you only kinda have infomaniak as an option if you don't want to breal the bank for a vps or anything else.

If you DO wany to break the bank, then you can go with exoscale, they have extremely good services (i had to use a vps from them for some work, they were snappy, the interface was really good, idk right now how it looks) but their prices are so so high, like for the specs I have rn, 8gb ram, 4 cores, 75gb storage, i pay ovh 8€+tax+conversion tax. With exoscale i should be paying a whole 10 cents every hour (if you add the equivalent storage, as it's not included) and it amounts to almost 50€ a month

The problem with infomaniak is that they do some shady stuff sometimes, like promoting their email and drive suite as encrypted, but it's only gmail-style encrypted in transfer. And they also supported that swiss bill that would force providers to store metadata for everything and pushed proton to start moving it's infrastructure to germany (Lumo, for example).