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Become worthless (to tech companies) • Cory Dransfeldt (www.coryd.dev)
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[–] frizop@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You may be able to replace dropbox with either localsend and/or syncthing

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LocalSend wasn't the vibe coded one, right? I remember there was one that was, but can't remember which one.
Anyway, LocalSend looks like brilliant!

[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I think that was rsync

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

While I use those and they are great, we use dorpbox for video and have the 30tb plan which is needed. My friend has no local setup cuz he's afraid of losing it all as its his job. He does video editing on a Mac and likes Dropbox features (regardless that they are stealing all his video and using it to train bots to take his job in the future, but he doesnt care )

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

If his data only exists in one place, it's at high risk of being lost anyway. The cloud is not a backup. Plenty of stories of people losing data in the cloud because of bugs/mistakes, companies closing down, hardware failure, etc.

[–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seconding the recommendation for LocalSend!

[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I like localsend more than kde connect. I like to play around with different Roms on old android phones and would install kde connect every time I wanted to send screenshots and it would enable by default all permissions which I didn't want except for file sharing

Oh and localsend is written in flutter which is going to (hopefully) become better because canonical is gonna help improve the Linux side of things