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degoogling [2025/10/05 22:59] – [Google Drive] Fix lists qlyoungdegoogling [2025/10/10 20:09] (current) – [Google Drive] link to filestash, nextcloud qlyoung
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 Sometime around 2021 I began to feel that use of Google services constituted a grave threat to my digital sovereignty, and began slowly moving off of them. Sometime around 2021 I began to feel that use of Google services constituted a grave threat to my digital sovereignty, and began slowly moving off of them.
  
-Here in 2024 I still have a Google account and probably will for the foreseeable future, because Google Fi and Google Fiber remain the best cell service and internet service providers, and you need a Google account to pay for them.+Here in 2025 I still have a Google account and probably will for the foreseeable future, because Google Fi and Google Fiber remain the best cell service and internet service providers, and you need a Google account to pay for them.
  
 Today I use my Google account for five things: Today I use my Google account for five things:
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 Tried and rejected: Tried and rejected:
-  * Filestash - kept running out of space on cloud VMs, software buggy +  * [[https://www.filestash.app/|Filestash]] - kept running out of space on cloud VMs, S3 integration setup is a little scary, software buggy 
-  * Nextcloud - too heavy to host a public instance just for filesharing+  * [[https://nextcloud.com/|Nextcloud]] - I use this on my intranet, but it's too heavy to host a separate public instance just for filesharing
   * [[https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole|magic wormhole]] - works, but people don't want to install programs to receive files and the mobile story is bad. shout out [[https://rymdport.github.io/|rymdport]] for favorite client.   * [[https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole|magic wormhole]] - works, but people don't want to install programs to receive files and the mobile story is bad. shout out [[https://rymdport.github.io/|rymdport]] for favorite client.
   * [[https://syncthing.net/|Syncthing]] - It's a sync program, it isn't intended for unidirectional file transfer and thus doesn't work well for that purpose   * [[https://syncthing.net/|Syncthing]] - It's a sync program, it isn't intended for unidirectional file transfer and thus doesn't work well for that purpose
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 === Cloud storage === === Cloud storage ===
  
-Okay, "cloud storage" is not really a function. There's two reasons we use personal cloud storage:+Okay, "cloud storage" is not really a function. There's two main reasons we use personal cloud storage:
  
   - So that we can store files in one logical "place" and then access them from any device   - So that we can store files in one logical "place" and then access them from any device
   - To save space on our devices   - To save space on our devices
  
-After spending huge amounts of time on building out personal cloud storage infrastructure, I finally realized that I fundamentally hate network storage. It requires a network and even when you have one it's too slow. I killed both of these birds with a paradigm shift.+There's other reasons, mostly to do with reliability engineering, but those are the main two.
  
-1. Established that 8tb could store all of my frequently accessed files; +TL;DR I now use [[tiered storage]]; what little need I have for internet-attached storage is now met by my home server, which has a lot of storage and is always accessible via tailscale. More on that in [[personal infrastructure]].
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-2. Upgraded every computer I own to have at least 8tb of storage; +
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-3. Synced all files to all computers with Syncthing. +
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-I no longer use or need cloud storage.+
 ==== Google Photos ==== ==== Google Photos ====
  
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