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degoogling [2025/10/06 04:06] – Move cloud storage writing to tiered storage page qlyoungdegoogling [2026/02/12 17:07] (current) – [Search] 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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 ==== Search ==== ==== Search ====
  
-I now pay for [[https://kagi.com/|Kagi]].+I pay for [[https://kagi.com/|Kagi]]; and in 2025 onward, I don't need to use that much either now that we have effective LLMs.
 ==== Google Drive ==== ==== Google Drive ====
  
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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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