teardownthewalls
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I replaced google drive with koofr. Very happy so far! Still unsure what I’m doing about Google wallet/Google pay…
How are Heliboard and Here Wego?
Sounds like something you’d say before engaging in some good ol’ fashioned extortion…
4·19 days agoAnd the Darwin Award goes to…
No worries, thanks for your original post 👌
12·19 days agoWrong place wrong time during a controlled demolition
🇮🇪 Sally Rooney
🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere
🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse
🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante
I checked out nextcloud and koofr when switching from Google drive and settled on koofr. In terms of the criteria you outlined above:
- Decent desktop client + network drive which appears like a USB key in your file system, super usable
- Very good android app
- No document editing but you can open everything from the network drive using the editing software on your device and it syncs to the cloud
- Nice price (45 euro for 200GB, which is all I need)
- Downside: no integrated document suite for editing in the browser but the workaround with the network drive is very straightforward (one click to enable in the desktop client)
I don’t need a massive amount of cloud storage, in the terabytes, say, so I’ve found koofr ideal for my purposes. Another bonus for me is it’s a Slovene company so must be GDPR compliant.
5·20 days agoI remember seeing this as well. I’m much more of a Brian Blessed than a Stephen Fry, unfortunately for my pain threshold…
This is a big part of why I love them so much. Hardly a week goes by that I don’t think of the “boots theory of socio-economic unfairness” from Men at Arms!
Bill Phillips seems like a pretty cool guy, certainly fits the mad scientist archetype!
I actually haven’t read Making Money but I will now :)
I learned this term from Terry Pratchett a few years ago as the disc in discworld rotates and the four cardinal directions are rimward, hubward, turnwise and widdershins. Instead of north south east west.
Edit: though I never knew it was a real word!
Yep would’ve switched to koofr ages ago but I’ve been happy with the Google drive experience until I wasn’t…
Koofr is great, very user friendly!
7·22 days agoUrly (Italy) and urlr (France)
From here: https://www.goeuropean.org/, haven’t actually used either myself but maybe you can report back some time if you go ahead with one or both?
To your list, I’ve also switched out:
- Gmail for mailbox.org
- Google calendar for calengoo
- Drive for koofr
- Netflix for Mubi
- Google docs for onlyoffice
- Edit: and chrome for Vivaldi
No complaints so far, they don’t all have exactly the same functions as the products I replaced, but they very much do the job and I’m happy overall.
Koofr and mailbox also respond rapidly to tech help requests 👍
4·23 days agoOof, yeah, France really pulled out the big guns in the second half. They have one hand on the trophy now.
That reverse pass was really one for the highlight reel
Gutted he went off…
My favourite series of all time is Brideshead Revisited (UK, 1981). A beautiful and melancholic look at British high society between the wars, following the recollections of one Charles Ryder as he remembers his youth, college years and early adulthood. Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews give star performances as the two leads, while John Gielgud and Lawrence Olivier steal the show as their respective fathers.
Also I’ve been quite partial to the range of crime dramas from N. European countries. Ones I can remember offhand include:
- The Killing (Sweden), award winning crime drama, multiple remakes
- The Bridge (Denmark and Sweden), possibly the apotheosis of the Nordic crime drama subgenre
- Endeavour (UK) a prequel to Inspector Morse
- Jack Taylor (Ireland) gritty police procedural from the West of Ireland
- Corp & Anam (Ireland) Irish language crime drama, great cast
- Wallander (Sweden, UK remake) long running series, also remade a few times
- Poirot (UK) charming and eccentric series based on the Agatha Christie stories
- There are many others but that’s what I came up with on the fly
Also Father Ted is something the Irish are still very proud of. 3 misfit priests are exiled to an island off the west coast where they get up to all kind of ridiculous high-jinks. The show lampoons Irish culture and society in the 1990s, and absolutely eviscerates the Irish Catholic Church.
And there is of course a wealth of excellent stuff out of the UK: comedies and dramas, sketch shows and miniseries.
Also a fan of mailbox having switched