Nitter link: https://nitter.net/Werner/status/1734890651378975007
It took a while, but the arc of history is starting to bend in favour of that guy who said 'just use rsync' on Drobox's Show HN post in 2007.
It took a while, but the arc of history is starting to bend in favour of that guy who said 'just use rsync' on Drobox's Show HN post in 2007.
It be interesting to see a breakdown on "time spent" between the people who went with Dropbox and started syncing stuff right away VS the people who first setup their own infrastructure to do the same thing.
For better or worse, even enough grad students at MIT (which used to be one of the more computers-clueful places) used Dropbox so heavily that they included the Dropbox logo on the grad class ring:
https://thetech.com/2013/09/06/gradrat-v133-n35
The class rings have considerable symbolism, and are very important to some. I've heard that the rings can also be real icebreakers at some startup events (between people with MIT connections):
That's because OS's don't bother to support rsync with good UX. That's what the old "My Briefcase" feature in Windows 9x was all about. It even had special-case support for difference merging (or "reconciliation") which rsync alone doesn't quite provide.
It's only when they get screwed by the vendor that they realize that having a non-commercial, non-enshittified alternative is crucial to counterbalance tech company malfeasance.
I do rsync too (robocopy, to be exact), and I prepaid the server for 2 years, but still, dropbox plays an important role in ensuring longevity of my data.