bird-screm-2 STOP TRYING TO INSTALL COPILOT

  • urmums401k [she/her, they/them]
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    9 days ago

    Linux is the only option.

    Not because FOSS is glorious and the most communist your computer can be without violating the DMCA. Though it is also that, and you can seed generously from a machine running Linux.

    Not because Linux is much better lately. It is BTW.

    Not because using a system that is designed intelligently and respects you as a fucking adult and might not always be easy to use, but won't generally fight you, so solving problems feels collaborative rather than like youre a persecuted victim about to have everything you just learned and built crushed with the next patch feels really good and generally is an improving cool experience. Though, I mean, that should be enough on its own, right?

    But because capitalism is in late stage decline and everything it touches is going to turn to shit and exploit you and surveil you and coerce you and infantipize the fuck out of you and you'll have to get on your knees and crush yourself in terrible ways to check your fucking email or you'll have to fight it tooth and nail every god damn inch fighting a different system each time you want to check your fucking email or see a naked picture of a hot person-even one they took for and sent to you directly.

    • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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      9 days ago

      Last time I tried Linux there was no native Google Drive application and none of the third party ones worked properly to sync my files. Has that changed at all?? Don't tell me to stop using Google Drive I'm locked in for work

      • Yamimakai [he/him, comrade/them]
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        9 days ago

        If you're interested in switching over and that's the only hang up, I can give a few solutions a try on my machine at home this weekend and let you know if there are options for you that might not have come up through forum posts.

        I know a lot of times when something gets added and "just works" no one bothers to talk about it so you don't know until you poke around yourself!

        • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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          9 days ago

          That would be incredible. The main thing is that it needs to sync the files from cloud to desktop and vice versa like the first party application does. Most of the work arounds provide remote access to files from the desktop, but I actually need them physically synced on the drive.

          • Yamimakai [he/him, comrade/them]
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            4 days ago

            Yamimakai

            I ended up having a bit of time (and remembering blob-no-thoughts), I would second what u/ProletarianDictator said. Celeste (which can be found on FlatHub and is fully free) seems to do exactly what you're looking for, checking for updates to files in the cloud or on your machine constantly and pushing/pulling as needed.

            I will say that the method is... rough right now. Assuming you're working with a modern system you should be fine, but if you're on laptop you might not want it running 24/7. Rather than waiting for changes to occur and then sending the data around, it seems like it's constantly checking to make sure the local/remote files are staying in sync.

            It's all open source though and works very smoothly, so I'd definitely give it a try!

            Edit: I also want to note that I specifically checked that the files are really located on my machine - I can confirm they are present in both locations and after severing the link between directories, the files persisted in a usable state on both ends. The drive integration as part of GNOME does not do this and I confirmed that.

      • urmums401k [she/her, they/them]
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        9 days ago

        I have no clue; I don't touch that corpo garbage, but if there's not and yyou can't, and wine doesn't work:

        Run a windows (or android? Android seems lighter) VM, give it no permissions it doesn't need, sandbox the fuck out of it, then sync from there.

        Edit: quick search reveals likeliest solutions are tied into the ux... Thingies, forget what they're called. Like KDE and gnome. Try the one for yours; gnome and KDE generally have their shit together.

        • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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          9 days ago

          The constant tension between "Try Linux! It's so easy" and a reply like this thonk-cri

          I know this is mostly Google's fault, but I just can't switch if doing this is required to run a program I need to use daily

          • urmums401k [she/her, they/them]
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            9 days ago

            Youre married to a specific corpo shit thing that is shit and specifically does not support Linux, on purpose. Google is fighting you, they are making this hard. And your ux (probably gnome or KDE) is what looks like it has the solution here. Try that instead of acting like a libchild. Dual boot or whatever til you find a thing that works (windows updates gave been known to kill dual boots partitioned on same physical drive)

            And the reason to switch isn't because it's 'so easy'. I made a kind of linger post somewhere in this thread on it.

            • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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              9 days ago

              Like I said, I'm well aware this is mostly because Google refuses to make a Linux client. Also the UX solutions you mentioned are ones I've already looked at and they don't actually sync the files, which is what I need. The one program (Insync) that actually seems to do this is not FOSS and costs $40 per account

          • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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            9 days ago

            The constant tension between "Try Linux! It's so easy" and a reply like this

            Sorry, this made me have to hold back my laughter so much on the train that I repeatedly snorted. EVERY LINUX SOLUTION REPLY IS LIKE THIS.

      • Luna [she/her, love/loves]
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        9 days ago

        You could always run Google Drive online, or run it with a Brave (Chromium) Web App, which would run the web version in an application displayed on your desktop. I don't know if this is the kind of thing you're looking for, I'm just trying to think of solutions.

              • Luna [she/her, love/loves]
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                9 days ago

                I really hope you find a way to get it working one day, it's annoying to have everything working nicely except for that ONE THING.

            • blackbread@lemmygrad.ml
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              8 days ago

              I've been doing this with rclone. https://github.com/rclone/rclone

              I manually run it to sync my important files (which I modify on my Desktop) up to Google Drive (which serves as a web accessible backup).

      • arglebargle@lemm.ee
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        9 days ago

        I am confused. Google drive has been on my computer for years. I don't use it much, I don't like storing things there. But Dolphin just mounts it and treats it like another drive. Maybe I am missing something? Like when you use a certain application it doesn't see the google drive in the file dialog or something?

        Here is a screen cap of the gdrive with folders in it: https://i.imgur.com/DjOc9xx.png

          • arglebargle@lemm.ee
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            9 days ago

            The imgur link is down? That would be bizarre. Opens on my desktop and my phone....

            The files are on the google drive in the cloud. I believe there is a package to sync them with local files if I HAD to have them local. Or I suppose a rclone or syncthing script could run locally to do the same thing.

            Do you need to disconnect your laptop from the cloud and then sync them later? Is that what I am missing?

            • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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              9 days ago

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              It's that I need the files available locally across multiple devices, synced through the cloud. Ideally automatically, but I'd take a manual sync