This is how we use copy.com (where our installed machines have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on them) now:
Sync and share between our scanner VM, the various machines of my wife and me (using the different accounts for each user) and including off-site/in-cloud storage.
This holds for about 20 gigabytes of data and grows about 1.5-2 gigabytes per year.
Sync project documents between various business contacts and myself (the documents that aren’t part of versioning systems yet).
Not much data yet (100s of megabytes as most people tend to use DropBox for this even though Copy.com has the option of setting permissions)
Sync and share my BIN directory tree with tools where my own user has read/write permissions and other users have read-only permissions.
This holds for about 2 gigabytes of data.
Sync and share my installer directory (ISOs, MSIs, DMGs, etc) between my main Mac and Windows machines and various other ones.
This holds for about 40 gigabytes of data and grows faster than any of the others.
Dropbox doesn’t cut it for various reasons:
It sucks at long filenames (especially on Windows).
It won’t properly handle various encodings (like between Windows and Mac).
Often it hangs on local-sync (although copy.com also does that, but less often).
Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.
Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):
[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!
For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.
A while ago, YouTube started to automatically play the Next video after your current one was finished. I didn’t notice the Autoplay setting to be persistent after browser sessions as between tabs it isn’t synchronised and I hardly restart my browser (as I usually have like a hundred research tabs open).
To disable the feature, click the blue Autoplay slider switch that sits at the top of the right-hand column of Up Next videos. It’s that easy, and when I turned it off, YouTube remembered I did so after both browser and system restarts.
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