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tabtitle: Bye Bye Dropbox
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<h1>Dropbox or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Use Web Apps</h1>
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<p>Like a good nerd, the day I heard about Dropbox I installed it. I made
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use of it's free storage, it's painless sync'ing. Funny pictures, apps,
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books, music: it all went in, it all got sync'd. This was extremely
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helpful when I started working. Install Dropbox on work machine, wait
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for it to sync, and there are all my NES/SNES games and emulators waiting
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for some quality procrastination to sink in. Or that picture I really
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wanted to use as my background. Or that music I wanted to listen to. All
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sync'd, all in one place. Organized, efficient, localized; Dropbox.</p>
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<p>Then a change of mind: why do I keep all this stuff that I find online
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on my local machine? I'm basically just duplicating files which already
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exist in locations online, offline for ease of access. There are websites
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which already tackle this problem. Thus, my quest began, to migrate from
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Dropbox to existing services, and remove another program from my machine.
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</p>
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<h2>Rationale</h2>
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<p>A quick aside: I'm a pretty silly guy. Not in the comedic sense, though
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I have been known to bring the funny. No, more in a principles way; I have
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silly concepts of things. Philosophical quandries and quagmires aside,
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some of these silly ideas pertain to my computer and related maintenance.
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See, I like having control of my environment. That's tough in life, but
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easy on a computer. It's part of the reason I love Linux so much.
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<h2>From One to Many</h2>
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<p>There are many places that the previously all centralized content of my
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Dropbox is heading.
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<ul>
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<li>Pictures are heading to imgur, for ease of storage and ease of
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access to both download and share.</li>
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<li>Music is heading to Google Play, or Amazon. Either one will work,
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but not quite decided yet. </li>
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<li>Books to Amazon Kindle or Google Books depending on format.</li>
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<li>Most documents will go to Google Drive.</li>
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<li>Most applications won't go anywhere, they'll also be replaced.
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</li>
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</ul></p>
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<h2>From Apps to Applications</h2>
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<p>Most of the apps in Dropbox were Windows-specific. Putty, for example,
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I kept around in case I needed to ssh from Windows. However, with Windows
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being phased out of my day-to-day, I won't need that anymore. Others are a
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bit more difficult to replace.</p>
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<h3>Keypass</h3>
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<p>Keypass was my password store of choice, and for the longest time I
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kept it sync'd between my machines via Dropbox. However, due to a few
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concerns, I've decided to use a different approach.
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