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I make it a point to Dropbox critical files(non-media) & do monthly backups of my phone & Mac to 2 physical drives. I'd love for something which does this daily of specific folders on my phone & Mac & makes sure there are no duplicates etc. And then on a monthly basis archive them to 2 or more different cloud storage vendors.

This is another timely reminder for everybody to get a simple domain(e.g. Namecheap, now with free whois-privacy as well) & maybe use Zoho mail to manage it for free(IIRC upto 2 in the free-tier). Then forward it to your gmail or whatever. That way you never lose the email address even if something untowardly happens to the forwarded email. I've learnt this the hard way.

It's just another outlet like newspapers or books. It's not like everyone on the coach bursts into laughter/jokes/small-talk or chops veggies on the way home.

Although it would suck if they did the same thing at home.

Kind of a r/ShowerThoughts, we should maybe make an app & voluntarily fill our Contacts app with specific human like crap values & then sync all major apps with it thus peppering their gold-pots with waste contacts & by the time they catch up, the damage is already done. Rinse & repeat with slightly different values.

For the love of god just get into any product shop, take eLitmus or AMCAT & leave BigIT. There's every less to learn, high restrictions on taking up choice assignments & so many more reasons. You can read up so many answers from Quora.

I open dropbox manually on my Mac & quit it manually after a file has been synced. I don't see how can they survive any longer except for institutional customers who should be extra careful about surveillance.

They can & already do p2p files & audio/video/data using WebRTC(even Apple got onboard yesterday).

The problem dropbox tries to solve is allowing access to files when either party is not connected to the internet or to grant publicly share a set of files.