• @applejacks
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    262 years ago

    But over time, we found a growing number of customers were buying Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases, or even instances of reselling storage.

    Yea, not surprising tbh.

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    I haven’t used Dropbox in years. Honestly, I’m a little surprised that they’re still around. There are so many better alternatives.

    • @applejacks
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      92 years ago

      I still have to use it as it’s the only cloud service that can work as a Calibre server.

      Definitely annoying as it is really behind the times with features.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        I also dropped Calibre recently due to it just not fulfilling its promise.

        When Dropbox suddenly crippled my account several years ago, I moved everything to a much better Nextcloud instance and haven’t looked back.

            • @applejacks
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              22 years ago

              PDF is so much worse on eReaders…

                • @applejacks
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                  12 years ago

                  The issue is that text cannot reflow, so if a given page has a large amount of text on it, you’re going to have to manually zoom into and scroll back and forth.

        • @madcaesar
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          22 years ago

          What did you go to from calibre?

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Why were you unhappy with calibre? I don’t use the server part of it and only start it when I want to copy books to my e-reader.

      • @applejacks
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        32 years ago

        You can find tons of posts up people bragging about using up many petabytes of data.

          • @applejacks
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            42 years ago

            found the guy that sits around at the buffet the entire day stuffing his face with food.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              No, but I won’t stop myself after already getting two plates just because I’m scared the employees won’t like it, nor will I go right after I just had a meal

        • Oliver Lowe
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          12 years ago

          Ha yes just had a look. Seems like a funny thing to brag about when they’re not the ones administering the storage system!

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases

    So you have to be a business to use their business services? I dunno hey, if I pay for a service, I don’t see why me not being a business should be relevant.

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      12 years ago

      No, I think they mean “friends” sharing accounts.

      In the grand scheme of things, do I think this is an issue? No. But it’s their service to decide what amount of sharing is appropriate. As long as there is no ceiling to the storage limit, people will abuse it. That’s all I get out of this - they’re tired of people abusing the generosity.