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i checked mine and yep. check yours.
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
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Thanks for this advice: I found it on the Web settings interface (in two places, confusingly: I turned both off).
@davidgerard thank you very much! I hardly use google drive anymore, but now i've turned all my defaults off and will tell everyone.
@davidgerard @lisamelton 😂 love the church reference
@davidgerard
Or, you see, simply set up an echo network of focused parabolic repeater radios spaced at precise Schumann resonant intervals across your county to imprison your data in a geodesic reflection mesh, retrievable at any one of the convenient antinodes in the geometric median between repeaters by holding a vial of plasmodic aether draped in a fine copper foil to the heavens and allowing it to re-enter the spirit. Using google instead of a harmonic ether grid is just begging to be #enshittified
@jonny @davidgerard This...may be the most perfect example of fedi humour ever.
It needs framing and placing in a Hall of Fame.
WikiHow article: How to Imprison your Data in an Ionospheric Purgatory
subtitle: A hundred thousand youTubes eternally damned to the sky
In categories: Personality Traits, Physical Features, Final Thoughts, Video
Header of the XKCD guy's "what if" series
The Atmospheric Hard Drive
How much data can be stored in the harmonic ether grid?
And NOW I'd like to read the full explanation for these questions … ;-)
@jonny @davidgerard wait is this a joke about Disco Elysium
And given some of have renounced the devil and all his works and don't have a google account never mind a drive, your credentials don't pass muster very well
@artnacrea ah, a driveby evangelistic twat https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115448310202501810
@davidgerard
Hello, do you have the time to talk about our lord and saviou… wha… what do you need that hammer for?…
@dzwiedziu that's *my* lord and saviour, hth! now hold still a moment
@davidgerard I appreciate that edit, LOL. I've been told to switch to Linux and to switch to emacs in the past week and it's like.... GUYS I ALREADY DO IT'S IN MY PROFILE WHY YOU BUGGING ME??
Some of us still gotta use a Windows computer for work 😭
@Moosader BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED AN OLD THINKPAD RUNNING GENTOO--
[giant meteor obliterates speaker and their entire city, speaker just keeps on fuckin talking]
@davidgerard JFC I TURNED THAT GEMINI SHIT OFF ALREADY EVERYWHERE AND IT WAS STILL TURNED ON. GODDAMNIT!
I've got to get my shit off of Google Drive. The migration has been slow and painful but I gotta get it done...
@davidgerard Thanks for that. My (work) gdrive had it enabled.
@davidgerard Could only find that setting in the desktop web version in my case. Tried the mobile web version and the android app, no dice.
Horse, barn. The data was likely already fed to the model.
The data must be encrypted by *you* before storing in a cloud.
@SpaceLifeForm you've just combined unrequested evangelism with failure to understand the words of the original post and what its point was
Maybe I did not see the original post.
I am confused then. I do not use Gdrive.
Or... do what I do... don;t allow it to be installed on your PC/Laptop and disable it within android.
@Anomnomnomaly
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
@davidgerard
Pfft!
Joke's on you - I haven't updated my Google Drive app since before Gemini existed!
I don't have any of these problems!
(please don't make me actually write /s)
@davidgerard Or, even better and faster: stop using Google for anything you care about.
@davidgerard wont belive how fast is the webapp now
@davidgerard Folks, you can't fix stupid. Take your data to a local solution under your personal control, and shove all that Google cloud crap where the sun don't shine.
Every action remaining within the Google universe will be futile. Don't be evil!
@dazzr@social.tchncs.de Please describe for us how to do this reliably and without putting one's livelihood at risk if one works for a corporation that requires use of Google cloud products. If your description includes finding a different job, please detail a reliable method by which the user can find a workplace that does not use big tech cloud products and secure employment with them at equal or greater compensation. @davidgerard@circumstances.run
@abucci @dazzr @davidgerard
Don't be thick about this; your work's data is not *your* data. Take *your* data off Google.
I've also had to use Google shit for work, and my solution is/was to use a different browser than my personal goto exclusively for accessing Google. A little hassle, occasionally, but keeps work nicely separated from life, and keeps Google's surveillance nicely contained (as far as that's possible at a personal level.)
@dazzr @davidgerard sure, but I can't fix everything instantly. There's only so much spare energy and time in a day.
@dazzr
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
@davidgerard Thanks for the warning. Never used it, and now I'm super extra convinced never to ever try it either.
@davidgerard I'll check this out.
@davidgerard Another fix is to stop using google altogether,
@AvonVilla
EDIT: hi FOSS evangelists, we're already on fucking Mastodon. This is like walking up to someone in church who's wearing a white collar and asking if they've heard of Jesus.
@davidgerard I don't understand.
Thanks David.
Great help.
Or uninstall the os. If you can.
@kevinrns Microsoft Abacus with Copilot
@davidgerard thanks for sharing! My drive had a mini-stroke after turning it off 🔄 It really did not want me to turn it off 🧨
@davidgerard insidious shit (and yes it was on by default on mine as well)
You cannot imagine how much I'm never ever going to to this, Google
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