google-drive-ocamlfuse VS Killed by Google

I fixed the problem, it was due to the incorrect setup of the google drive. I followed this guide to set everything up from scratch and create the folder directly in Linux instead of constantly accessing the apparently "encrypted" cloud. If anyone ever runs into the same problem, I really hope this thread is helpful :D

You might be able to use something like https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

Its a little hacky, but google drive with mounted ocaml-fuse kinda does-ish this... though git/GitHub does the trick, too.

There are fuse drivers like https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse but I pretty darned sure it's using exactly the same transport protocol as Google's own app.

you might be able to load a drive with locally with google-drive-ocamlfuse but you wouldn't get access to google drives proprietary files (google doc, sheet, slide, etc)

There's always the excellent unofficial google-drive-ocamlfuse which uses FUSE to mount Google drive to a local directory.

https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

Agree with previous comment, dejadup is a good option for local backups, but there isnt a really good backup cloud tool in linux enviroment: https://github.com/vitalif/grive2, https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse, etc.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Their reputation is deserved. Google domains was killed only last year!

And this isn't even the first time I've been burned by Google's decisions. If you're familiar at all with the Google Graveyard, you'll know that Google has a long history of killing off products and services that people have come to rely on. This has happened to me a number of times, in both a personal and professional capacity, and frankly it's getting old.

Just because Google has a couple of decent services that you're willing to pay for doesn't detract from the fact that most of their products have a worse life expectancy than a victorian child in the 1800s. https://killedbygoogle.com

They ruined every single opportunity to be more than an advertising company since Orkut. With scrapped attempts, starts and lack of intention for most of the 2010s to even during the early half of the Pixel Era, they seemingly haven't learnt to stick to something and iterate on it well.

And the fact that over 50% of their revenues come from search and by extension, advertising.

The fact' that til this day, they still haven't evolved from the "throwing shit at the wall then at the fan" strat which explains how they have fumbled so much so quickly.

Yeah. The Google Graveyard really shows how far this can go.

https://killedbygoogle.com

The punchline is that in addition to hundreds of failed hobby projects, their stock is doing great. Monopoly power is a helluva drug.

To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct.

I've no idea about the quality of the product itself, I have never had a reason to use it. It's long past cliché now but I wouldn't get too attached to a Google product that is definitely costing a lot of money but which has no clear pathway to turning a profit. I think they will keep it ticking over until the hype train moves on from Chatbots/LLMs, and then it'll join the Google Graveyard @ https://killedbygoogle.com

We're not talking about reliability, we're talking about Google's penchant for killing established products that people use. https://killedbygoogle.com

The website you're referring to: https://killedbygoogle.com/