Everyday Tech · Oct 8, 2026
I replaced Google Drive with Syncthing and realized I never needed the cloud
Syncthing effortlessly synced edits between machines while I kept full control of where files lived and who could access them.
I’ve been using Google Drive for over a decade, and it’s become ingrained in almost everything I do online. I love that all my files sync across devices, but I never stopped to question whether they needed to be in the cloud, or what would happen if, for some reason, I couldn’t access Drive anymore.