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[Reelya]

yeah that's a bit off-topic, when today's announcement - that Dropbox hotlinking is going to break - affects millions of existing websites. So in other words if you're relying on Dropbox to link any files on a live website / avatars or similar, you need to make alternate arrangements.

[wierd]

Well, I guess that would be one kind of taker for my "By mail" server config service.

I can set up a minimal chroot with a chron job to check the apt server for updates and upgrades every 12hrs automatically- that also runs a copy of apache or nginx (or even lighttpd) that can handle light web hosting for avatars.  That should keep the the box up to date even when otherwise neglected.  Files can be transferred to it with SCP easily enough, and not open up the can of worms that running samba on it would.

[Aklyon]

Spoiler: offtopic email stuff (click to show/hide)

I did actually have to swap out xp for linux mint after my grandma's computer's copy just up and died on it and had no xp disk to reinstall with, but considering she only really uses it for email, it wasn't a massive deal to explain after I'd added all her old contacts she'd written down into thunderbird.
That might have been helped by the fact that the computer wasn't working, if it had been she'd still be using outlook on her 10yr old desktop.

[Bishop]

Dropbox and Google Drive will be your best options.
If you have a website you could use Filezilla and store things in a password protected directory.

Dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com
Google Drive - https://www.google.com/drive