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I was finishing a university assignment with the deadline 90mins away.

I wanted to upload a video of the project to YouTube and add a link to it in the report. YouTube takes a long time to process the video, and then says it's unavailable.

I go to Vimeo: it's down.

I upload the video to Dropbox, and copy its link to the report.

But my report was a Google doc. And when I tried to export it as PDF (which I had not done yet) it couldn't do it. I never hated google more.

Eventually the video went through to YouTube, and I could export the PDF on the third try, but this really made me conscious of my dependance on Google.



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