Syncthing
That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!
Syncthing has been so helpful in making me move away from cloud based options. And to think only reason I found out about it and gave it a shot was because I was trying to figure out how to easily sync my non Steam game save files between my Desktop and my Steam Deck. It’s been invaluable since then.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Welcome to the biggest rabbit hole of your life. Syncthing itself isn’t huge, but the capacity to divest from the big cloud providers is.
azalty@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
How does that differ from something like Nextcloud?
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Nextcloud is, as the name says, a dedicated server used as a cloud. Syncthing only syncronises fders between devices. You dont need a dedicated server for this that stores all the data.
azalty@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Oh nice! I felt like website did a bad job at explaining what it is and how it works
bufalo1973@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I think the “normal” usage is having an always on computer as a server and link all other devices to that one for updates.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
it doesn’t say if it uses one of their servers
It does not.
if the two devices should be up at the same time
You can’t sync 2 devices when they have no way to connect to each other, so no.
I would recommend getting a server. And by “server” I mean literally any computer with Syncthing installed and left on.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Donate if you regularly use Syncthing. Help close the causal loop.
thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LibreOffice too for that matter. Kick 'em a few bucks if you can spare it.
www.libreoffice.org/donate/
SexDwarf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thanks for the reminder! Donated 5 euros (I’m unemployed so can’t spare more right now)
Lightor@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You gotta give.
swab148@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You hit me in the cup