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.
Syncthing
That is a very cool project that I’d never heard of. Thanks for sharing!
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.
How does that differ from something like Nextcloud?
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.
Oh nice! I felt like website did a bad job at explaining what it is and how it works
I think the “normal” usage is having an always on computer as a server and link all other devices to that one for updates.
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 1 week ago
Donate if you regularly use Syncthing. Help close the causal loop.
thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 week ago
LibreOffice too for that matter. Kick 'em a few bucks if you can spare it.
www.libreoffice.org/donate/
SexDwarf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thanks for the reminder! Donated 5 euros (I’m unemployed so can’t spare more right now)
Lightor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You gotta give.
swab148@lemm.ee 1 week ago
You hit me in the cup