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- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 6 days ago:
It didn’t work like that for me. I must admit I didn’t dig deep to clearly see what is the problem. So my setup had a Windows Pc, a Raspberry Pi 5, and an Android phone, sharing a folder which had notes.
Whenever I save any changes in Windows machine, the android used gets updated without much issue, but the Raspberry Pi caused conflicts. When looked at the time stamps they were different and it looked to me like the Raspberry Pi 5 Syncthing is sending the old file as new one, because of the save time.
It read somewhere the issue is with how time is handled in Rasberry Pi. So I disabled the Raspberry Pi Syncthing and went on, because that was not really needed.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 week ago:
Aah my bad… I was half asleep. What I meant was use Round Sync / Syncthing to copy files to pc and then use Kopia to backup. Round Sync can do one direction copying, so source files are not corrupted.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 1 week ago:
First and foremost Syncthing is not a ‘backup’ utility. Using it for backup is not at all recommended. Especially if you are dealing with Android or Raspberry pi, because the way clock / time works in these systems are pretty weird and create sync conflicts. So don’t.
Now to the solution. For backup, use a proper backup solution like Kopia. Modern solutions support browsing the snapshots created as backups. Also creating periodic snapshots ensures better redundancy and better chance for disaster recovery.
Now if you will not use it for backup, take a look at ‘Round Sync’ available in F-Droid. It’s an application built around the execptionally good app, ‘rclone’. It is similar to Syncthing, but designed in a very different way. Also it is more difficult to configure to copy the files to PC.
I also wanted to mention that I have used Syncthing for many heavy lifting jobs and never faced issues with it. It is a feature complete app, with the philosophy of doing only one thing and doing it perfectly. So if you run into any issues, do reach out to forums or devs. They will definitely help you.
- Comment on Unmatched power 2 weeks ago:
This pers9n experiments on humans… /s
- Comment on YSK that Today is the deadline for the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapies and we are close to reaching the minimum number of signatures! 2 weeks ago:
YES!
- Comment on YSK that Today is the deadline for the European Citizens' Initiative to ban conversion therapies and we are close to reaching the minimum number of signatures! 2 weeks ago:
The organisation behind the initiative is from France.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Try
docker run liquidtrees:micro-algae - Comment on How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world 4 weeks ago:
I think the report needs more data. It’s mostly comments from people working on this field.
One part of the article says there is widespread adoption, and another part says only rich people are able to afford it. Which is kind of contradictory IMO.
South Asian countries are generally seeing more adoption of Solar power, largely driven by China and other producers of the region. So the article also needs more comparison with other SE Asian countries.
- Comment on ChartDB (v1.7.0) - open-source database diagram visualization tool 3 months ago:
Hey thanks for the detailed explanations.
Regarding SSO my concern is not the ChartDB team having my email, that I was planning to give anyway, but SSO provider knowing I’m using this tool. It’s a personal paranoia than anything else. I know it’s much safer and easier to have 3rd party SSO than managing your own authentication service. Done that, hated it. So not really that annoyed about it.
The Mac only part really annoyed me to the core. Then I received an email telling about Buckle, which amplified it. I think the problem is you advertise it as ‘ChartDB 2.0’ and then suddenly it becomes ‘Buckle’. I can understand the thought process behind such presentations, but really don’t like it. TBH I would not be this mad if a similar tactic was used by a large corporation. But being an open source tool I have some ethical issues with these practices.
Again, I know these are just some inconveniences, and not a scandal. So not really complaining, but just sharing how I felt. Apologies if that has been rude.
- Comment on ChartDB (v1.7.0) - open-source database diagram visualization tool 3 months ago:
Only one suggestion. Need to be more clear and less annoying about ChartDB v2.0.
So this is shown as some big rework, so I signed up. Only then it said only MacOS would support it initially. This was a huge disappointment and I felt kind of deceived into giving my email id I don’t remember seeing it’s only mac at the beginning on the sign up page. May be I missed.
Another thing is it looks like a different product altogether with the name ‘Buckle’. Again I didn’t see it in the sign up section. Why a new product name? Are you switching to freemium model?
Last but most importantly, why does a third party sign up for it? If you just want to inform the user when things are ready, just take the email and use it. No need to have access to my Google or GitHub account.
Apart from this terrible experience, I love the tool and how it visualises it.
I have a doubt. When I visualised my postgres db it also showed the views I had, apart from the tables. But I could not find an option to add a new view from the interface, so that I can use it as a more capable design tool. Is it a feature in the pipeline?
Also I could not find an option to set the length of Type: varchar. I remember seeing this feature in other design tools.
