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Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by libeclipse »

hparadiz wrote: post #146
j1elo wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a FOSS maintainer I always try to make it clear that before trying your luck with a PR, you should always first engange in a conversation with me. Seems kind of obvious to my eyes, asking, talking, discussing about some change before doing the actual work. But as it seems, "obviousness" is in the eye of the beholder...

That's fine and all except that the typical refrain from internet folks is that if something is free then you are not allowed to critique, comment, or request changes. If you really care about freedom you can handle a little bit of online banter.

No one is saying you're not allowed to critique the software. You're critiquing the people who create that software for free

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by bipson »

dolni wrote: post #186
mPReDiToR wrote: post #161

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"Entitled to ask"? I think freedom of speech allows for it. Can I have a million pounds, from you personally, please? Also, that might be the small nudge which potentially has a user actually contribute in some circumstances. I'm not sure your question is fair.

Perhaps "entitled to ask" is a poor choice of words. Yes, freedom of speech allows bipson to ask about contributing. It still comes across as entitled. The question was clearly laden with some expectation that Reventlov should go do work for syncthing instead of sharing an opinion on Hacker News. We're just here having a conversation. The expectation that a user MUST do something for an open source project because th…

Hmm, fair point.

But just as much as you consider an "expectation that a user MUST do something for an open source project" is a tired point, I consider the endless ranting by entitled FOSS users an obnoxious trend.

And btw. I never said something about "must", I asked why not choosing - OK, maybe strongly suggesting - another option.

Maybe you took my question the wrong way, but (maybe just as much misguided) I took the "opinion"/"discussion" not as opinion, but for the lack of any helpful suggestion as merely a rant.

I was raised not to needlessly complain about free things, without considering to take things into my own hands.

And even if you don't know how to code, suggestions and discussions are better had in an issue tracker, right? Otherwise, what's the point?

If one is not a user, and considers something else to be better, why voice such a strong opinion?

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by kitsunesoba »

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #112
oauea wrote: post #109

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It's Apple. You are of course welcome to pay their exorbitant development fees yourself, go through the insane review process and publish your own competing app!

You can't publish your own competing app. The desired behaviour requires running a background service (not allowed) that watches arbitrary folders (not allowed).

Third party iOS apps do in fact have access to background tasks. There’s even a variant dedicated to longer-running tasks, like lengthy file syncs.

The difference is that instead of having an ever-running daemon, the developer schedules tasks with the system, and system decides when to run them based on network availability, battery charge, etc as well as the app’s behavior (badly written/inefficient background tasks and frequent high intensity task requests are penalized).

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by alias_neo »

rjzzleep wrote: post #151
alias_neo wrote: post #140

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I tried Syncthing, then I tried Nextcloud, and for the goal of just syncing camera roll and backing up my password manager, they were both a bit of a hassle. Now I use Minio with FolderSync (Android App, I use the paid one, but the free is perfectly capable) to backup my camera roll and I wrote a very simply WebDAV server in Go to backup my (Android) password manager DB which only supports WebDAV, I sit NGINX in fron…

Keepass2Android/KeepassDX with Nextcloud? I don't understand how running Minio with a custom built webdav server is easier than Nextcloud has integrated WebDAV access.

I used to run Nextcloud. Nextcloud did a bunch of stuff I didn't need, is a larger attack vector and usually took an entire afternoon/evening every time I needed to do an upgrade. So far I spent less time setting all this up, and writing a WebDAV server than any one upgrade of Nextcloud took me.

Minio is zero-maintenance, if it needs an upgrade I just pull a newer Docker image. My WebDAV server is fewer than 100 lines of Go and extremely easy to maintain.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

marcellus23 wrote: post #180
vagrantJin wrote: post #179

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> you can buy a different phone if it's that big of an issue. - I can't change my car's satnav. You can buy another car if it's that big a deal. I think we can agree, the above statement reads silly. Sometimes, no matter the deal size - buying a new thing isn't always a reasonable option.

There are cars where you can change the built-in sat nav?

Nearly all of them. Changing the media center is a well sypported third party customisation for most vehicles.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by cynod »

stiltzkin wrote: post #175
KennyBlanken wrote: post #5

Syncthing works brilliantly! The web UI is excellent, warns you when you're about to do something ill-advised, and stuff like QR codes makes adding clients and folders fairly easy. The separation between folders and devices is handled well. You can easily have half a dozen shared folders between several computers with any mix-and-match combination including which one is 'authoritative' and so on. I used to use it on…

To add there is also Syncthing for Android TV, makes so much easier transfering files between devices, like to a seedbox.

Oh really? Didn't know that.. very handy!

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by chrisdhal »

alias_neo wrote: post #195
rjzzleep wrote: post #151

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Keepass2Android/KeepassDX with Nextcloud? I don't understand how running Minio with a custom built webdav server is easier than Nextcloud has integrated WebDAV access.

I used to run Nextcloud. Nextcloud did a bunch of stuff I didn't need, is a larger attack vector and usually took an entire afternoon/evening every time I needed to do an upgrade. So far I spent less time setting all this up, and writing a WebDAV server than any one upgrade of Nextcloud took me. Minio is zero-maintenance, if it needs an upgrade I just pull a newer Docker image. My WebDAV server is fewer than 100 line…

I run Nextcloud in a docker image (on unRaid). Upgrades are a docker pull away too, never had any issues.

I use Nextcloud on my phone (Android) to backup my camera too, the automatic sync is wonderful and works well. It does stuff I don't need too, but it's pretty easy to use and setup and it integrates well with the OS (Windows and Mac at least).

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by withinboredom »

marcellus23 wrote: post #133
oauea wrote: post #109

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It's Apple. You are of course welcome to pay their exorbitant development fees yourself, go through the insane review process and publish your own competing app!

$99/year is hardly exorbitant.

Plus ~30% of your revenue.

Re: Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

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Post by withinboredom »

alexktz wrote: post #148
miki123211 wrote: post #136

I have to pitch Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) here. It's a proprietary, more polished alternative that offers a freeware license for personal use. My biggest issue with Syncthing was that there was no auto-discovery, if you had 25 or so computers across a group of friends, you needed to set up 25^2 connections, which wasn't really feasible. Not sure if this is still a thing, but Resilio solves this perfectl…

+1 for Resilio Sync. Purchased a license 7 years ago and it still works today - how refreshing is that? Lots of people love Syncthing and that is great for them, but I've always found btsync to be easier to use.

You know btsync is just reskinned IPFS.
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