Computers as I used to love them

Love this. As someone primarily from a web background I've been getting into binaries and low-end dev with minimal dependencies lately (basically a foreign concept a front-end native like me). It's really nice having something that won't disappear or change and you feel like you own.

Re: Computers as I used to love them

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Post by causi » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 11:38 AM UTC

Does Syncthing allow you to sync two differently-named folders as one folder while preserving the respective names? For example, your pictures folder may not be called the same thing on your phone and computer, or across Windows and Linux, or you want to sync game save files between Android and Windows.

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Post by rbanffy » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 11:40 AM UTC

From the title I imagined the time I used an Apple II... Part of the nostalgia is, of course, because I was much younger.

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 11:40 AM UTC

I disagree about the Dropbox folder criticism. It's actually simplifies things a lot: whatever you put there is synced. Very straightforward. You won't break anything.

Syncthing, on the other hand, is far too geeky and easy to ruin things if you somehow sync a rapidly updated folder. I've moved a few people to Syncthing and in the end they all were not very happy with it for one reason or another. It also isn't as clear on the sync state of a file.

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Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 11:42 AM UTC

OneDrive is pretty good and underrated IMO

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Post by jwr » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 11:45 AM UTC

I've been using Syncthing for about a year now, with multiple computers, and it's fantastic.

Dropbox has become a real pain over the years (I've also been a paid Dropbox customer for a long time):

* adding bloat and features that I don't want or need

* constantly nagging me for upgrades

* lying that the admin password is required (it isn't)

* consuming large amounts of CPU when anything changes anywhere in the filesystem

If Dropbox had a subscription plan where I could pay to get just the basic file sync functionality, with no nagging, no prompting, and optimized CPU usage, I would be happy to hand over my money. But it seems the company is run by the marketing team now.

I highly recommend syncthing as a very, very capable replacement.

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Post by gigatexal » Fri, Jan 07, 2022, 11:47 AM UTC

I agree that this is amazing -- the only thing is I trust and embrace lock-in with icloud because I can't be bothered to be a storage systems admin.

Could it be configured to sync to blob storage on s3 since ingest is free?