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Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by nickdichev »

spacedoutman wrote: post #9

This video is what got me into homelabbing, grabbed a n150 mini-pc and got jellyfin and the whole suite installed. Tailscale + copyparty allowing seamless transfer of files between my phone and pc was the biggest qol i never knew i needed.

I’f you’re using tailscale, what features does copy party give you that you can’t get with tailscale drop?

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

jesprenj wrote: post #33

too bad it doesn't use unix users and file permissions via pam and reinvents the wheel with their own accounts and permissions.

On the one hand: Yes, that would be a fairly elegant design.

On the other hand: That assumes that it's running on a unix (at a minimum, it supports Windows), requires that the user/admin of copyparty be the admin of the machine it's running on, and conflates things that can be different domains.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by philips »

I love the OPDS feature to serve ebooks to my families ereader devices. Many of the other OPDS servers are rather complex by comparison and as a bonus I can use it from a web browser for my devices that don’t speak OPDS.

https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#opds-fe...

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by tarsiel »

philips wrote: post #44

I love the OPDS feature to serve ebooks to my families ereader devices. Many of the other OPDS servers are rather complex by comparison and as a bonus I can use it from a web browser for my devices that don’t speak OPDS. https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#opds-fe...

I’m curious, what devices do you have that support OPDS feeds? In the market for an ereader myself.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by philips »

tarsiel wrote: post #45
philips wrote: post #44

I love the OPDS feature to serve ebooks to my families ereader devices. Many of the other OPDS servers are rather complex by comparison and as a bonus I can use it from a web browser for my devices that don’t speak OPDS. https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#opds-fe...

I’m curious, what devices do you have that support OPDS feeds? In the market for an ereader myself.

I put koreader on my families various devices. I have Inkpalm 5, Kindle 11th Gen, and an older Kindle. My favorite is the Inkpalm 5 but they stopped making it. :(

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by crtasm »

philips wrote: post #46
tarsiel wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m curious, what devices do you have that support OPDS feeds? In the market for an ereader myself.

I put koreader on my families various devices. I have Inkpalm 5, Kindle 11th Gen, and an older Kindle. My favorite is the Inkpalm 5 but they stopped making it. :(

I was not aware of OPDS, thanks

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/OPDS-support

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by philips »

crtasm wrote: post #47
philips wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I put koreader on my families various devices. I have Inkpalm 5, Kindle 11th Gen, and an older Kindle. My favorite is the Inkpalm 5 but they stopped making it. :(

I was not aware of OPDS, thanks https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/OPDS-support

I run tailscale on the devices to get back to my home server while out and about.

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by philips »

dmd wrote: post #38

Copyparty is an absolutely incredible tour-de-force and has an absolutely insane feature set. But if you want something rock solid that probably solves your actual problem, I'd recommend looking at rclone - specifically the 'rclone serve webdav' command.

Features of copy party I use regularly:

Search to find epubs for my phone

OPDS to downloads things to koreader

Download file as zip to quickly grab an album from my collection to load to a device

Rclone is great but not exactly the same

Re: Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]

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Post by idle_zealot »

tripflag wrote: post #20
wrxd wrote: post #11

The most amazing thing is that this was coded on the author’s phone, on the bus, with Termux, Tmux and Vim.

Ah, a small correction regarding this... What I /meant/ to say in the video was that a lot of the INITIAL code was written this way, so the statement is mostly true for v0.2.3. Since then I've primarily been using vscodium (and recently zed) on my linux laptop, but I still tend to do quick prototyping on the phone when i get a bugreport or a sudden idea. That part of the video was recorded at 3am as I just wanted to…

Any reason you prefer zed to codium? I've been using codium with vim bindings for a while and am not really keeping up with the new hotness.
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