The android development always just seemed... off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork. So I switched my family to use termux and termux:boot to run syncthing instead, it works fine.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Does running termux all of the time affect battery much?

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not as much as the syncthing apps.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've had no such issues with the syncthing-fork.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At that point why not use rsync?

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no idea what you mean. I just had to set this up once on my parents' phones and now it works all the time, even when they change networks, no port forwarding or any interaction required on their part. Rsync is a cli that requires an existing network connection between two devices, both online, and doesn't watch files or create a file version history. It is an entirely different tool.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ahh, makes sense for your use case, then.

Rather than ST I used to use rsync+ssh, and just had a Docker SSH container running with users in the ENV.

I've switched to WG in all devices since then, though.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The android development always just seemed… off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork.

Could you elaborate at all?

[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, it's odd to me that the syncthing repo makes a point of not officially supporting android, and not making any promises about its continued maintenance. It's a large part of their user base, but it seems, for some reason, this developer that went dark never spent time to coordinate with or join the core team.