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[-] Jank2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 7 months ago

It's insane how many services sell file synchronisation as a premium feature when syncthing can do it for free and no one seems to use it

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

I mean, true...but I don't think the average user is paying for the service rather than they're paying for not having to worry about setting up everything needed to get syncthing working.

I don't consider myself a luddite in any way, but within five seconds of reading syncthing's install instructions even I basically just said, "yeah...no." And I say that AS a nearly 12 year semi-advanced linux user. It's not that it's difficult. But difficult enough to not be worth it for the average person.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

but within five seconds of reading syncthing's install instructions even I basically just said, "yeah...no."

Install instructions: download tarball, unpack, run. Done.

Did I miss something?
Autostart at system startup can be done with the basic utilities of the OS.
Windows: scheduled tasks. Systemd/Linux: they have a basic service file that you just have to drop in the right folder, and run 2 commands (start, enable).
Piece of cake. Not telling this because I already know how these work, but because as I remember, these steps are documented.

[-] TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Eh, there's always something people with a lot of tech knowledge think are obvious to people without a lot of tech knowledge. Just look at the mess that Linux can be.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't consider myself to have a lot of tech knowledge. I'm not working in the field, and there's lots of things I want to do better than now.

If you don't yet know about what is systemd and how does it work, it's fine. The documentation of the unit files is a bit more complicated than warranted, like, it's structure is not that readable, but the syncthing documentation helps in what you need to do

[-] TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

I guarantee that if you're here, you're very likely to be extremely tech knowledgeable (compared to the large populace)

[-] viperex@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Too bad for Apple users though

[-] B0rax@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Why? It has an iOS and MacOS client, I have it running on 3 iOS devices and 2 Macs.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago
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