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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Too bad for Apple users though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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