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I use rclone and the Round Sync Android client.
Supports a ton of back ends, self hosted, and commercial options. You can transparently encrypt with private keys you control.
I personally use B2 Backblaze for storage.
My phone backs up every night and Round Sync pushes them to B2. On my desktop I can mount as a volume. I can also access my storage from my phone going the other direction.
I’ve done the same using SFTP if I don’t want the overhead of persistent file storage.
It does not support indexing or previews for searching or finding say a photo. You can put whatever you want for data. So I have caches, indexes, and thumbnails that work in Linux. I can’t really make use of those on my phone though.
Rclones bisync feature is also a bit dangerous when I tried to use it a year ago. I more than once “deleted” everything. B2 doesn’t delete by default, just hides, so I was able to recover. I now do unidirectional syncs from my machines to different buckets until I’m motivated to investigate a proper 3-way merge solution.
Pre-COVID I used to find software dev meetups. I found this patent law firm that did Haskell meetups once a month with beer and pizza. I guess they wrote custom software to analyze patents as I was surprised this was coming out of a law firm. Learned a lot and job openings were discussed by various members from other companies.
I don’t know about Nvidia specifically, but I mostly only see RSUs offered to Staff/Principal level engineers or Director and above on the management track. Many times with a multi year vestment period to act as a retention tool. You can make out good at the exiting end of the deal.
IMHO its a shitty practice. There is risk if the C-level pulls some stupid shit tanking the stock. The reward could just as easily be distributed to employees with a profit sharing bonus that eliminates the risk of my options tanking while vesting. Let the employees convert to options if they want to stake on future company performance.
At least in the US, I could have used the value of my options earlier in life to help with student loans, buying a house, medical issues, having kids, etc. I grew up poor. I “pulled myself up from bootstraps” and am doing well now. I still think the whole system is a dumb gimmick.
I haven’t tested in Windows, but this is my setup Linux to Linux using rclone which the docs say works with Windows.
Server
Client
I use this setup for my local files and a similar setup to my Backblaze B2 off site backups.
The VFS implementation has been pretty good. You can also manually sync. Their bisync I don’t fully trust though.
I can access everything through android using https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync. Not great for photos though as thumbnails weren’t loading without pulling the whole file last I tested a year ago.
Hotline for the MacOS warez scene to get games in high school (circa 1999ish).
I accidentally pirate crap I have legitimate access to because I can’t be bothered to figure out which damn platform its on. I have access to quite a few through work due to my industry at no out of pocket costs.
The times I try to actually search for something, it’ll be listed on multiple platforms but 0 to 1 of those platforms will actually have what I’m looking for included with the subscription forcing me to manually check each one.
It is easier to just pirate.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- Goodhart’s law
Advertisers made it a target to have a high review score so now they are just another advertising cost.
SEO did the same to the web.
Bots and now AI are infecting social spaces as users figured out reviews are now shit and would turn to special interest groups.
Official API client used by proton: https://github.com/ProtonMail/go-proton-api
I didn’t see any good documentation. Its in use by (or has at least inspired) https://github.com/henrybear327/Proton-API-Bridge?tab=readme-ov-file
The API bridge backs rclone’s Proton Drive support.
If there isn’t a built-in option, it will probably be DE / WM specific. Something like this might work for x11. Wayland will require something different. Sway/i3/Hyprland/Gnome/KDE/etc may all have a native way depending on what you use also.
/usr/bin/firefox &
/usr/bin/wmctrl -r firefox -b add,hidden```
Doesn’t have to be plain text. I’m not using Standard Notes as my media storage solution or anything, but I keep a section for house repair stuff. I bundle repair photos, receipts, PDF manuals, etc into my notebook.
Doing a tare down of my leaking dishwasher? I document the shit out of that.
You can use rclone to mount: https://rclone.org/protondrive/
Its bi-sync is a little janky for replication. I use B2 Backblaze for my storage that hides instead of deletes by default. I’ve “hidden” everything before on accident.
I prefer to unidirectional sync, similar to git, but avoiding merges. My local files are in a crypt “remote” so I have to mount. I wrote a simple script to pull, mount, unmount, push to simplify things.
I use Nix, even on my Ubuntu machines, to install tooling in my user profile.
Nixpkgs unstable stays pretty up to date. The few I want something on release day or bleeding edge nightlies, I override the derivation source. I use nvfetcher to pull the latest release or head of the default branch as part of my update routine.
I’m pretty new to Nix, so its been slow integrating into my workflow, but I plan to start integrating flake’s into my repos. My team seems to have constant issues with keeping their tooling up to date which breaks things locally from time to time.
One method depends on your storage provider. Rsync may have incremental snapshots, but I haven’t looked because my storage provider has it.
Sometimes a separate tool like rsnapshot (but probably not rsnapshot itself as I dont think its hard links interact well with rsync) might be used to manage snapshots locally that are then rsynced.
On to storage providers or back ends. I use B2 Backblaze configured to never delete. When a file changes it uploads the new version and renames the old version with a timestamp and hides it. Rsync has tools to recover the old file versions or delete any history. Again, it only uploads the changed files so its not full snapshots.
Yes. You compose a crypted vault over your storage vault. I pay about $1/mo for B2 Backblaze. Around 150G last I checked.
Important stuff (about 150G) is synced to all my machines and a b2 Backblaze bucket.
I have a rented seed box for those low seeder torrents.
The stuff I can download again is only on a mirrored lvm pool with an lvmcache. I don’t have any redundancy for my monerod data which is on an nvme.
I’m moving towards an immutable OS with 30 days of snapshots. While not the main reason, it does push one to practicing better sync habits.
I believe you will see OOM errors in journalctl. Also considered a systemd service or something to restart the process?
Glad you figured it out though!
I use EteSync to sync my contacts. It can do calendars also and has a self-hosted option. Personally I just use Proton for my calendar at the moment.
I haven’t tested any desktop syncing with EteSync, but maybe it will work for you.
I use DavMail to proxy an Exchange account so I don’t have to install Outlook on my phone.
I use Mullvad and Proton. I have a grandfathered Proton Ultimate Visionary plan so I use theirs when I need the port forwarding. I had just started my privacy journey with Proton and didn’t sign up anonymously. Mullvad is my daily driver paid with XMR.
Immutable Nixos. My entire server deployment from partitioning to config is stored in git on all my machines.
Every time I boot all runtime changes are “wiped”, which is really just BTRFS subvolume swapping.
Persistence is possible, but I’m forced to deal with it otherwise it will get wiped on boot.
I use LVM for mirrored volumes for local redundancy.
My persisted volumes are backed up automatically to B2 Backblaze using rclone. I don’t backup everything. Stuff I can download again are skipped for example. I don’t have anything currently that requires putting a process in “maint mode” like a database getting corrupt if I backup while its being written to. When I did, I’d either script gracefully shutting down the process or use any export functionality if the process supported it.