Uggh, feel bad for them.
I’ve tried for years to get friends and family to have their data sit in a single point in the house and use backup services. That would be a massive improvement.
Family won’t listen, so I’m building minicomputers for them all that will handle it. Just have to configure their devices to store data there.
I don’t do upgrades (well, not in the sense most people think of them).
My approach is that upgrades are too risky, things always break. It’s also why I don’t permit auto updates on anything. I’d rather do manual updates than dedicated time. Keeping things working is more important, and I have backups.
I run everything virtualized (as much as I can), so I can test upgrades by cloning a system and upgrading the clone. If that fails, I simply build a new system based on some templates I keep. Run in parallel, copy config and data as best I can, then migrate. Just migrated my Jellyfin setup this way.
This is a common methodology in enterprise, which virtualization makes a lot easier for us self hosters.
I haven’t had a disruption from updates/upgrades in 5 years.
I want buttons on my phone too.
They didn’t make Publisher, it had been around for a few years before they acquired it.
At the time (early 90’s), DTP was growing, fast. Publisher was stupid cheap compared to Aldus and Quark and could do all the day-to-day stuff for a fraction of the cost (and faster).
I was using all 3 at the time, and my go-to was Publisher as it was easier, and way faster on the hardware then.
I’d use PageMaker for multi-page, ongoing docs, but a single page? Publisher.
MS acquired Pub around 1995. (They’d deny it, like they do with OneNote, but I was using Pub before they owned it).
Sync it to a cloud
I wouldn’t trust the disconnected drives. They fail more often when offline than on, in my experience.
Granted it’s your 3rd backup, so it’s a smaller risk.
Syncthing or Resilio Sync for photo/file backup from phone. Both work amazingly well.
The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn’t unusual.
Source: Former technical trainer - I’ve read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that’s all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.
Seems there are 2 kinds - video links with almost no text, just farming visits, and video links with a wall of text.
Both suck. Videos, in general, suck.
So much of what goes on here needs text, lots of it. Video is slow and cumbersome.
Define share?
Keep all files in sync between two points?
Enable ad-hoc access to all files, or a subset?
Because it doesn’t make a difference.
So a woman murdered by a man is somehow more murdered than one murdered by another woman, a sister, a lover?
This is an arbitrary distinction. Someone was murdered, why they were murdered doesn’t change the fact they were murdered, and frankly if you’re going to say it will change sentencing, it shouldn’t.
Murder is murder, the end.
And what does this do for them? They’re still murdered, just like a woman murdered by another woman.
Doing it safely is pretty simple.
Install Tailscale at both ends. Done.
It’s a fully encrypted mesh VPN.
If you need access without the TS client on the other end, that takes a little more work. Then you need to enable the Funnel option.
Thanks for the update
I’ve used Fork for so long I forget it’s a separate app
Thing is, even using this new app it’s still ST underneath, using their Discovery servers. That’s as big an issue as anything.
To your point, the developer of an iOS Syncthing client (Möbius) has financially support ST development for at least 3 years that I know of. I don’t know how much, but they use it for their own clients, so it’s important to them.
My only concern would be the Discovery servers.
I have no intent to upgrade from my current version (1.27.9) as it’s been fine for years now.
It works, does what I need. There was an update a few months ago, but it offers nothing I need, and would only cause me a ton of work and re-testing to ensure it works as it currently does.
Apps don’t need continuous updating if they work.
Or they just don’t care so long as it gets them the convenience they want - because they don’t understand what it means.
I have an ancient Drobo.
Believe it or not, it’s only sound is the fan, which I can’t hear even when it’s on.
SSD will still generate heat, so will need a fan.
Bold move, Cotton!
(Not really, Lineage updates are the most seamless I’ve ever seen).