Just a massive thank you to the team

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There are a few pieces of software that truly feel miraculous. That are, truly, a gift to humanity.

Syncthing is one of them.

I’ve just configured it on my friend’s Mac and QNAP, so that I can create an on-site backup to a Synology![1]

And now I’m sitting 700kms away and thanks to another miracle of modern software – Tailscale – I’ve got these consoles up in a web browser and I’m watching data get moved around.

I use Syncthing myself for a whole bunch of other stuff. It truly is a joy.

I have a little business and one of the things we want to do as soon as we can afford it is give 1% not to plant trees or whatever, but to our favourite indie/FOSS softwares. Syncthing is at the very top of the list.

Thank you.

  1. I didn’t bother installing it on the Synology. It’s an older unit so will be under-powered, and the Docker image looked too hard. The Mac just maps the Synology as a drive and has it as a Syncthing target. ↩︎

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