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Masterpiece software.
Easily one of the most integral and convenient pieces of software in my use. I’ve got six machines syncing up in various degrees: desktop, laptop, Android, ereader, media server, and laser controller. It along with Tailscale are among first things I install. I’m hoping version 2.0 is as stable as 1 has been. The only trouble I’ve ever had out of was when I was syncing something in my local cloud directory.
SQLite continues to be the “Do Nothing. Win” of databases
It is beautiful. I haven’t even thought of using a database server for personal projects in years. SQLite all the way. It’s so simple and performant (for my use cases).
It’s wild how it has the fastest read performance of any other sql backend, even postgres.
I remember using SQLite like 12 years ago as a backend for Minecraft mods, and even more recently as a backend for HomeAssistant and switching away to something else for performance…and now switching back. Kudos to them for all the work that went into that! Worst to first!
I love SQLite but is this still true? I thought DuckDB was on its way to supplanting SQLite is this area.
Oh, have they started working on aviation grade test harnesses?
SQLite will rule our world for a long time, far after we are gone.
I thought Turso is the new cool kid on the block
Its sheer flexibility and public domain license are definitely big factors
As much as I would like to agree with you, permissive licenses are killing open source software as a whole since corporations absolutely abuse the software, provide very little value back to the code in return, and often DEMAND the authors patch their vulnerabilities.
Open source props up the world and the least that corporations could do is throw 0.0001% of their revenue their way. But they can’t even be bothered to do that.
SQLite is one of the very few open source projects with a reasonable plan for monetisation.
- Do you want to use one of the proprietary extensions? Fork up a few thousand. No biggie.
- Do you operate in a regulated industry (aviation) and need access to the 100% coverage test suite along with a paper trail? Fork up ”Call us”.
- Is your company insisting that you only use licensed or supported software? Well, you can apparently pay them for a licence to their public domain software.
Basically, squeeze regulated industries, hard.
I’m all for open source, but at some point developers should stop acting surprised when people use their work at the edges of the licence terms (Looking at you Mongo, Redis and Hashicorp). As for developers running projects on their free time, maybe start setting boundaries? The only reason companies aren’t paying is because they know they can get away withholding money, because some sucker will step up and do it for free, ”for the greater good”. Stop letting them get it for free.
Looks like RedHat is kinda going in this direction (pay to get a paper trail saying a CVE-number is patched), and basically always have been squeezing regulated industry. Say what you want about that strategy, it’s at least financially viable long term. (Again, looking at you Hashicorp, Redis, Mongo, Minio and friends)
Am I missing something? SQLite is great, but it isn’t really comparable to most other SQL databases, unless you’re talking about nosql alternatives?
Syncthing is great.
That reminds me, I should donate them some money. They’ve saved me untold amounts of money and headache from dealing with cloud services.
Ah there it is
https://syncthing.net/donations/Ah yes, that’s the link
For those using it on Android, a reminder that the older app is not maintained anymore and you might want to replace it with Catfriend1/syncthing-android.
But also - maybe wait for the app v2.0 to be released to upgrade the desktop client at the same time; I don’t know if using v2.0 on the desktop would work with the v1.x app.
Oh wow, they already have a 2.0 prerelease build. That was fast!
I’m in no rush. 1.x has been doing its job without demanding any of my attention since I set it up a year or so ago. Setup was a bit complex, but it was definitely worth learning.
Waiting till Material 3 update to use it
Can I move from the older app to the fork while keeping all my configuration?
I tried it, but it didn’t work for me, so I had to reintroduce the device and share the directories again. But you don’t have to transfer all the data again, it’ll just do a full scan and transfer the diff as usual.
Thanks for the info. I will try upgrading now. To save people a click, here are the instructions:
On Syncthing on the official app, go into the settings and create a backup. Confirm you can see that backup in your files. Now stop the official app entirely using the system app settings for Syncthing (force stop the app basically - we need to ensure it’s not running). Install Syncthing-Fork v1.29.7.1 Now start Syncthing-Fork. In the Syncthing-Fork settings, restore the backup you created earlier. Like magic, everything should be as it was in Syncthing official. Confirm everything looks good. Uninstall the official Syncthing app. Delete the syncthing configuration backup from backups/syncthing. Upgrade to the latest Syncthing-Fork version
I just tried. Old app exports a directory, new one wants a zip. Zipped the dir and offered to new one. New one complained that some expected file was missing. Gave up and set it up again with it’s new keys (phone only syncs one dir off my home server, not a big deal) and now it’s going great.
There are instructions on the repo on moving to the fork, you need to download a specific version to do it and then update.
I could export and import with minimal issues around half a year ago after it was discontinued.
Based on what @eager_eagle@lemmy.world said maybe try installing an older version, importing, then updating.Also tried with the oldest version of the fork on f-droid, it could not import the old app’s config.
The archive repo has the old versions, the main repo omly goes back a few weeks.
No Solaris or Illumos support? That’s gonna piss of like 12 people
You had me scared there for a moment, but the Syncthing people are dependable and support hasn’t been dropped, it’s just the prebuilt binaries that no longer will be provided.
Are you one of the 12???
There are dozen of us
Lol
Nice, I like Syncthing too.
- One of the biggest shifts is the move from the LevelDB database backend to SQLite
- The command-line interface … old single-dash long options removed, some options renamed, and others reorganized into subcommands.
Sounds like it’s fully compatible query devices running older version. Great.
Doens’t look like Syncthing-Fork is on 2.0 yet. They have an RC but if you use it, you might want to be careful upgrading before they release.
Is 2.0 backward compatible with 1.x?
Protocol-wise? I don’t know. But usually major version bumps indicate some kind of breaking change.
Can I ask about the change of not keeping record of deleted files after 6 months by default. Does that mean if I sync two directories constantly so that if syncthing sees one of them has a file deleted, it will delete the file on the other too, if I copy back that same file into the synced folder, after 6 months pass Syncthing would sync that file again? Or what else does this mean?
Currently I am just using this to have an easy transfer between two computers, I keep moving out files that have been transferred from both folders, so I would think this has no effect on how I use it?
I don’t think your use will be effected. I believe the only thing is your database will be less bloated with deleted items that have never been removed previously.
If you add a file back after it’s removed from the database, It should sync as usual.
(This is my interpretation of the change notes, i’m no experto, maybe a real experto can confirm this is true or not).
I relied on Syncthing for a few years until my laptop became so powerful that a desktop was no longer needed (I do pro-audio work in Logic with lots of plugins; but I’m also just a nerd power-user). This has me thinking about getting back into using it to sync a much smaller amount of data, such as my Bash profile and custom functions, as well as some custom binaries that I keep in ~/bin. But I’ll wait until a few releases into the 2.x cycle before I install while others help find the rough edges.
Hooray for development of awesome tools. Hats off to all the devs involved.
It’s really weird reading your comment because it reads as if I wrote it.
- I do pro audio work in Logic & Ableton
- Was syncing projects between my desktop, laptop and homelab for a few years
- No longer need to with my M3 Max macbook
- Am a nerd power user and sync my dotfiles between my machines (i’d recommend chez-moi instead of syncthing for that because there’s less risk of messing up a machine and conflicts)
What kind of audio stuff do you do?
Good Point to start fresh? Mine ist totally fucked. Dont even know how i should start over :(
(Some syncthin-fork update or android update fucked the folder paths and trying to fix it while also adding a new folder somehow created some loops/crashes/conflicts)
There doesn’t seem to be that many changes for the user, at least not for me. Hopefully the performance difference is noticeable.
Awesome
