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Syncthing, for me. Keep it running on a VPS, and you've obliterated the need for personal cloud services
Huh. Can you explain that one for me? I like the idea but how does it get rid of the need of cloud services? I take it you mean running a VPS yourself?
Sure! I've had a cheap VPS on digitalocean for a few years, mainly just to host a few web pages for friends / family. Just found their guide to getting synching running you can pretty much follow for any server you're running.
So tldr; I get a
syncdirectory that's always going to be the same on a Linux laptop, a Mac desktop, an Android phone, etc. It's amazingly useful- and yes, I'm aware of the irony that DO is technically a cloud service (you could always take this to the next level and run a physical server on your own)