Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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Syncthing; it’s a modern miracle

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Last time I tried it, it choked on anything over a million files. Is it better now?

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What is it?

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Similar in function to google drive or onedrive or other cloud sync services but everything is kept local, more performant, and non-intrusive. Each device keeps your chosen synced folders up to date with other devices. You choose what is synced with each device on a foldee-by-folder basis.

I use it to sync my password manager database (keepass) and my notes app, among other things. So all my devices have the password database up to date and i can use the same password manager accross them.

It also provides version control optionally. I use obsidian for notes so if i screw up i can revert to the prwvious revision as a complex ‘undo’ option.

Works on major platforms including android, Linux, windows, and i assume apple stuff.

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Awesome. I wonder if I can incorporate OneDrive easily. I’m on a family plan and have 1 TB of storage. Maybe there’s a way to upload stuff to OneDrive without the garbage of OneDrive.

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It synchronises files between machines. So you could sync your home folder for example or just backup games that don’t support cloud saves

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It syncs things.

No but really, it’s Pretty freaking cool A tool you can use to automatically sync data across multiple OS with minimal interaction from you.

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Oh, is it like a Dropbox but without a cloud?

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When I learned about it first time I thought it sounded too good to be true. Turns out, it is just that good.

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Well, I guess we’re a little past the year mark but I really like Lemmy and Jerboa lol.

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This isn’t exactly “can’t live without,” that would be HomeAssistant. But what I Immediately thought of?

Beyond All Reason

This is an RTS game in the spirit of Total Annihilation.

  • labor of love
  • fully 3d, including ability to rotate or raise/lower view
  • tens of thousands of units without hardware lag for reasonably modem hardware (3-4 years old)
  • all shots actively rendered, leading to:
  • realistic friendly fire
  • even air units can get hit by ballistic shots targeting land units (although odds are fairly slim)
  • redirect-unit-to-dodge micro is effective in some situations
  • meaningful terrain
  • radar will have blind spots based on line-of-sight
  • radar gives clear indicator of coverage during placement
  • two factions, almost 200 units each, with tier 1, 2, and 3 units. A third (currently playable with a setting change) faction is in the works.
  • crafty, non-cheating ai opponents
  • free server hosting (!)
  • active servers all times of day

The overall feel and balance of the game is great. The changes they make to balance are generally light and reasonable, and the game had a good community.

Fam and friends play together often.

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Well we can’t live without a modern game that acknowledges how awesome Total Annihilation is as an idea so effectively that means we can’t live without Beyond All Reason/The Spring Engine right?

I mean Forged Alliance Forever is amazing and I am zero percent bashing it… and ok I guess we would still have Planetary Annihilation, and that game looks pretty awesome too…so I suppose technically we could live without Beyond All Reason but I doubt even the Planetary Annihilation devs would be happy about that world, I know the FAF community wouldnt be happy lol.

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Loved TA as a kid. Played it for countless hours on GameSpy and EA Zone. Will definitely give this a try, thank you!

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Sweet! For others coming by, here’s the official trailer:

(Fixed): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_fSWfOC1w

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That link doesn’t seem to work for me 🙁

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Proxmox, if that counts, life changing.

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Same. I went from one overly complicated Debian install to two dozen neat and self contained VMs that do one thing each. I even tricked a Windows VM into not knowing that it’s a VM, so I can game with anticheat games.

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Got any recommended sources for someone looking to do the same thing? My home server is approaching 18 years old, was looking to set up something neat and tidy to replace it when it eventually fails. Tricking a windows vm sounds pretty useful too!

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I don’t have a good primary source, its been a lot of disparate googling. But if you have any questions at all, let me know. I love helping

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I’ll go with FreeCAD. I’ve known about it for a while and tried it about 5-10 years ago but have given it another look as I try to get back into CAD stuff and hate the restrictive licenses of commercial products. It has come a LONG way and is far more intuitive to use than it used to be.

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Have you heard? The release candidate of 1.0 dropped just a few days ago. It looks very interesting.

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!!!

I had missed that. Thank you!

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That is great to hear, definitely seemed like FreeCAD was REALLY basic in the past, but there is such a big gap for a really fully featured FOSS Cad software!

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