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Not sure why this would be easier or better

FTP is not encrypted. Unless you use SFTP maybe. (I wrote an SFTP and FTP-over-SSH client in Visual Basic like 20 yesrs ago lol).

And even then, you miss out on all the optimizations with prolly trees and other goodness that rsync has.

No, sorry, that solution sucks. CVS? That’s super outdated.



It's a reference to the infamous dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Anyways, if you're at the grocery store and you need to see your shopping list, and you're happy with your current workflow of opening up Termux and typing `rsync -avrsomgwtfbbq me@server/shopping-list.txt` with your thumbs, then by all means keep doing that! For the rest of us, there's Syncthing.


Yeah but on the substance, none of your countrexamples make sense

SyncThing doesnt actually have an iOS client that syncs reliably. I tried some, when I was test driving it and Resilio Sync and others.

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-for-ios/16045

On your phone you’d probably just visit a website, and access your server via HTTP.




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