best description I have ever read of syncthing. they should put this in their readme or about page. describes the pros & cons in an honest way. I've had all the problems you describe and will probably have them again in the future, be confounded, be frustrated.
I get (mostly) worry-free backups
except this; it's sync not back up. ;) but it is very backup-like and in some situations does the job as well or better than backups
I <3 syncthing nevertheless
does it support plain markdown?
IME joplin has its own format
most ide’s are extremely fun to use as text editors
my kind of fun
kindred spirits
feudalism + capitalism
worst of both worlds
haha good to know. :)
I was not able to complete the set up. :( I am not given up on it yet though.
could you like run a cron job to speed up the audiofiles after download? using maybe ffmpeg? might be a better way
I didn't know github.com had referral links now!
omg I literally had to check if I had written this. We are almost the same.
Main difference is that I have a working understanding about linux file structure and am comfortable with text files, but I have only on a couple of occasions even attempted anything with docker. it makes me tired to think about.
Other than that I so feel you on changing things, not knowing what actually fixed the problem. And then having to re-learn everything from scratch on another occasion. I also feel there is a limit to how much I want to learn. I have no aspirations to do this for a living or to become extremely proficient. I have spent the past couple of weekends struggling with drives and shares and permissions etc. It should be simple but it's hard and takes such a long time.
On your advice because it sounds like you are in a similar situation I will try it.
I've been slowly dipping my toes into self hosting.
What are the risks or disadvantages of using something like this? My plan has been to run debian with whatever services. Reading about this, it seems very complex and that makes me worried that it is more to go wrong.
On the other hand, it'll be 10 years til I learn how to do all this myself.
So is it a good idea or not?
timer plugs are so freaking useful. once you have a couple you start noticing things you could do with them. just regular digital non-smart outlet timers. don't get the analogue ones, they ticktickticktick.
borg is fab; i don't think there is a mobile component tho?
restic iirc is complicated and more advanced
don't forget rsync which is sync but is the basis of various back up tools