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Fix this stupid fucking issue already

martijnbrekelmans.com

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Isn't Dropbox or similar programs a solution for this issue? You don't have to do anything after installation, it works cross-device, and you have the history.

It doesn't have the "my phone is the server" feature, but neither does it have the never-requested "I just dropped my server in the toilet" feature.

How else are you supposed to flush the cache?

Using the phone as a permanent store is an interesting concept. I'm excited to see tools like ipfs, Camlistore and others emerging in this space, because this is a problem I have too :).

Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) is neat, but lacks support for iOS.

wait, wait.. You want to use your phone as your portable home directory?

Does anyone else see why this is a potentially horrible idea?

how many shitloads in a fuckton? i forget

Let's see here.

* 1 shitload = 1.68 shitslugs

* 68.5 shitslugs = 1 fuckton

So, there are about 40.77 shitloads in a fuckton.

Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy.

> Just don't ask me to convert to metric shitloads, that gets hairy.

You should never mix hairy and shitloads. That one fuckton of clagnuts.

Sounds simple, you should do it!

I can't. I don't have the discipline to finish anything.

It's trivial. I'll do it later ;)

Er.... Gulp tasks & local hosted Git?

This fixes nothing.

> I don't want to make a fucking github repo to sync everything

> The learning experience here is that people DO OR CAN NOT ALWAYS BACKUP. Even seasoned people can be in a hurry sometimes.

With that I meant, do not always have the time. It should be fully transparent, no setup required.

One could probably script a customizable text editor (Emacs, Sublime Text, etc) to automatically init and commit on save to a local revision control repository.

That's kind of a hack though. OS X's Time Machine feature sounds similar to what you want, if it watched for changes constantly instead of every time period (hour I think?). Does anybody know of some open source project similar to Time Machine? I imagine it could be adapted to such a task.

What you really want is a versioning file system.

Exactly.

I'm working on an open source tool which is designed to be a zero config right click context menu with a two entries, "snapshot" and "restore".

When you are offline or online it works with a single click, then syncs to a server once internet is restored. It never deletes old versions, you always have the whole history.

It also is encrypted client side and has data de-duplication. (The deduplication means you can keep snapshotting directories on a timer, and only changes are uploaded) It is not exactly what you described, but I can ping you when it is ready for people to test.

He said he doesn't want a github repo. A local git repo is one "git init" away. That's easier to do than getting a remote file system mounted. Pushing and pulling from local computers is also dead simple (do people really not have ssh set up?).

It sounds easy, but try doing that across my Ubuntu laptop, Windows desktop, Android phone, and iPad. Not going to happen. I mean, do you set up a scheduled task to commit and pull every 5 mins? What happens when you get conflicts? Can you even do that on an iPad?

The closest I've gotten to this nirvana is setting up OwnCloud on my own server, as a personal Dropbox. Can access it locally, or remotely over my VPN

could git annex assistant, it does all that for you.

Git is not "fucking Github".

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