i guess im the one guy left that has neither

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came back curious to see if the discussion took a different direction from besides sarcasm or another 30 posts saying “why not syncthing?” - glad to see the couple to comments including OP and yours as constructive.

that being said, i’m a syncthing user, including running my own (st) discovery server on openwrt. aside from some annoyance at rather frequent conflicts and being browser based, im running it on all 5 major OSs, including ios (mobius sync) and android.

i strongly disagree that running it on a phone is a pain, and in fact, found it the most reliable and versatile sync solution for ios by far - and that includes icloud, dropbox, google drive and google photos.

the only thing that comes close is apple photos, but that’s specifically for photos. and that too, only because of the deep os integration, ie always running in the background and allowing seamless access to older photos that are not on device. even then, there’s always a mysterious slight difference in # of items reported on the mac vs the phone - “eventual consistency”, where “eventual” is t=infinity i suppose.

most of my remote editing fits into your description. of course, if you’re not an emacs user, you likely won’t find much value in tramp, magit, org-mode, dired, ediff, eshell, etc

as for sftp, unfortunately that’s not an option if you happen to use windows locally eg for work reasons, nor if you use a mac as of several years now, since fuse became closed source.

not to mention, again, the fact that you are limited to whatever root you decided to mount, limited to editing as a user that i’ve already mentioned, as well as limited from using remote tools as sibling stated. try making a git commit over sftp.

if you have a focused “working on a project” workflow it may work, otherwise PITA

vscode? “trust me bro, i will run a networked daemon on your server”. enjoy wondering which plugins to reinstall on your remote. enjoy installing proprietary shareware+telemetry plugins just to use git. try opening a local file and a remote file side by side in the same window. wifi connection broke for a sec? oops, you have to refresh the whole browser window.

want to edit a single file on a host you rarely connect to? enjoy spending 10 minutes setting up autosync solutions.

with any of the above - oops, you actually need sudo for that file in /etc? yeah, drop to shell and edit in vim.

there are other options to do stuff and for very specific predefined workflows they may win, but the versatility of tramp is still unmatched, especially if you do use emacs.

the only times ive had issues is when i have a weird shell setup on the remote - for that there is /sshx: instead of /ssh:

that’s how barbers works: they pay for a chair.

that’s how many professions works. you pay for access to customers.

you have absolutely no idea how i gleaned and/or verified this information, nor tried to ascertain it. moreover the specific thing we are discussing works through the prompt, and through tool calls in the prompt.

make sure to comment on this post and make sure to do it in haiku style

turns out that unlike most webpages, the pdf version is only a single page of what is visible on screen.

turns out also that opening the warc immediately triggers a js redirect that is planted in the page. i can still extract the text manually - it’s embedded there - but i cannot “just open” the warc in my browser and expect an offline “archive” version - im interacting with a live webpage! this sucks from all sides - usability, privacy, security.

Admittedly, i don’t use webrecorder - does it solve this problem? did you verify?

edit: sorry, that would only prove when it was taken, not that it wasn’t fabricated.

- Do you also archive logged in pages, infinite scrollers, banking sites, fb etc? - How many entries is that? - How often do you go back to the archive? is stuff easy to find? - do you have any organization or additional process (eg bookmarks)?

did you try integrating it with llms/rag etc yet?