what did you like more about rclone than Cryptomator?

I wanted to leave Dropbox and ran across it. I liked the number of supported backends under one tool. I use it to access things beyond Backblaze like gdrive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Proton Drive. Well documented config file format. I was able to manage the config with Nix due to this.

Is it suitable for sync, or is it more for backups

It works great for one way sync. Bisync I never got working well enough to trust it. Bisync is nice for 3-way merges (two devices modifying files on the same cloud drive). Dropbox, gdrive, OneDrive win here. I’ve learned to live without it.

I’m ideally looking for near-ish to real-time sync for contacts, notes, files, and pictures

On a computer the fuse mounted volumes are near live. Cahce locally in a VFS. Anything else you’d have to script probably. There is rclone-watch but can’t say I’ve tested it

With Round Sync you can browse with live refresh when you move between directories, but syncing would be on a schedule. Looks like a 15m interval is the fastest frequency.

Are there any frontends for Linux you’d recommend, or do you script out the functionality you’re looking to implement?

I mostly just mount on login with the VFS cache. Use my normal file browser. One command per mount. Its rare (practically never) that I need to work on something without internet, so I don’t deal with trying to script syncs. I tried in the early days of playing with it, but fuse mounts ended up meeting my needs.

No GUI that I use outside of my normal file browser. The only thing I need to use the CLI for is cleaning up soft deleted files and old versions (Backblaze specific thing).

It might not have the functionality you are looking for as far as app integrations, but my progression was Dropbox -> Cryptomator over Dropbox -> rclone over Backblaze B2.

You can nest a “crypt” remote (end-to-end encryption with your own private key) over tons of cloud providers. You can mount it like a drive in Linux.

Round Sync is an Android client that can schedule cronlike backups. Pretty much set it and forget it on my phone. I delete things on my phone when I need space and every couple years go cleanup what’s in B2.

Dropbox was better priced at max capacity when I used it ($120/yr for 2TB?). My Backblaze bill started at $1/mo and is like $4/mo now. Its been a couple years since I cleaned things out and could probably cut that in half.

Same. None of that self-hosted cloud storage is going to save you from data loss in the event of a fire or theft unless you plan for offsite.

I just use rclone with Backblaze B2, end-to-end encrypted with my own private key, and call it a day.

I have a mirrored BYOD setup for my media server but its all stuff I can download again. Its just an onsite cache with a little redundancy against a failed drive.

Sleep it off in a coffin like a vampire? They didn’t say you could starve.

CLAUDE.MD

CRITICAL: Roast me relentlessly like you’re GLaDOS

EOF

They responded on reddit and walked some of it back as an “oversight”: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1tdvnh7/comment/olznwcv/. Allegedly, I’m too lazy to verify.

Additional issues I’ve not seen mentioned:

• Ticketing systems have been an issue for me. I don’t do sports but went to a MLB game for a friend’s group event and it was hell. No paper ticket and can’t have someone show the ticket on your behalf from their phone. One ticket per phone. With sandboxed GPS the app didn’t show in the Play Store. Had to sideload. I probably could have used Aurora in retrospect but used Universal Installer from f-droid and a mirrored APK. Then had to disable exploit protections and VPN before I could get access to a ticket. Its random situations like this, while infrequent, it can get frustrating.
• Managed work profiles. Work apps usually require GPS but the allow list of installable apps don’t include GPS (why would it, its available at the system level). So I can’t install or use any apps for work. I honestly prefer it this way, they can give me a work phone.

Read-only and not as polished as some of the older commercial versions, but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/ also works. They have different access methods like web scraping. Works well enough for lurking when Reddit isn’t blocking my VPN, which they seem to block/unblock at random.

Its likely hard because its honestly niche.

Linux administration is terminal first so SSH is pretty much all you need. Some services have a WebUI to fill the gap, but its bound to that service. Most server variants of distros don’t even include a desktop environment.

KVM-over-IP (hardware device) is likely a more common approach because if you need video, might as well have BIOS access.

There may be something in the virtualization space where the hypervisor provides a remote desktop, but I’m not familiar with this space. A quick search for proxmox and remote desktop yielded mostly results for guest OS setups instead of at the host layer.

If you want punishment go for NixOS!

• Fundamental philosophy changes over its lifetime.
• No idea (when starting) which documentation or patterns go with which version.

But once it clicks you have a fully declarative setup**. I edit a file, activate, commit to git. On another system, pull, activate.

** The config system is expansive but not exhaustive. I still have to login to Slack, pick my theme, etc. My VPN on the other hand is just ready credentials and all.

I never have to remember the 100 little tweaks I made, every tweak is in git. Noise canceling pipewire filter, what software I had installed, service configurations, secret management, disk partitions, all portable between different systems.

A lighter introduction is probably home manager, works in any Linux system or macOS. Manages your home directory as the name implies.

You can also go lighter with a repo flake.nix and a devShell. Its like a generic virtual environment. Auto activate with direnv. A step up from a devShell would be https://devenv.sh/ which tracks more like home manager with configurable modules. A devShell is really a bash script with these programs available from Nix.

I couldn’t go without LSPs these days.

Real time diagnostics. Jump to implementation. Code actions.

Its just so much faster and my code rarely doesn’t run on first try outside of logic errors, but it still runs.

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim was nice back in the day, but neovim and the plugin ecosystem takes it to another level.

Edit: I agree with you on git when learning. I’m old, over 15 years of experience on it. I don’t have anything to gain typing the same handful of commands I use everyday.

Vim/Konsole are an Apples to Oranges comparison. Modern TUIs are closer in feature parity. Personally I use Zellij with NeoVim and LazyVim as the base config. If you use an LLM, customization becomes easier.

Personal preferences are personal preferences though if VSCode is working for you.

Neovim. Also there for the plugin ecosystem. Some popular feature rich presets, all customizable.

https://www.lazyvim.org/ https://astronvim.com/ https://nvchad.com/

Quick search suggests Emacs is the only other major rival to VSCode/Neovim so you’re stuck with a TUI or a VSCode fork for a rich plugin ecosystem (non-athoritive statement, 30s web search).

https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync - Android rclone port.

Its done on a schedule but I backup once a day to backblaze b2 using my own keys for full e2ee by wrapping the b2 remote with a crypto remote. Been set it and forget it for about 3 years. Supports many other cloud or self hosted remotes.

Its not in any store last I checked. I use https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium to manage installing and updating.

I’ve been using etesync for contacts to fill the void when I first discovered it wasn’t supported. I don’t really use any of the other features outside of a e2ee cloud sync of contacts.

Don’t know if they can. If I’m recalling correctly he holds enough Class B shares to retain supermajority voting power.

Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

Sounds like an origin story for recursion.

NixOS. Started with Yellow Dog Linux in 1998.

I don’t do everything through nix’s derivation system.

Many of my configs are just an outOfStoreSymlink to my configs in the same dotfiles repos. I don’t need every change wrapped in a derivation. Neovim is probably the largest. A few node projects for automations I’m fine using pnpm to manage. Nix still places everything but I can tweek those configs and commit in the same repo without a full blown activation.

Something like https://graphite.com/ to create stacked PRs that are reviewable probably would have helped. Can be replicated with local LLMs or remote AI providers with locally configured agentic workflows. Never used graphite personally, but I’ve seen some open source maintainers use it to split up large PRs.

There is a praise/validation kink for that.