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GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

salamanding

lyrics from I Feel So Weird! by Cheekface

memorymachinegirl

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that's right and good

catcrumb

nadianova

now that we are all forcibly assigned teen by discord age regression style and everyone has cancelled their nitro. everyone whose been using a solo discord server as your paste bin and project planning folder to hold stuff you can get from your phone and pc both its about time you start saving shit and hop on obsidian. with syncthing you can get it realtime synced between your mobile and pc and any devices for free too. don't pay for monthly fees.

nadianova

no you dont. thats what using obsidian with syncthing is for. theres many other ways to set up free multi device syncing with obsidian. syncthing is just what i use

mr-elementle

syncthing can be used for fucking anything, im serious if you have a home computer/laptop/steamdeck/phone any kind of multidevice infrastructure, fucking set up synththing, i use it to keep my emulator saves synced between my phone, steamdeck, and pc. when I add books to my calibre library they auto download to my ereader and tablet (You have to have android ones like onyxboox for this), my music collection can be accessed and edited from any of my devices anywhere using a simple home server and syncthing to keep the files up to date between my phone, laptop and server, I can add songs from my phone or computer and they'll auto fill the server. Syncthing can unironically replace so many payed services it's crazy, want to sync your writing without google drive or any paid service? just use libreoffice and syncthing, want to be able to keep drawing between your pc wacom and your tablet? pick a program that supports both and syncthing the project files, Want cloud saves between a steamdeck and pc for non steam games? you'll never guess what syncthing can do.

ruffboi-mags

To be clear, because it took me like five reads to realize this: the above posters are not saying "syncing can replace so many paid services" or "syncing can real-time sync info between your devices".

They are saying SyncThing, an open souce piece of software, can replace a number of paid services.

Just in case someone was confused and thought "syncthing" was a typo or didn't even notice the 'th' like I did. XD

rohirric-hunter

I LOVE SYNCTHING !!!!!!

Let me ramble about Syncthing it's so good. When I jumped ship on Google docs years ago, there was no replacement for a live-hosted service that would allow me to access and edit my writing from any device. Ellipsus didn't exist yet, and while there were paid services that were all right, but I didn't have a stable source of income at the time and wasn't able to justify the expense.

I got Lite Writer on my phone, which is an excellent text editor and the only one I will ever use on my phone again. After using it for free for a few months, during which time I transfered .txt files from my phone to my computer by sending them to myself via Discord, which, yes, was exactly as awful as it sounds, I forked up a one-time payment of $20 to unlock the ability to use Lite Writer to easily set up a WebDav server on my phone which I could connect to on my computer. (Spoiler: I don't use this feature anymore, but I have no regrets for this purchase. $20 is a small price to pay to support the lone dev who made the only text editor I will ever use on my phone again.) This worked all right for a while, but there are some technical aspects of WebDav servers I don't quite understand and in order to access the server I had to have my phone and computer connected to the same wifi network, which was often a pain.

Enter Syncthing. Syncthing privately syncs the folders you select to the devices you select over any internet connection. These files are never stored on any computer except the ones you select, so you don't have to worry about Google or anyone else having regular access to your files. It works by sending a signal to each computer a folder is synced to whenever you change something in the folder, updating the equivalent folder on each device. It syncs almost instantly. I've been using it for months and had no problems. You can download it from the link above for your computer: on my phone I use Syncthing-Fork, which is maintained by different people but which works flawlessly. Listen this is so plug'n'play. Setting up folders to share between my phone and computers is a matter of scanning a QR code. It is so easy. Syncthing-Fork has all sorts of options that let me control how it works: I have some folders that are just text and I let them sync over mobile data but folders with bigger files can only sync over wifi to save data. It's so good. Each folder is managed separately so I can share them with whatever devices I want. I haven't tried, but I bet it has great applications for co-authoring or sharing your work with friends.

I also use it to transfer files between my phone and computer if I can't or don't want to physically plug my phone into my computer. I just copy the file into a synced folder on one device, and pull it out on the other side. It is so easy and convenient and listen. Listen. It is so easy and plug'n'play. Try it. Try it now. You want to try Syncthing