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One of the best pieces of open source software that I use all the time is Syncthing.

It just works. It is so good.

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Adrianna Tan

My main use case is that I have an old PC that I use to connect to a 1990s film scanner. I got tired of using all kinds of portable hard drives to move stuff from one computer to another.

I have a NAS set up at home and I just do Syncthing on the NAS and the PC so it's always uploaded with the latest scans.

Later I pull the files I want into my Mac to do more work on the digital negatives.

there's probably a world i get ssd drives on my NAS and write / work out of them directly, but today is not the day

@skinnylatte I have a couple of clients who prefer to use voice messages to communicate. I do better with written instructions, so I use Syncthing to pull the audio from my phone to my laptop to transcribe locally with Whisper (simple Python script and a systemd unit + timer). The transcript is then saved in another synced directory so I can read the transcript from my phone. Oh, and routing when I'm not on the local network is handled by Tailscale!

@skinnylatte All that to say, it's so cool to be able to use all of this openly available software to make hugely beneficial tools/systems like this for myself!

@skinnylatte Just curious—what scanner? I still have an Epson V300 I haven’t used since my early film photography days scanning negatives and slides.

@genxjamerican I have a Plustek 8200i and a Nikon CoolScan 8000ED