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107 points sirbread | 2 comments | 27 Jun 25 06:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source

i made sink. it's a simple little tool that continuously syncs folders between 2 devices. no cloud, no email, flash drives, no bs.

it just uses your local wifi. run it on your machines, tell them to trust each other, and you're set. and if you manage to edit the same file at once, it handles the conflict and saves both copies.

for anyone who just wants to get files from point a to b without the headache. hope it makes your life a bit less annoying.

github: https://github.com/sirbread/sink binary: https://github.com/sirbread/sink/releases/tag/v0.1

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dewey ◴[27 Jun 25 06:48 UTC] No.44394289[source]▶
What is the selling point over the very mature Syncthing? I’ve been using that for this use case for many years, with the additional benefit of also being able to sync it to my server, having a UI and being in all package managers already.
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donatj ◴[27 Jun 25 09:19 UTC] No.44395219[source]▶
Syncthing is the most confounding user-unfriendly software I have ever had the displeasure of using. It makes a process that should be pretty easy, pick some folders and share some keys remarkably painful and convoluted.
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agildehaus ◴[27 Jun 25 14:19 UTC] No.44397007[source]▶
Has any open-source project done it better? Serious question, I've been looking.
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1. deepspace ◴[27 Jun 25 15:10 UTC] No.44397388[source]▶
I used Unison many years ago, and it worked perfectly for all my use cases. Not sure how it stacks up these days. CLI only IIRC.
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2. 127dot1 ◴[27 Jun 25 16:00 UTC] No.44397834[source]▶
I still use Unison as it is simpler than Syncthing.

It does have GUI, which I use. I wouldn't call it pretty or polished, but it works and I understand how it works and the way it works is exactly how I think syncing should work.

I've also configured it to run a GUI diff tool diffuse to easily combine changes in case of conflicts (when a file was changed on both sides since the last sync).

I wish it was a bit more modern and re-written in a modern language, but that's secondary qualities for a program.