Maybe we don’t need a server

Maybe we don’t need a server Syncthing for notes and photos Have you heard of syncthing ? It syncs a folder between devices, like Dropbox, without the need for someone else’s computer. No cloud, it’s just your pc talking to your phone, directly and automatically, through your home WiFi. It’s a near perfect solution to sync your phone’s photo with your computer, making google photo nearly redundant. It works great for text notes synchronization too, as long as you don’t edit the same file on multiple devices while offline. This got me thinking, how sensible could personal tech be, if it was truly serverless ? More things could be just files Now, this got me wondering : what if my calendar was just a bunch of text files representing events, stored on my drive. What about my mailbox, I…

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