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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • That sounds like a huge pain.

    Yeah I started my Linux adventures on Ubuntu but got frustrated and restarted on Mint. I’ve been setting up some home servers on old laptops I acquired for free.

    I’ve been enjoying Mint enough that I switched over my MacBook, but my desktop is still on MacOS til I figure out a couple more things.

    I will say that SyncThing is absolutely fantastic for syncing files between devices, but not useful if you only want them in one spot.


  • I’m not super experienced, but I just got file sharing working on a couple of Mint machines.

    I had to install Samba and create a Samba user to be able to access from another computer. (I just made the Samba user the same as the computers’ login)

    It was a super simple terminal line to do so, but I’m at work right now and don’t have access to the tutorial I bookmarked.

    I also followed a tutorial to add right-click shortcuts for sharing in Thunarr (not sure what you’re using for a file browser)

    Oh, but when I do connect to one machine from the other a dialogue asks me if I want to forget the password immediately, remember until I log out, or remember forever. Maybe that’s the piece you’re missing…



  • You pretty much said what I would’ve said, but probably better :)

    I have 3 Macs I want to switch to Linux, so I’m approaching this conversion piece by piece, using my thinkpads as placeholders. Figuring out new cloud software can wait until they’re all switched.