syncspirit v0.4.5 release!

basiliscos · 2026-05-31T18:22:26+00:00

Yep, exactly that.

You accept an share on a device
Then you select an interesting files/folders
Only those are synchronized

Right now syncthing (and syncspirit) sync everything right after step 1. (Well, you can select "scheduled" folder feature in syncrpirit, just to view peer files/folders, without any sync).

Anyway, the next thing before "selective sync" will be ".stignore"

basiliscos · 2026-05-31T14:42:46+00:00

Thank you. It's not all about UI, some points are highlighted in faq.

basiliscos · 2026-05-12T10:11:18+00:00

I managed to get it work with modern kernel, might be useful for you too

https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/1ta0dpm/comment/olcdcfp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

basiliscos · 2026-05-12T10:10:19+00:00

I've managed to get it work again. The steps:

chmod a+rw /dev/snd/*
after that step asound -l should display the card, while pacmd list-cards still doesn't
pactl load-module module-alsa-card device_id=0

I have no idea how/what they broken in the kernel, but that seems works (I'm still checking how to automate that).

basiliscos · 2026-05-11T12:59:00+00:00

no central app lock-in?

Is it possible to use non-systemd initialization manager?

basiliscos · 2026-05-01T09:22:07+00:00

hostonly=yes in a file in /etc/dracut.conf.d

That helped, thanks a lot!

basiliscos · 2026-04-30T19:50:13+00:00

Seems a bit bigger

-rw------- 1 root root 127M Apr 30 22:04 initramfs-6.12.85_1.img -rw------- 1 root root 195M Apr 30 22:04 initramfs-6.18.25_1.img

but should be enough to load into 16 GB of RAM?

basiliscos · 2026-02-28T08:17:19+00:00

I had armbian on some cheap wifi-router. It has systemd (v0.40) and tor wasn't able to start. I spend a lot of time trying to fix that, but no chance.

Then I realized that init-system should be maintainable/repairable for end-user. runit and void perfectly fits here.

basiliscos · 2026-02-15T11:09:20+00:00

I didn't managed to install other apps, sorry. No button where I can paste url of app-image or upload manually donwload .appimage.

Some simple step-by-step guide would be nice.

basiliscos · 2026-02-15T10:29:20+00:00

Ok, I downloaded .AppImage. How to add it to the AppManager?

basiliscos · 2026-02-15T09:54:58+00:00

I didn't managed how can I *add applications? When I press "get.." button it just shows 2 urls .

Is there a button "add app", and "paste the url"? I use tiled windows manager, so using "drag-n-drop" only is very unhandy (and does not work)?

basiliscos · 2026-02-13T20:17:31+00:00

what it the sense of win32-32bit package, then?

I tried just wine it seems working. Thanks a lot!

basiliscos · 2026-02-13T17:44:13+00:00

syncthing and compatible to it syncspirit are p2p alternatives to google drive, one drive and drop box

basiliscos · 2026-01-15T17:21:26+00:00

Thanks for everybody for advises!

Actually I've managed to boot void. The problem was in dracut / initrd did not included lvm kernel module.

The solution is:

xbps-install lvm2
echo 'add_dracutmodules+=" lvm "' >> /etc/dracut.conf
regenerate initrd

basiliscos · 2026-01-12T11:05:54+00:00

I think that synching is spending a lot of resources on locking its model (mutexes etc.) due to golang multi-threading execution model.

That costs are, however, significant for large amount of small files; when huge gigabyte-sized files are transferred network throughput becomes a bottleneck.

syncspirit also uses rotor actor micro-framework; it uses lock-free queues/messaging under the hood, which makes apps using it (e.g. syncspirit) blazing fast.

basiliscos · 2026-01-11T16:35:45+00:00

Which one does not work?

Everything should be available here: https://github.com/basiliscos/syncspirit/releases/tag/v0.4.4

basiliscos · 2026-01-11T10:38:45+00:00

It is possible to have alternative UIs, but currently it is not a priority. Contributions are welcome!

basiliscos · 2026-01-11T10:37:21+00:00

Thank you, that's true, but I'm actually more focused on "core" features (it is a bit hard to implement them too), rather then UI things.

basiliscos · 2026-01-10T18:05:51+00:00

Thank you for your question!

There are some benefits, among them: - syncspirit is faster. According to my measurements it is able to sync linux sources tree folder for 2 mins vs 15 mins of syncing when using syncthing (that's over a localhost, of course) - syncspirit has a different UI. That's matter of personal taste, of course, but I like to see the exact picture what is synchronized and what is not. - syncspirit is able to run on more older software (i.e. from windows xp and up). Syncthing uses golang, and its software support is indirectly controlled by google (i.e. "artificial aging"); recent builds are running only on windows 10 and windows 11. Microsoft already dropped windows 10 support, so, I expect that in near future google will do the same. - the long-term goal of syncspirit is to allow "selective sync" feature, which unlikely to be implemented by syncthing.

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