Ayo actually, could you walk me through a bit of how you've set up SyncThing? I've tried setting something like it up in the past, and it just wouldn't freaking work. My only real cloud storage setup is Google Drive and that kept giving me a "browser not trusted" error.
How familiar are you with Syncthing? It’s not cloud storage per se, it’s just sync. But if you have an always on device (like a NAS) then it can act as a sort of half-way house.
You just have to hope that NAS is backed up somewhere offsite.
But I can absolutely walk you through what I did to install it on CachyOS (used Octopi basically) and then set it up as a service to launch when the system boots.
Once it’s all setup, I basically repeated on my other devices (office PC, home server, handhelds) and then pointed it to folders I wanted to sync.
On SteamOS you can install SyncThingy, go to the app settings and copy the command to paste into the Terminal. Once that’s done it works in Game Mode, which is the ideal as you want it to sync any changes immediately.
I’ve found it’s not at all heavy on my battery life, which is a win.
At the moment, as I’ve just done an OS reinstall, it’s essentially just my Steam Grid folder (so I only need to set custom artwork once, and it propagates across devices) and a “Quick Transfer” folder to move files between devices easily.
But I’m gonna start installing emulators soon, and start fresh on all my Apple devices too, so my use cases for it will expand from there.
Emulator save sync is a godsend. As is synchronising downloads from Mac to Deck.
