This is a brief (2025) overview of my Syncthing setup and the method to the madness when it comes to synchronizing data across multiple computers with some phones thrown in to the party. It is a little different from other solutions such as Google Drive or Dropbox as the data rests (is stored) locally on my NAS instead of the cloud.
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How I Use Ansible (2025)
As I am nearing 100 commits on one of my Ansible repos, I figured that it would be a good time to share how I use Ansible to configure VPSes, VMs and LXCs at home and in the lab, and at work.
TL;DR: Configuration files and tasks are documented which is helpful for when I configure a service and not look at it for months at a time. Also, regularly committing changes to the roles and playbooks also serves as a log of what I did and sometimes why certain changes made sense at the time.
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