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   Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:55:19 JST Clive Thompson

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   • Ben Curthoys

   @bencurthoys

   whoa that is SUPER cool

   I'm gonna tinker with that this weekend, thank you!!

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     Ben Curthoys (bencurthoys@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:55:20 JST Ben Curthoys

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     @clive Also there's https://syncthing.net/

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:55:21 JST Clive Thompson

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     • Charlie Stross
     • Wolf_Baginski
     • arclight
     • tony hawk tuah

     @cstross @arclight @Wolf_Baginski @outie

     Yep that’s a good idea

     I might give that a whirl!

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:55:22 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Wolf_Baginski
     • arclight
     • tony hawk tuah

     @clive @arclight @outie @Wolf_Baginski Scriv under WINE might not sync direct to Dropbox, but have you looked into rclone? A cron job to run rclone regularly between the directory you store your Scriv projects in and your Dropbox account would probably work. Or write a shell script wrapper for Scriv that manually runs rclone to sync changes when you quit?

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:55:23 JST Clive Thompson

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     • Charlie Stross
     • Wolf_Baginski
     • arclight
     • tony hawk tuah

     @arclight @outie @Wolf_Baginski @cstross

     I tried Wine — it worked well, but as I recall made it impossible to synchronize a Scrivener file to other machines via dropbox or other cloud-storage services

     I currently hop between a Mac laptop and a windows desktop, opening my Scrivener file on either one

     Last time I tried to do that with wine on Ubuntu it wouldn’t sync …. Maybe there’s a way to make it work I hadn’t hit a pond?

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     Wolf_Baginski (wolf_baginski@meow.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 05:55:25 JST Wolf_Baginski

     • Charlie Stross
     • arclight
     • tony hawk tuah

     @arclight @outie @cstross

     Scrivener on Wine appears to depend on fully working Vulkan, so some older graphics hardware is problematic.

     You can still get Scrivener 1.9 for Linux but I cannot recommend it.