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The future of Linux
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I've seen some of that just with Syncthing.
The ability to take a picture with my phone, and by the time I want to do anything with it it's already on my desktop. And that it doesn't go out to the "cloud," it's all done on my local machines, under my control.
Basically read Syncthing's documentation, it's pretty easy to set up. It's a peer-to-peer system, you install Syncthing on every machine you want (and it's available for basically every platform except iOS) and then you can introduce them together and set up shared folders. It can work across the internet, but I have it to work LAN only. My pictures folders are synced, so when I take a picture with my phone, it is automatically synced to my computer. I have my documents folder on my desktop and laptop synced too.