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I know. there's totally not a command called rsync. And "replication" is just a word you hear on star trek along with teleportation.

• mmt 8y ago
  Although I agree with your premise, I think the delivery takes away from your point a bit. Specifically, you risk people piling on that rsync isn't good enough in the modern world and referencing the comment criticizing Dropbox as being little more than an rsync replacement [1]. Of course, the specific tool one uses is irrelevant. The data synchronization problem may not be well solved, but it has been very well studied, with a remarkable number of good-enough options. So, no, there isn't just one "sync" button, as the parent comment snarkily suggested, but there may be two, one where you might lose the last N seconds of chat (perhaps temporarily) and another where you lose the ability to chat entirely for those N seconds. [1] Although it had other criticisms, such as monetization, which are, naturally, ignored.