What are you non-obvious, maybe strange usecases of Syncthing?

For example syncing the media library with your friend or maybe your entire /home/user folder between your PC and laptop?

I’d love to hear your ideas!

lnxtx
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Using it in an enterprise environment?

@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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While it may seem unusual to us, a major financial supporter of ST uses it just that way as a third party vendor/consulting service.

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Yep, done that.

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