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by gausswho 355 days ago
At least on the Android front, I'd prefer the app allow me to write to my own storage target. The reason is because I already use Syncthing-Fork to monitor a parent Sync directory of stuff (Obsidian, OpenTracks, etc.) and send to my backup system. In effect it allows apps to be local first and potentially even without network access, but allow me to have automatic backups.

If there were something that formalized this a little more, developers could even make their apps in a... Bring Your Own Network... kinda way. Maybe there's already someone doing this?
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TekMol 355 days ago
What do you mean by "storage target"?

Since the File Access API lets web apps simply use the file system, I guess you could just write the file to a shared drive.

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gausswho 354 days ago
I may have misunderstoood. Does that mean with this API on both desktop and phone I can point to an arbitrary drive on the system without restriction? If so, it does indeed do what I'd like.
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TekMol 354 days ago
That's basically how the File System Access API works, yes.

Technically probably not completely "without restriction". But for all practical purposes, it works just fine for me.

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tehbeard 354 days ago
The closest I'm aware of is https://remotestorage.io/ , the protocol has been relatively static for a while but not widely adopted.
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