[linsomniac]

Really solid advice.

Going to have to try that remote rebuild, because right now my 10yo T420 takes around an hour to rebuild gitbutler-cli (not yet packaged in NixOS), so that'd be real nice.

I know syncthing has a solid reputation, but I'm a bit reluctant to try it on my home directory (it's super mission critical). Does that interact well with home-manager+SOPS?

Mostly, when I'm away from my workstation, I just connect in from my personal macbook via the "wezterm tmux" feature, since most of what I do is either web or terminal. The need for a "pick up and go" copy is nice but not really necessary. Though in the event my main workstation fails, I should check to see how long an rsync from the restic backup would take. If it takes the better part of a day, that might be compelling to use syncthing, especially as my workstation is a 6+yo laptop.

[hju22_-3]

As a small note against Syncthing, despite how much praise it gets, it's conflict resolution sucks. Enough so that it is easier to nuke it and set it up again instead. If you never have conflicts, it works fine though, but I find that rather unrealistic.

[linsomniac]

Answer about syncthing: I probably would set it up on only a portion of my home directory, not the whole thing, so it wouldn't impact home-manager/SOPS. However, Claude pointed out this potential issue: the bulk of my "projects" directory (my most active directory) is git repos, and (a) those are likely to conflict on both ends (a git pull on both ends), and (b) much of that syncing git can handle (except, of course, uncommitted changes).