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Re:Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids by nickpsecurity on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:56PM (#44589550)
It really isn't. I got my login for dropbox, installed it on some machines, and it was just click upload or download from there. Crwating and using folders was much like on my desktop.

For rsync, a person would have to study it to learn it. They might want to look for potential gotchas in how they configure it, too. The experts at Dropbox already did all that for us, though.

Re:Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids by tiagod on Thursday July 17, 2025 @09:51AM (#44593436)
I wasn't serious. It's a reference to the comments in the initial Dropbox announcement saying it's the same as FTP+SVN+curlftpfs / rsync.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863