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I love Atuin, but have some reservations about a shared server keeping all my shell history and agent sessions. Am I being too paranoid and missing out on convenience?

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It is encrypted client side. Or you can run your own server.

> Am I being too paranoid and missing out on convenience?

No, I'd say it is more-so a lack of reading the article that is causing you to miss out.

I did read the article but missed that. Paranoia can definitely co-occur with distracted reading, they're independent dimensions ;)

Thanks for the info, will give it a try

Same, I really wanted to share history, but when I realised I was going to need to send things to a remote server I instead wrote a tiny script to search through backups that are shared across machines by Syncthing.

I just search over $BACKUPS/*/latest/local/share/fish/fish_history with grep and skim

Nice solution

Atuin offers a self-hosted backend server for syncing, so you don't need to trust anybody

It's centralized, which is annoying unless you can trust A machine you own to be up and reachable by all others all of the time.

Atuin is open source, you can just host your own server?

Fair enough, I missed that. Will give it a try!

But… you don't have to sync anything?

I cant get used to it taking over the entire screen when scrolling history

I faced this too! Turned out it’s an easy config change to limit to height of your choice

atuin config set inline_height 5

export ATUIN_NO_MOUSE=true

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