I've been using Snapdrop for years, it's basically AirDrop for any device.
It's not the same thing. You can't right click a file on your PC or mac and click send, nor you can open an image on a photo app on mobile and use share.
How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
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Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#152Magic Wormhole has been the obvious and usual answer for the last 10 years or so.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#153Writing code is fun, but I can't find much of a downside with Bluetooth here. "You can accidentally turn it on" (fair, I guess?) "and it drains battery like crazy" (it shouldn't unless you have a very buggy device) don't seem like that bad compared to Yet Another File Sharing App. I remember way back in the Android 4 era, my phone and my tablet both supported some "standard" form of WiFi Direct. It worked intuitively…
I wrote a similar comment but so far have only received downvotes without any feedback as to why people seem to disagree with me. Admittedly, maybe my position is a bit more extreme, in that I think it would be pretty reasonable to consider applying political pressure or even legislating to improve file sharing and interoperabiliy between devices. I'd prefer it if big tech companies would just come together and imple…
>I'd prefer it if big tech companies would just come together and implement support for full cross platform file transfers
How would this help them coerce people to stay within one vendor's ecosystem? It wouldn't.
>The goal would be that ultimately you'd have seamless basic interoperability between devices without having to install third-party apps.
Interoperability is the last thing that some big tech companies want.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#154Writing code is fun, but I can't find much of a downside with Bluetooth here. "You can accidentally turn it on" (fair, I guess?) "and it drains battery like crazy" (it shouldn't unless you have a very buggy device) don't seem like that bad compared to Yet Another File Sharing App. I remember way back in the Android 4 era, my phone and my tablet both supported some "standard" form of WiFi Direct. It worked intuitively…
> it's time Microsoft, Google, and the various Android manufacturers got their shit together and developed some kind of open sharing system
There is one: Quick Share/Nearby Share. It's supported on both Windows and Android.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#155Bluetooth file transfer is not accessible enough for non-technical people? I mean I guess you have to mark the device you want to send to as "discoverable". If anything the real problem is that it's not very fast, but that's only an issue if you are sending particularly large files. This is still often my go-to solution aside from Tailscale's Taildrop feature.
>Bluetooth file transfer is not accessible enough for non-technical people? It's incredibly difficult. Do you have any idea how "non-technical" these "non-technical" people are? I know people that use phone every day to make calls as send messages, take photos, browse Facebook, read emails and they could not send an email with a file attachment to save their life. Asking that kind of person to: 1. Enable Bluetooth an…
We did it all the time before smartphones, 'bluetoothing' ringtones or images (especially if lucky enough to have a 'cameraphone') to each other.
I suppose it depends what you mean by 'non-technical', maybe our parents couldn't have and we were 'tech-savvy' in the way that children are, but this was normal, what everyone did, and of course many in 'non-technical' work now, didn't study CS, etc.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#156I use either Whatsapp or Telegram to send myself a message.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#157AirDrop or pbcopy/pbpaste on the command line (piping through base64/tar) between my own devices or Synology NAS to share with someone outside or Google Drive worked well enough for me.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#158Isn’t https://wormhole.app/ the solution here? Note I haven’t used it, it’s just often brought up here as a good solution for this class of problem. Is it surprising that the author mentions a ton of solutions but not this one? I would think a deep dive of file sending applications would include this, it’s old enough and well known enough in circles that its exclusion in a comparison of file sending approaches does f…
Here is a list of open source options. This isn't the first time I have shared this on here either. Perhaps this is another sign that web search is failing us. SnapDrop - Site: https://snapdrop.net/ - Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop ShareDrop - Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/ - Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop FilePizza - Site: https://file.pizza/ - Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza…
None of them work like Airdrop or Nearby Share. You can't right click a file in the file explorer on PC or Mac and share it. Nor you can open a photo on your mobile photo app and chose share.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#159Taildrop, WebRTC based Snapdrop or plain old 'python -m http.server 2077'
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#160I haven't had much luck with this on ios devices, everything else i have something that will work - matrix, misskey, etc. But realistically, i solved this 10 years ago or so by buying a Synology diskstation. I don't have access to it outside of the house, but that's why i run nextcloud in a DC, too.
For a long while for stuff like sending drone footage to a friend while on my cellphone only i'd use syncthing, but it was very fiddly and hard to use in the winter, and i never got a "here's your link" thing, which may be fixed now. So i'd have to edit the filename and remember it, and then type the whole FQDN and URI to send someone a link.
Nextcloud handles this much better. Misskey also handles this better, although i don't use it for large files. But at home, synology. There's clients for nearly everything including smart TV devices, and between computers i can use NFS or CIFS. I can even link https:// download links locally.
Let's just remember, folks, we had fully p2p video chat on windows, and then techbros started buying up huge portions of ipv4 because their antics were getting subnets blocked at routers, and now i've never (and i mean not one time) been able to get an open ipv6 port to accept traffic on a home device. Additionally, i barely remember what life was like without CGNAT, as i've been behind it for a decade with 3 ISPs.
So i don't really care if you or your grandparents or kids can transfer files easily. use a USB stick like i do with my in-laws, neighbors, and whatnot. You did this to yourself. Enjoy your fb messenger - and email spam, though!
-signed by someone who had /28 on GTE.net DSL 26 years ago