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For this I created a public Backblaze bucket, created a lifecycle rule that deletes files after 7 days, created an application key with write privileges but not read ones, then wrote a script that uploads an arbitrary file under a random name so only people with the name will be able to download or overwrite it. The best part is that the file is available under an HTTP direct link, not behind an obscure webpage with…
For this I created a public Backblaze bucket, created a lifecycle rule that deletes files after 7 days, created an application key with write privileges but not read ones, then wrote a script that uploads an arbitrary file under a random name so only people with the name will be able to download or overwrite it. The best part is that the file is available under an HTTP direct link, not behind an obscure webpage with…
How can you be sure the underlying storage provider actually deleted the file?
I was forced to go digging for a solution that supported Mac, iOS, Android and Windows. Localsend is available through the app stores and on github. I haven't had much occasion to use it yet, but here's another to add to your lists: https://github.com/localsend/localsend
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Yes, this is killing me. I have a colleague that told me "on iPhones I can super easily share files to someone else", and I'm like "20 years ago sharing files across devices was a non-issue, because we had STANDARDS (ok maybe 17-18 years ago rather). Sharing files wasn't considered a feature worth mentioning because every phone supported this out of the box (well not exactly, so the feature was having Bluetooth). Tec…
Is bluetooth not usable anymore?
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> Writing code is fun, but I can't find much of a downside with Bluetooth here. Yesterday my son needed to transfer a video file from his Android phone to his school iPad. We tried Bluetooth, but it simply kept failing, no matter what we tried. The devices saw each other and could be paired, but file transfer didn't work at all. We tried sending the same video file to another Android phone, and it just worked on firs…
Give those options a try: - https://www.sharedrop.io/ - https://webwormhole.io/ - https://snapdrop.net/ - https://perguth.de/peertransfer/ - https://pairdrop.net/
Isn’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…
JustBeamIt
- Site: https://justbeamit.com
- Source: https://github.com/justbeamit/beam
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>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…
lol. You elongated this by assuming Bluetooth is disabled on both devices, which is not the default state on any OS I am aware of. The actual step list looks like this: 1. Enable Bluetooth discoverability on the target device. 2. Share file over Bluetooth on source device. 3. Accept the file transfer on target device. You don't need to add extra steps for things like "wait", that's the same for any kind of I/O operat…
I don't know why you are so annoyed, but I know for a fact that average non-technical person is incapable of sharing files over Bluetooth on their own, and this probability of incapacity increases with age.
Taildrop suits some cases, but the UI is poor (sudo taildrop get etc), and there are many use cases where taildrop is not useful or impossible.
You could have a Tailscale serve where all devices could add to and remove from it. A bit like a mini webserver.
Bluetooth 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…
Receiver steps:
1. Double-click bluetooth taskbar icon
2. "Send or receive files via Bluetooth
3. Receive files then wait for sender & transfer
4. Choose location to put the files
Sender steps:
1. Choose file
2. Press Share
3. Choose Bluetooth
4. Choose target device
Four steps on both sides. Slow for a few MB photo though.