It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
Not anymore with this?
P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC
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#12Nice design, but that's the kind of functionality that's best integrated within a chat or videoconferencing application, since within a conference you can be pretty sure that you send the file to the right person. For a demo, go to https://galene.org:8443/group/public/hn/ >. Login twice in two different browser tabs (leave the password field empty). Click on the username of your partner, and choose Send file .
In modern conferencing applications, users are not connected with each other, they are connected with a central server.
Transferring files shouldn't involve that central server, so you'd need to establish a direct connection between the users, and with network topologies those days, it will most likely require a relay between the two. It's not great.
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#13It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
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#14It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
Solution I've been using for a while is KDE Connect. Works on windows, linux, android
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#15Reminds me of https://sharedrop.io
It's apparently a fork (Github Readme)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure these are all descendants of SnapDrop, but development or hosting or both seem to keep dying off the various forks every few years.
That one is, apparently, now owned by whoever also owns the zombie brand of LimeWire.
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#16It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
Solution I've been using for a while is KDE Connect. Works on windows, linux, android
I was using it for a while, then something somewhere broke (now it's unable to pair). I haven't really looked into it again since.
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#17It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
Operating system makers would rather sell you a subscription to OneDrive, iCloud, or Google Drive.
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#18It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
It was easy for all of 6 or 7 months on android until someone at google realised their quick share feature prevented them from getting your data and subscription money and proceeded to immediately shoot themselves in the foot.
thank konqi for kde connect.
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#19It's crazy that in 2026, transferring files between two random, willing, devices is still a hassle.
It was easy for all of 6 or 7 months on android until someone at google realised their quick share feature prevented them from getting your data and subscription money and proceeded to immediately shoot themselves in the foot. thank konqi for kde connect.
Wait, what happened to quick share?
Re: P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC
#20This is a similar tool, but it's more like a Swiss Army knife: https://github.com/nuwainfo/ffl