I never used Syncthing but I miss it from the list. Does that not fit this? I mean if you do the initial setup on the non-technical persons device, its basically just copying files into a local folder. The other device grabs it as soon as its online or in the same network right?
How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
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Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#162I 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
This looks impressive. Much less clunky than the Syncthing's interface and doesn't look as buggy as KDE Connect on my first try. The real test would be moving my 95GB DCIM folder from Android to Windows. Let's see how that goes.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#163I regularly have to send files to customers, from a few megabytes to a few gigs. It's incredibly hard. Mail? Goes to spam. WeTransfer? Mail clients break URL. Download from my website? Some stupid browser will display the zip data onscreen. Send the link through messenger? Messenger breaks the link. SaaS gallery? Some file managers can't open the zip file. I've been doing that for two years now. Still don't have a 10…
Most webservers have a way of adding a header# Content-disposition "attachment; filename=$1"; that forces downloads. Nginx at least guesses based on file extension / mime type.
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9054354/how-to-force-fil...
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37131398/how-to-configur...
FYI - I've also recently run across end users who are likely victims of overzealous IT departments that disable Basic Auth, even on HTTPS connections. Even though they don't do anything to form fields which might contain the exact same data. I don't mind if they break their own domains but the whole Internet?
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#164I regularly have to send files to customers, from a few megabytes to a few gigs. It's incredibly hard. Mail? Goes to spam. WeTransfer? Mail clients break URL. Download from my website? Some stupid browser will display the zip data onscreen. Send the link through messenger? Messenger breaks the link. SaaS gallery? Some file managers can't open the zip file. I've been doing that for two years now. Still don't have a 10…
in the mid 90s i worked in a machine shop that had a side business where they had catalogs. They were trying to send .TIFF files over 14.4 or 28.8 modems. TIFF files over 10MB, so no floppy (easily.) No CD-R, Jazz/zip.
These days in the same circumstance as you (and they) had, i'd fedex them a USB stick, or optical disc, depending. Because the first time someone said "the web page you linked is just displaying garbage" i'd turn in my tech credentials, because that's probably my server's fault, not the browser. MIME has been a thing for three decades, at least. it sounds like someone tried to use a static html daemon to share a zip file, and it assumes everything is ascii. like it's 19xx and zmodem hasn't been invented yet.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#165I must be missing something, but right-click -> share already works just fine? Share with kde connect, select your windows, linux, iOS, android whatever device, done. The only restriction is that both devices are connected to the same WiFi. Why are you looking for cloud solutions for a local transfer?
does this work in reverse? I took a video on my phone and now i want to put it on my computer but my kid took my USB cable to school...
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#166Writing 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.
Microsoft's Nearby Share isn't the same as Android's Quick Share (formerly Nearby Share). You can download an app to get Google's share feature working, though, but that doesn't fix the problem.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#167I regularly have to send files to customers, from a few megabytes to a few gigs. It's incredibly hard. Mail? Goes to spam. WeTransfer? Mail clients break URL. Download from my website? Some stupid browser will display the zip data onscreen. Send the link through messenger? Messenger breaks the link. SaaS gallery? Some file managers can't open the zip file. I've been doing that for two years now. Still don't have a 10…
Nextcloud works well for this, and as the files are already on your server you don't have to upload anywhere, you just share the folder, put an expiry date on and send them the url
Note: your customers do not require an account in your Nextcloud. You can share by link, and optionally add a password too.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#168I don't quite get it: What's the problem with Dropbox and co? Why this rule 1, to not use an account from an existing online service? Because of privacy? Or principles? I don't think this is so much a problem for the average non-technical person. If privacy is the reason, maybe encrypt it?
Yes because privacy MATTERS, and principles to only use open source and contribute back, even if its "only" a bug report matter too. Encrypting single files and also their names is a pain in the ass even for technical people. Its too many steps and just does not flow. If you have some kind on encrypted container you have one big file that you need to re-upload over and over again to share what is in it. A solution that is encrypted by design and the server never ever knows what is in the file it transfers to different devices is the way to go here and Dropbox and all the shitty for profit services to not offer that AFAIK.
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#169Why don't we just put SSH scp on all devices?
Can it work without ssh server?
Re: How to copy a file between devices? (2022)
#170In an ideal world any hosts have an IPv6 global and any human have at least a domain name, with relevant subdomains for hes/shes own devices, a simple thing also offered to non technical users by ISPs in the form of a homeserver-router like the real one they offer but not crap, without violation of GPL, without doing their development just to milk data from users etc. So in an ideal world anyone can share files direc…
Unfortunately I think it would take governments to start waking up and treating internet access as a public utility. Even then they'd have to compete with ad companies to get the right people to do the job.
I think governments like the large availability of OSINT data from big tech, in a technically sound IT such giant collections would be far harder and limited... Similarly the effectiveness of modern propaganda would be far limited.
The power of IT is the power to store, analyze, craft, manipulate information, if you give it to the most than the most can be Citizen not just slaves...