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OP was talking about the generous 2.5 GB limit, while you're referring to the stingy 2.5 GB limit.
Indeed, that's why I posted. I found it to be an interesting juxtaposition. :)
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Meanwhile, I found the 2.5 GB limit on Firefox Send really frustrating this weekend when I was trying to send 80 GB of raw video files to a friend. :) Turns out there's very few options available for really large P2P file transfers, short of hosting an FTP server.
Setup a syncthing folder share with your friend. Drop your 80gb in the folder Data syncs over p2p e2ee overnight. Friend removes the copy from their sync folder and it vanishes from yours
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I started using Firefox Send recently, I have been really impressed with the simplicity and easy of use. I haven’t tried it, but it is open source and possible to self-host if you so chose. But for the time being it remains free, and you can share up to a generous 2.5 GB if you log in with a Firefox account so I see no reason to put in the effort yet. That being said, Sharedrop seems to be a different use case, only…
Meanwhile, I found the 2.5 GB limit on Firefox Send really frustrating this weekend when I was trying to send 80 GB of raw video files to a friend. :) Turns out there's very few options available for really large P2P file transfers, short of hosting an FTP server.
Firebase is a really attractive service to quickly and easily bring powerful features to any app, but I can't help it.. I feel like I'd be including yet another way for Google to track people. Therefore I avoid any app with Firebase in them, no matter how cool they are. Am I overly suspicious here?
[0]: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop
Edit: just seen this was mentioned earlier down thread.
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Well, you could use a private tracker/one that doesn't dump it's torrent-list publicly, and mark the torrent file itself as private, so your client won't share it on the DHT. Also, encrypting is orthogonal.
Then find yourself shocked when the far end's torrent client ignores the private setting?
So a good chunk of users will get really angry if a client comes with that bug. I haven't yet even found a way to make any ignore this.
Firebase is a really attractive service to quickly and easily bring powerful features to any app, but I can't help it.. I feel like I'd be including yet another way for Google to track people. Therefore I avoid any app with Firebase in them, no matter how cool they are. Am I overly suspicious here?
> "ShareDrop allows you to send files to other devices in the same local network (i.e. devices with the same public IP address)" That's an interesting definition of "same local network". So, this doesn't work for networks not behind NAT? Or for IPv6?
I believe it means same subnet, but it's possible that it only works behind a NAT because it uses an out-of-network service (Firebase) to tell it who's on a single network (i.e. who has the same public IP).
> who's on a single network (i.e. who has the same public IP)
Those aren't even close to equivalent. Now that most ISPs offer IPv6, they aren't even equivalent most of the time.
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I tried uploading the archive to iCloud, but the server rejected it as too large. None of my other cloud storage accounts had enough free space. Paying for extra space seemed overkill, given that this was literally a one-time P2P file transfer. I really should just be able to send a file to another IP address without having to pay for storage somewhere.
This works _really_ well: https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole