Randall Munroe shows us how it’s done:
Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend’s laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.
Sad that this XKCD from 2011 is still just as accurate today…
Only because IPv6 and self-hosting are not mainstream yet. But if it were commonplace for everyone’s home to have something as simple as a public file server or SSH server, then this problem would be trivialized.
Opera tried to make self-hosting mainstream back in 2009 with Opera Unite, but regular people just weren’t interested. It was a web server built in to the browser, which had a few apps like a whiteboard, a way to write notes, file transfers, etc.
Also, IPv6 is already mainstream in some countries. In the USA, several of the mobile networks are IPv6-only, using 464XLAT to allow connections to legacy IPv4-only servers. Comcast/Xfinity was also the first ISP to roll out IPv6 at a wide scale, and the majority of their customers had IPv6 connectivity way back in 2014 or so.
Globally, around 50% of traffic to Google and 60% of traffic to Facebook are using IPv6.
Kde connect all day erry day
kde connect and syncthing both just work, and it’s amazing
I use a USB cable with file transfer. I also do phone file management like this because it’s easier
Syncthing is amazing though.
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It’s really not if you have the right setup at home, instead of using somebody else’s servers. Like nobody has a NAS or their own servers?
It’s much nicer not worrying about who can get to my files in the cloud, when they’re not in the cloud.
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Or just use a USB cable.
For phone-to-computer it works fine. But double-sided boi will still win if you need to send files to a dumber device like a printer – those don’t typically support MTP or whatever iphones use. Unless you have an ancient android phone that gives full block-level access to the internal storage/microsd card through usb cable lol. I really miss that feature.
No shout out for my boi, LocalSend?
Shiiit dude thanks! Installed - definitely a keeper
You’re welcome! 😊
Is safe?
How do you mean?
Is it vetted by someone reputable?
I am unaware of any independent audit. That being said, it is opensource. Given that and its popularity, I am, personally, quite confident in its safety.
Right on. Thank you
You’re welcome ☺️
So we’re reinventing
scpnow?For what LocalSend is designed, imo, it is more convenient to use than
scp— by quite a large margin.
