I just had to email me a file I got sent to my phone and I feel unable to accept this as the better solution.
What you do guys use for inter-device communication?
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- early_riser@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
I also like LocalSend. Not quite as automagical as airdrop but it’s cross platform
- gajahmada@awful.systemsEnglish3 months
I would argue it being cross-platform is magical.
There also copyparty. I don’t personally used it but their release video is fun AF.
3 monthsOn the same network with device discovery localsend can be a good alternative.
It works on most devices, even IOS IIRC
- Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 months
PC to phone:
- USB cable
- KDE Connect
- Nextcloud
- Syncthing
PC to PC:
- USB drive
- SFTP
- SSH
- Nextcloud
- Syncthing
Phone to PC:
- USB cable
- KDE Connect
- Nextcloud
- Syncthing
- Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 months
I’m aware, but some devices I use regularly like an iPhone, work computer, etc, are limited in their capacity to run it.
- lemonhead2@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
- syncthing (file synchronization)
- kdeconnect (file transfers, clipboard sharing, presentation remote)
- deskflow (keyboard and mouse sharing)
- warpinator (one off file sharing)
- rsync / scp (one off file copies / backups)
For sending files between a phone and a PC, I use KDE Connect.
For sending files between PCs, I use SSH.
Both are really simple and lightweight tools that normally come preinstalled, and you can use them with no configuration.
- greenashura@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
Adding to this, there’s a gnome extension so you can use KDE connect without KDE DE.
- Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 months
So does KDE Connect. It’s a standalone program that happens to also be integrated into the KDE DE.
No, not on GNOME Desktops, that’s the reason you need to install GSConnect on GNOME. If you install just KDE Connect on a GNOME system, you will not have it integrated.
- 2 months
yes clipboard sharing and single file transfer is with KDE connect king
and Keepass and obsidian an photos with syncthing
- terminal@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
Everyone else mentioned most of what I would suggest.
One is missing for your original problem. Localsend. Think airdrop but cross platform. Super useful if you have a mix of devices (iOS, android, windows, etc…)
There’s PairDrop, you can self host it but iirc it transfer via webrtc so as long as the devices ‘see’ one another there’s no mitm.
- fartsparkles@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
This is based on Snapdrop. If the current developer hasn’t gone crazy with the fork, you can read the entire source code over a cup of coffee. The server used to just handle discovery/handshake of devices on the same network, with file transfer peer to peer using local addresses.
Edit: Looks like they’ve added transfer over WAN not just local. Privacy discussion here.
- eodur@piefed.socialEnglish3 months
Depends on the scenario, but I’ll use KDE Connect, NextCloud, VaultWarden send, or just go old scp.
- voklen@programming.devEnglish3 months
Syncthing for everything: file transfers, backing up phone photos, synced obsidian vaults, etc.
- Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 months
For phone <-> PC I use localsend. If I do PC to PC, possibly even large amounts of files or large files in general I put them on a network drive specifically intended for that purpose
- stratself@lemdro.idEnglish3 months
Taildrop if you use Tailscale.
<offtopic> It’d be nice if there’s a Syncthing built into Tailscale or some of the mesh VPN solutions. Taildrop is good but it’s not entire directory sync with proper conflict resolution.
Surely I can use Syncthing inside Tailscale but 1. I have to depend on their public discoservers, or 2. I have to host and configure the discoserv myself for every client which is tedious to do </offtopic>
In syncthing you can configure ip of a device and you can turn off discovery. You can add devices by id or scanning qr of the id. I have been using that for years since I didn’t want third party servers in the equation…
- kiol@discuss.onlineEnglish3 months
You can selfhost discovery, no problem. https://docs.syncthing.net/users/stdiscosrv.html
