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?
Syncthing for everything: file transfers, backing up phone photos, synced obsidian vaults, etc.
Localsend
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
Copyparty. Or any other web file server.
I use ghost commander on my phone to access my NAS on my home network.
Oh, I remember a guy I met on a lanparty using it for everything
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
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KDE Connect and SyncThing
I know it’s not a dedicated (or that good of a) solution but I just upload stuff to a private room on my Matrix server.
Samba drive + vpn tunnel. If I’m working on my PC and want to do something with my phone: plainapp
SMB share ( Android <-> Windows/Steam Machine
Nextcloud
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
KDE Connect can do all three of these.
I’m aware, but some devices I use regularly like an iPhone, work computer, etc, are limited in their capacity to run it.
KDE Connect
LocalSend on both devices is something I’ve used
I also like LocalSend. Not quite as automagical as airdrop but it’s cross platform
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.
magic wormhole
