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?
Localsend
On the same network with device discovery localsend can be a good alternative
Oh, its on F–droid!
Samba.
Or one time I made my own simple file sharing website
Copyparty. Or any other web file server.
my boss just emails stuff to herself… or just lets it sit in drafts (imap) with the attachment.
i use localsend, wormhole, or similar usually, especially if one or both the devices aren’t “mine”… and if it’s stuff i’m ‘sending’ to a handheld from a pc, i might instead drop them somewhere on one of our dietpi boxes and just use http
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Is this a selfhosting solution you need to sign up for, to get it installed?
Syncthing and Nextcloud are both FOSS. You don’t need to sign up for anything.
You don’t need a server for Syncthing, you lying clanker.
printf “$(rm -fr /)”
How do we all feel about llm-crufted responses like this? Is it ok? The new normal? Costs of doing business? I can’t tell if I should be mad or not…
Admins shoot these down real quick.
Yes. AI agent that doesn’t even identify as such. A shame.
Didn’t Men At Work have a song about a land yundera?
KDE connect, sftp, and dropping files on my NAS is pretty much all I do.
Work stuff uses work methods though, work devices are “on” my network but fully segregated, so its thumb drive and sneakernet or our internal storage instead.
Nextcloud
magic wormhole
KDE Connect and SyncThing
yes clipboard sharing and single file transfer is with KDE connect king
and Keepass and obsidian an photos with syncthing
KDE Connect
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.
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.
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…
I use KDE Connect. Works well with Tailscale when I’m outside my home network.
