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  • Re: Air Drop --> Localsend?

    From paulie420@21:2/150 to AKAcastor on Sat Jun 8 10:27:00 2024
    I'm an apple fan, so for me I just use "Air Drop". :)

    I should probably be using Air Drop more, I use an iPhone and am on a Macbook right now. Half the time I'm on a Windows or Linux machine though.
    I use Dropbox because it was easy and I have some folders shared with me from other people, and a NAS at home.

    I just so happened to come across this post and wanted to share a neat tool - I also use Air Drop... for my Apple devices. Yea - thats the holdup, right; well theres a really nice tool available on Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android AND Linux that you have to checkout;

    LocalSend
    https://localsend.org/

    It just works - for text, files and media. Very useful and, IMO, better than Air Drop as you can use it on any device.



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  • From AKAcastor@21:1/162 to Paulie420 on Sat Jun 8 12:38:34 2024
    LocalSend
    https://localsend.org/

    It just works - for text, files and media. Very useful
    and, IMO, better than Air Drop as you can use it on any device.

    That sounds just about perfect for the task! I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for bringing it up.

    If anyone else is slightly annoyed, like I am, by the slick modern website design that has incredibly little information about what it IS, the Github link at the bottom of the localsend.org page has a little bit more info in the README. (also there's information about building this open source project yourself)

    Cross platform, MIT license, it sounds pretty ideal!


    Chris/akacastor

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to AKAcastor on Sat Jun 8 15:21:16 2024
    If anyone else is slightly annoyed, like I am, by the slick modern
    website design that has incredibly little information about what it IS, the Github link at the bottom of the localsend.org page has a little bit more info in the README. (also there's information about building this open source project yourself)

    I think they're going for those Air Drop people and tried hard to be 'Apple' - lol. I DIDN'T see the Github and am stoked to go checkout the code and read about it!! w00t - I got something here, too!



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  • From deon@21:2/116 to paulie420 on Sun Jun 9 09:21:06 2024
    Re: Re: Air Drop --> Localsend?
    By: paulie420 to AKAcastor on Sat Jun 08 2024 10:27 am

    Howdy,

    I just so happened to come across this post and wanted to share a neat tool - I also use Air Drop... for my Apple devices. Yea - thats the holdup, right; well theres a really nice tool available on Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android AND Linux that you have to checkout;

    LocalSend
    https://localsend.org/

    Nice find. Just had a look.

    As much as I use airdrop, it sometimes just wont find the device you want to send stuff too... This looks like it might be a better option.


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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to deon on Sat Jun 8 20:18:52 2024
    https://localsend.org/

    Nice find. Just had a look.
    As much as I use airdrop, it sometimes just wont find the device you
    want to send stuff too... This looks like it might be a better option.

    So this is also SOMETIMES an issue w/ localsend; however, 90% of the time it just works as advertised and on all the platforms that I use, so yea - I use it often.



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