LocalSend: Share files to nearby devices
localsend.org
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform file sharing tool that allows you to share files to nearby devices.

If you want a easy, reliable and cross-platform way to share files between computers, phones, etc, it may be of your interest.

    • Bloody Harry@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      Answering the question you meant to ask, blueray is a physica… just kidding.

      LocalSend is basically like bluetooth file sharing over WiFi. Bluetooth, especially the fallback 2.0 is notoriously slow and short ranged. The situation got better with BLE, 5.0 and Long Range. Still, both devices need to speak BT. Ap*le’s iOS is well known to ignore BT file sharing capabilities while implementing own proprietary solutions. On desktop, the situation is still bad. I once tried to send a file between two Windows machines via BT, and it was a horrible user experience. LocalSend (and similar) fix this by implementing cross platform apps and using readily available API’s to share files with few clicks and reasonably high speed between a plethora of devices. I guess, if you don’t have the aforementioned problems, you won’t need LocalSend et al.

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Using kde-connect for that, works really nicely cross platform.

    Also inb4 “Discord community server - no thanks” :D

    • Goku@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I love KDE connect have been using it for years.

      Only issue is recently I tried it on my raspberry pi and some features don’t work. Specifically I can’t get clipboard sharing or remote input to work on my raspberry pi.

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been using this for a long time now, and it’s godsend.
    Sending files between iOS, Android, Windows, Linux and other devices is great!

  • Bloody Harry@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Really great software. Works like a charm most of the time, the apps are quite okay, sends files locally. The first low-barrier solution to share stuff between wildly different devices since e-mail.