I like LocalSend, much easier than KDEConnect, and also on F-Droid. But I have to confess that I usually send photos via Signal on mobile to myself and then open Signal app on the desktop to download it.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
72 points (92.9% liked)
Technology
73876 readers
3409 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I even do that with links because syncing tabs between Firefox instances is so unreliable for me.
I'd use pairdrop over this so I don't need to install it on all my devices.
i prefer pairdrop specifically because there's no install.
however, looks like local send (after install) might work offline as long as they local network is up.
I stopped using pairdrop/snapdrop because it doesn't work on native wayland chrome/chromium due to webrtc.
Another reason to use Firefox?
It's about webrtc, which the support on Firefox is even more poor.
Seem to be quite a few of these types of apps, I've been using landrop recently, how does this one compare?
I have not used Landrop but looking at it from the outside, Landrop is version 0.4 and has received no development for 3 years now. LocalSend is past 1.0 and still in active development. I'd rather use LocalSend then instead of something abandoned before it was deemed complete.
I was using landrop before. Works fine but the GUI was just a bit off, not intuitive enough. That's Localsend's biggest improvement IMO.
Thanks, this tends to be functionality I dont need that often but when I do it's frustratingly difficult finding something that doesnt feel like it's going to need me to sign over my soul so it's good to know about other open source solutions.
I kid you not, I was actually looking for a solution like that yesterday! hopefully it'll handle a few tens of gigabytes between my two Linux laptops.
Use Syncthing.
Works a breeze, does require an install on the devices, but man it just works.
You also can send the files between a laptop and a phone just by connecting to the phone hotspot. (At least with Linux)