Comment on Strategies and advice for transitioning out of Apple's ecosystem of devices?

• LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It depends what you want from this.

  • LocalSend shines with single files that you specifically select.
  • Syncthing is great for zero-hassle synchronisation of multiple files and even entire folders.

  Personally, I prefer the latter because it’s much more powerful. Also, I’ve experienced issues with LocalSend and VPN usage.

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• Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is such bad advice. If you tell people that, people expect it too work like AirDrop, which it doesn’t.

  LocalSend is great, but it is much more limited than AirDrop. As the name suggest, it only works if people are in the same network. If you’re in your home network, and both devices are yours, that’s probably fair enough, but that isn’t the point or (only) use case of AirDrop.

  Also if you’re installing it on a Linux machine which happens to have a firewall enabled by default, you will have to open the correct ports for it to to work out even just see the other devices.

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