Have any of you used Tailscale's AirDrop alternative Taildrop?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nix@merv.news⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop/?tab=windows

I just discovered it today and I’m considering setting it up to use instead of LocalSend. Have any of you used TailDrop before? I don’t use TailScale so I’m not really sure I want to set it up just for sending files from my phone to my PC but the share menu options does seem convenient and it would be cool to be able to send any photos etc to my pc when I’m not home and have them their when I arrive sorta like I used pushbullet in the past.

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AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Use Pairdrop instead! Better uptime, with the added bonus of not needing to be on the same network.
  
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  - QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Ohhh, I like this alt.
    
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lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use KDE Connect. Works remotely if you self host a VPN, or isolated over a hotspot/internet sharing.

Nowhere near as convenient as Wi-Fi direct or Airdrop though, but Linux and Windows machines don’t have either

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- histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  personally I run tailscale almost constantly anyway so I paired kde connect over tailscale and that works amazingly
  
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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
LocalSend is already so damn good that I don’t know why I would ever use anything else.

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dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What benefit does this have over AirDrop? This seems like a more limited version of AirDrop with way more steps in-between. I’m asking this as well as someone who has a Synology NAS.

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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not sure why the poster compared to AirDrop because it’s not really similar.
  
  AirDrop works over WiFi and can send to nearby devices (using their radios to connect directly, even in the absence of a WiFi network). It can be used with strangers’ devices if they have theirs set to public mode — which has led to some unpleasant incidents as you can imagine.
  
  Tailscale is primarily a private VPN network that you create only between your personal trusted devices, not strangers’. It works over the internet so it requires a working connection (of any kind). Its primary function is secure communication between your devices, for example you can do things like connect to services on your home server, assist a relative over remote desktop, use your home PC’s connection when you’re on hotel WiFi etc.
  
  Tailscale is usually not something you keep going all the time but you can if you want, there’s no penalty for doing it. It only uses the encrypted tunnel when you connect to another of your Tailscale-enabled devices.
  
  I guess you could stay connected to your Tailscale all the time just so you can drop stuff between your phone and PC for example. It’s not hard to use, you just get their app, enroll it, and then it’s just an on/off switch.
  
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  - dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    But this isn’t just Tailscale. It’s Tailscale and Taildrop. What’s the Taildrop piece?
    
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- nix@merv.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s cross platform and you don’t have to be near the other device if I understand it correctly
  
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Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I just use nearby share.

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I_Comment_On_EVERYTHING@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Have yet to try Taildrop but have a haiku:

With Tailscale Network. Decrease all your latency. Secure Peer to Peer.

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Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah. It’s pretty great I haven’t tried it on windows but from Linux, iPhone, Android and Mac it is pretty great.

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danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No. I use Linux Mint which has its own Airdrop alternative called Warpinator. I can send files and photos between my phone and pc wirelessly. It doesn’t do clipboard though, just files and photos but that’s fine for me.

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- nix@merv.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh I’ve never heard of this. Looks like they have a windows and ios beta too
  
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  - danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes. I’ve only seen it on Linux Mint but it will be open source so you should find it in other distro repos too.
    
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