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I like croc, wormhole, snapdrop and whatever else there is I just don't get that there is no universal convenient standard for transferring files from one devic
by Zetobal 3y ago
I like croc, wormhole, snapdrop and whatever else there is I just don't get that there is no universal convenient standard for transferring files from one device to another over a wired/wireless connection. Mindboggling that most people use cloud hosting or email to transfer a file from one device to another when they are just 30cm from each other.
- Gabrys1 3y agoUsed to be "put it on a USB stick". Now no-one carries those so email/google drive it is :-) When sharing files between devices I own (including my mobile phones) I attach them to a draft email to myself, then get them from the drafts on the other device.
- minhmeoke 3y agoThe problem with email attachments is that it only supports files up to around 25MB, and if you have a slow uplink to the cloud, it could take a while. A friend wrote a faster and more sophisticated version of `python -m http.server 8000` in rust which also supports uploads, you can read about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347 File transfers are over the local network, and therefore should be very fast.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoSecurity is always the reason we can't have nice things
- minhmeoke 3y agoJust start the server using: python -m http.server 8000 to share a directory over a local network. Then you can point a web browser on another device to port 8000 of the server's IP address to download files. However, this can be slow for larger files. A friend wrote a faster and more sophisticated version of `python -m http.server 8000` in rust which also supports uploads, you can read about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628347