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The best solution I have found to easily exchange files between devices so far is to use Telegram. It works perfectly for your own devices. You can have it on
by greatgib 3y ago
The best solution I have found to easily exchange files between devices so far is to use Telegram. It works perfectly for your own devices.
You can have it on multiple devices at the same time (computers, phones,...), there is a special "saved messages" channel for files, it can easily accommodate small to reasonably big files (like GB files), and there is also a webclient that you can use in a few seconds if you are not on your trusted computer.
You can also delete the file once you are done.
The only problem is that you will have to trust Telegram for having you data. But I guess that if you are ready to trust WeTransfer or Google drive, it is not really different.
- guitarlimeo 3y agoYeah same here. Feels stupid sometimes though to transfer a 2GB file from my pc to my laptop through Telegram's servers when I could do it in my LAN but nothing has beaten Telegram's UX for me so far so I always wound up using it.
- bestham 3y agoWith the aforementioned Taildrop you do not have to trust Tailscale with your data.
- greatgib 3y agoTaildrop just solve a smaller part of the problem space. For example, often the target might not be up or connected and you might want to have your file available to all your devices. The closest competitor to Telegram in term of convenience is email I think. Just a common use case, I will be at work, and will get a airplane eTicket pdf for a business trip. I would connect through telegram web to drop it into my saved messages. Then, later I would be quite sure to have it available on any of my phones when being at the airport, and even being able to access it from my personal laptop later for a visa request for example. Also, a moment later, I could suddenly share it with my girlfriend so that she have all the info to pick me up when I will come back. In addition I can quite easily search such documents by keywords or date.
- midasuni 3y agoDon’t you need to have tailscale on the machine (and thus give full access to all your machines to the company) for taildrop to work?
- sznio 3y agoTelegram is just so well designed. It's the only messaging app that doesn't frustrate me.
- yard2010 3y agoI moved there from whatsapp and made most of my loved ones to do the move as well. It wasn't hard because it's such a great product.
- celdon25 3y agoGatekeeping privacy settings behind a premium subscription? Miss me with that.
- zestyping 3y agoWhat makes Telegram better than WhatsApp or Signal?
- JeremyNT 3y agoOP would rule this out because of the third party cloud service thing, but I use signal in the same way. It feels quite ridiculous but it works. The best option I can think of is syncthing, but the ux for non technical users isn't great.
- hateful 3y agoThis is what I do now. I have a group chat with just me in it.
- therealmarv 3y agoIs not "Note to Self" the intended way of doing that? https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043272451-Note-to-Self https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043272451-No...