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Oh my goodness, the use cases are so… badly conceived: > If a friend sends you a picture on your phone and you need to email it from your laptop, the file is j
by dhosek 5mo ago
Oh my goodness, the use cases are so… badly conceived:
> If a friend sends you a picture on your phone and you need to email it from your laptop, the file is just there — no need to email it to yourself.
So are there really people who will email a photo to themselves from their phone to… send the photo in an email?
Interesting to note that there is no mention of processor or operating system in that post. I’m guessing that it’s Android in a laptop form factor which I suppose might be something that some people would want, but I’m not one of them.
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo agoThey should have just said "USE it on your laptop", not email it. I all the time use my phone as a camera (esp. for coin photography) than e-mail the photos to myself as the most convenient way to get them on my desktop where I can edit them with GIMP etc.
- unholiness 5mo agoI just open photos.google.com and grab them. No need to fiddle on my phone. When on wifi, the photo backup upload starts immediately. If it doesn't (possibly due to your settings, this used to be my issue) you can manually open the photos app and tap the backup now button.
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo agoI'm not sure if that's an option for me, since I'm not using the regular camera app - I'm using Halide which is better suited to macro (coin) photography. Google Drive would be another option to transfer, but would be more work (about same to "share" as email, but less convenient to access on desktop). The e-mail way is actually quite convenient since on the desktop you can just download all the photos you sent in one go - they appear as a zip file that you can then just extract to your working directory, rather than having to save one at a time.
- projektfu 5mo agoIt will work if you ask Photos to back up halide's files.
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo agoI just found a free app that makes it even easier: LocalSend You install this on your phone (iphone or android), as well as on your computer (linux, windows or mac), then you can send files directly between any of these as long a they are on the same local network. You just select your photos, click on "share", then select LocalSend and it'll show you the list of destinations to choose from (wherever you are currently running LocalSend), click on one and you're done! On the receiving side you can select the directory where files will be transferred to, and if you set "Quick Save" option to "Favorites" then you can make your phone a favorite to avoid being prompted whether you want to accept each file it is sending. So, it's literally just: select photos, share->LocalSend, click on destination
- olsondv 5mo agoIt’s a poor example. Recently, I did have to email myself photos taken with my phone to access them on my laptop. Would be nice if they were automatically synced. It’s work phone and laptop so I could have gone through OneDrive or Box but just as inconvenient as email.
- array_key_first 5mo agoGetting files on and off of a phone is shockingly hard. Shockingly. It's even worse on an iPhone, if you don't have a mac. To get my photos from my iPhone to my PC, I had to first upload them to iCloud and then download them again. My phone and computer are, like, a foot away from each other but I had to send the photos across the country to some server and back just to look at them.
- bsimpson 5mo agoMy only real use of Google Keep is as a cross-device clipboard.
- xp84 5mo agoOh, I use use AirDrop to myself for this. Yes, given my photo library syncs to iCloud, just opening Photos seems like it makes sense on a fast WAN which I sort-of do have, but of course, iCloud syncs only happen when the device decides the mood is just right, and can't be triggered manually, because I guess that would just be 'clutter' in the UI.
- Marsymars 5mo agoWhat drives me absolutely nuts about AirDrop is that it's only device-to-device even if devices are on the same WAN. My wife and I have home offices at opposite sides of the house with hardwired desktops and Wi-fi APs, but we can't AirDrop to each other as we're out of range for it.
- koziserek 5mo agothere's an equivalent functionality in Tailscale clients
- mavamaarten 5mo agoI'm super techy but I admit that I just use Signal to send me a "Note to self" whenever I need a file from my phone on my computer quickly. For images I just use immich, but texting myself is honestly the quickest way for files because the experience is indeed terrible.
- dmix 5mo agoThese are usually targeted at kids and newbies. My mom would 100% appreciate that feature for photos and pdfs. She still struggles with files on Windows and managing files are even less clear on chromebook.
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- famouswaffles 5mo agoYeah I and i suspect a lot of others email myself little files all the time because surprisingly that's the most convenient way to get those files quickly from phone to laptop.
- zeafoamrun 5mo agoI feel like very much not the target market for this. Tokyo Vintage Shopping Trip? LOL I got mad when I bought a Chromebook thinking it was a cheap laptop I could install any OS on only to find it was boatloader locked and the model I bought hadnt been cracked yet. Say nothing of all of Google's recent practices with Android. This whole thing just sounds like the plague.
- overgard 5mo agoI do that all the time with my iPhone and my windows machine, sadly. Still not a particularly compelling feature, just speaks to how sad our modern ecosystem is.