Randall Munroe shows us how it's done:
Every time you email a file to yourself so you can pull it up on your friend's laptop, Tim Berners-Lee sheds a single tear.
No shout out for my boi, LocalSend?
The amount of times sending myself an email is still the quickest thing is insane. Sure I could try to use notion or keep to send myself some random string of text but am I logged in on my desktop? Idk. Just use email.
Also there are so many things like air drop, nfc, etc, but so many of them are so specific to certain devices. Maybe one day we'll figure this out lol
IR data connection.
Print out on paper & scan it into the computer.
Copy the data into the computer in binary with an electron gun directly to SSD.
Recreate the data from scratch.
Install desktop os onto your phone & use it as your main rig to eliminate the need to transfer data in the first place.
Use an USB cable to connect the phone to a floppy drive & copy the data to floppy discs. And enjoy the asmr sounds as you do so.
Bluetooth if all else fails, but using a2dp dial-up frequencies.
Accept that there is no convenient way to transfer data & just live without it.
https://github.com/localsend/localsend
I used localsend on desktop, laptop and my phones to sync stuffs between OSes and phones. What I likes is that it support multiplatform out of the box and works flawlessly between Windows, Android and Linux distros (tried both on Ubuntu, and LM without problem). It's just SHAREit without any stupid weird stuffs on it.
Syncthing ftw. As soon as I plug my phone into a charger, it starts syncing everything to my NAS. Even if it's not charging, I can override the rule and force it to sync.
One thing that really got me while working on computers and networking right as LAN networks became a thing in the late 90s and early 2K years was.... I'm connected to this switch, and so are they. Why do I need to burn a CD/use an external hard drive (later a flash drive), to move data?
Took me a while to figure out SMB/cifs, and when I did .... Game changer. Since then I've also learned all I can about storage, networking and file sharing. Most of my USB drives sit on my desk and don't get touched. I couldn't tell you what's on most of them. I've picked up a few thinking that I'll use it, but the most useful thing I've done with flash drives is to move data between computers when upgrading other people's computers. For me, I just make sure everything is backed up/synced to my local NAS, wipe the system and reinstall without a care in the world.
I use KDE connect...
But my grandfather does the ol reliable method for image upload, which is:
- emails it to himself
- prints the email off
- scans the printout into his computer again
- uploads image to
faceboomFacebook
I typo'd Facebook originally but thay was too good to get rid of so I just strikethrough'd it
or just plug the phone into the computer?
and use either adb pull or mtp (adb is more reliable from my experience)KDE Connect and Syncthing do the trick for most stuff. For all else, all hail the USB C M.2 NVME enclosure.
Kde Connect
Open source. Works about as good as AirDrop when that isn't available.
SMB has entered the chat
In Android just selectively enable wireless ADB debugging and then use ADB Explorer. Easier than plugging the phone in, wireless, and allows access to all folders on the device (including /Android/data/* which is blocked from being accessed using on-device file explorers). Turn it off when you're done. Boom, wireless data transfer to and from an Android device at way faster than cabled SMB speeds.
Localsend ;)
Localsend!
LocalSend does it best
Always have a tiny USB drive on my key chain. The digital space is so huge nowadays and they cost almost nothing.
Mtp is so unstable in my experience that I try to use anything else available
I usually just use Bluetooth cuz I'm only transferring an image or two over. But if it's something big, I just use USB transfer because when the phone is plugged into the computer, it appears as an external drive.
Using this double sided boy seems like it would be putting a lot of weight on the USB port... 🤔
I use the Signal "Note to self" contact for smaller files, or SMB if i have to transfer large amounts - no usb-sticks needed.
for other people i normally upload either to https://send.vis.ee if it's a one time thing, to https://catbox.moe if i suspect that i have to share it more often over time or https://litterbox.catbox.moe/ for 3 day availability.
There is a little "most advanced transfer solutions" in your Spyware
Run it locally yourself to make it even easier.
I use WebDAV because my phones use that for all services which keeps everything on my own servers. Contacts, calendar, files, etc. Both Android and iPhone can be set up this way.
I pick one device-to-device option and it won’t load.
I pick another and it transfers at the speed of EDGE.
I end up just emailing the file to myself because my email is synced across all devices and it takes two minutes.
Attach it to a draft email. Log in on the other thing, go to drafts, download your file, delete draft.
I use syncthing for regular syncing of files and warpinator for single files.
My charger cable that's all I want.
Localsend
Local send.
You're welcome
I just put it on an SD card and pop it in my phone.
Sftp
SMB/NFS
I use a private room in my Matrix instance
I used to go to a trade school where we were learning very basic app development
This was such a good tool to test it on my phone
Seafile. It's already on my phone when I want it there.
never underestimate the data transfer speed of a truckload of hard drives
Hate on Google and Microsoft all you want but their cloud services are pretty convenient.
Back in the day I had to use CD-ROM to move files around
Nah. Selfhosted Nextcloud is far more convenient for me.
No one mentioned wormhole yet, so I'm gonna.
For Shure my 1pb school nextdrive...
Pairdrop, send over wifi
FX File Explorer + local servers = check and mate. If I need access to it immediately from a machine, put it on my /home/drive/desktop folder and it will sync to my computers in a few seconds, via synology drive. This also works over the internet, so I can move the files at home, leave, and power up my laptop to see them available, seamlessly.
I have a second server running Debian that does the first half, but not the syncing part. It's more for docker stuff, not personal files.
I'm disabled too, so the less I have to physically move around, the better. Having a server to just dump stuff on and access from anywhere is amazing.
old iphone: hey guise
Syncthing if I have to sync regularly, KDE connect from phone to PC and magic-wormhole if I want to send something to a friend.
Run a ssh server on the phone and
rsyncstuff over.Warpinator
I use a USB cable with file transfer. I also do phone file management like this because it's easier
Didn't want to install something to move stuff of my laptop yesterday. Took a USB which has both a boot partition and a data partition, which worked on my W10 computer and moved it to the W11 laptop and it wouldn't recognize it...
Long story short, I had to manual set the partition id for the data part using diskpart for the data partition to be recognized. But that was a lot more effort than expected to move a few files over.
Depends on your workflow. I'm usually in google drive anyways. And the file is usually there anyways. So it's just a few clicks away.
I just access one of my many network shares with Root Explorer.
I used some app that was basically a gui for ssh/scp. Works wonders.
warpinator cos it came preinstalled in my distro
Pairdrop/snapdrop is the answer, it's foss as well
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rsyncorscp, depending on mood. If there's a non-*nix host involved, maybe SMB or NFS but that's on the device owner.I made a dump folder on sync thing. When I want to share a file or 12, move it the dump folder and presto - the files are moved.
But yes, a USB drive is still very good for transfer, especially lots of files to other people.
If it isn't big I just message it to my partner, download it, the delete the message
Self-Hosted Pairdrop is perfection for me
