Ada Worcester 🏳️⚧️you know something? while there is no technical reason file sharing between two devices should be hard, it is. the UX is, like, the only problem there, but it is a pretty big one. i can't help but feel like that should be fixed.
(and of course recommendations that involve a NAS or other human-managed server are... missing the point. sure, _i_ can do that, but i am a Nerd. and this only helps if i want to share files with A Fellow Nerd.)
SlightlyCyberpunk@pikhq I've gone back to scp for everything. Literally even putting new music on my phone via scp. I only ever need to learn one command, it works everywhere, and it hasn't changed in decades. THAT is simple! Fuck this GUI crap that you have to re-learn every year when someone in the marketing department gets a new idea.
To share with *other people* though?
Uhh...I dunno, I just scp it to my web server usually... :)
@pikhq Seriously though, how hard would it be to slap a GUI wrapper on scp? Pop up a QR code that'll provide your hostname, a temporary key/password, and a temporary download directory. Universal support pretty much instantly. Easy(ish) to punch it in manually on devices that don't have the app. But the corporations that make this shit don't want that, they want a control mechanism they can use to lock you into their prison system...
mathew@mathew @pikhq My scp manpage tells me: "Since OpenSSH 9.0, scp has used the SFTP protocol for transfers by default." so I think that means I'm already using the solution suggested by this post?
Also shit they're still making GUIs that can read formats that were obsolete in the 90s man, that's no obstacle :)
Licho
Irenes (many)@pikhq yes, absolutely. at the risk of stating the obvious, mobile OS vendors have no interest in teaching people to use files because files are less useful for selling cloud services than the amorphous sense it's on there somewhere is, so.... :(
@ireneista yeah, that alone is a Problem. these days there kinda sorta exists notions of files in mobile OS UIs, but those _clearly_ exist as bones thrown to power users and professionals, not something they want to be a primary part of the OS and how you interact with it.
Lunaphied
Max 🏳️⚧️ 🍉 🪬 🔯 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻@pikhq hardware determines what the machine can do, software determines what it can't 🤣