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What program do you recommend to share files over WiFi between your PC and phone? (lemmy.world)
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If possible a FOSS one, I use a kinda shady one right now but it works (Airdroid)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/localsend/localsend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://snapdrop.net

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just found a good command line one.

https://github.com/schollz/croc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

syncthing is pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Localsend works great for cross platform transfers (and works over local network, without internet)

android nearby share is great now that you can send files to and from windows (there's even a receiver only program for mac now)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I believe KDE connect does this in a pretty seamless way. I normally just put the file into a "scratch" folder in my nextcloud instance - but KDE connect would probably be better from a UX perspective