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Devil’s advocate: why would I choose this over Syncthing?

earthling8118 3y ago
Upon first look this doesn't appear to serve the same purpose as syncthing. It sends files individually instead of keeping a folder synced.
lknuth 3y ago
This is really more like AirDrop, where Syncthing is more like DropBox. Not to say they have no overlap, I use both. LocalSend is nice to quickly send that one picture from my Android to my MacBook
- factormeta 3y ago
  So it requires lan network? Can it work over bluetooth? Like Briar https://briarproject.org https://briarproject.org
  - LittleFreak 3y ago
    it can't, Bluetooth has a very limited datarate anyway
    - tjoff 3y ago
      That's why many only use Bluetooth to create an ad-hoc wifi network and do the transfer on that instead. Airdrop even requires bluetooth.
      - fddrdplktrew 3y ago
        why not do straight up ad-hoc wi-fi?
        pastage 3y ago
        It is easy to do Bluetooth discovery between apps on Android/ios. I have not seen the same for wifi.
        fddrdplktrew 3y ago
        that's because Google actively won't implement it... not sure why but there was issues with "thousands" of comments requesting it (because it is part of WiFi standard). Not sure about Apple. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 (won't fix, obsolete, according to these mofos) https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png (who the fuck knows how many more comments it would have got if they didn't block commenting) It was implemented once on Cyanogenmod thought... A lot of the posts about this have been de-indexed from Google Search too.
- masklinn 3y ago
  I assume localsend can’t buffer files? That’s what I’d really like when sending stuff between my devices because my most common use case is I see or think of something work-related when I’m off and don’t want to dig out the company laptop to make note of it, or the other way around see a personal interest or a nerd snipe while at work and want to stash it for off-the-clock. I usually sling mails between devices, less commonly stash something in iCloud (or similar), but those are pretty noisy and high overhead workflows.
  - lknuth 3y ago
    No, that doesn't exist. I'm also not sure if this is what they went to support. I usually use Firefox Sync to send myself tabs.
atlas_hugged 3y ago
This isn’t really competing with syncthing it doesn’t look like. This is more of a cross-platform AirDrop. Syncthing is more for, well, syncing.
Saris 3y ago
Completely different use cases, this is for quick transfers of a file or several.

Upon first look this doesn't appear to serve the same purpose as syncthing. It sends files individually instead of keeping a folder synced.

lknuth 3y ago

This is really more like AirDrop, where Syncthing is more like DropBox. Not to say they have no overlap, I use both. LocalSend is nice to quickly send that one picture from my Android to my MacBook

factormeta 3y ago
So it requires lan network? Can it work over bluetooth? Like Briar https://briarproject.org https://briarproject.org
- LittleFreak 3y ago
  it can't, Bluetooth has a very limited datarate anyway
  - tjoff 3y ago
    That's why many only use Bluetooth to create an ad-hoc wifi network and do the transfer on that instead. Airdrop even requires bluetooth.
    - fddrdplktrew 3y ago
      why not do straight up ad-hoc wi-fi?
      - pastage 3y ago
        It is easy to do Bluetooth discovery between apps on Android/ios. I have not seen the same for wifi.
        fddrdplktrew 3y ago
        that's because Google actively won't implement it... not sure why but there was issues with "thousands" of comments requesting it (because it is part of WiFi standard). Not sure about Apple. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 (won't fix, obsolete, according to these mofos) https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png (who the fuck knows how many more comments it would have got if they didn't block commenting) It was implemented once on Cyanogenmod thought... A lot of the posts about this have been de-indexed from Google Search too.
masklinn 3y ago
I assume localsend can’t buffer files? That’s what I’d really like when sending stuff between my devices because my most common use case is I see or think of something work-related when I’m off and don’t want to dig out the company laptop to make note of it, or the other way around see a personal interest or a nerd snipe while at work and want to stash it for off-the-clock. I usually sling mails between devices, less commonly stash something in iCloud (or similar), but those are pretty noisy and high overhead workflows.
- lknuth 3y ago
  No, that doesn't exist. I'm also not sure if this is what they went to support. I usually use Firefox Sync to send myself tabs.

atlas_hugged 3y ago

This isn’t really competing with syncthing it doesn’t look like. This is more of a cross-platform AirDrop. Syncthing is more for, well, syncing.

Saris 3y ago

Completely different use cases, this is for quick transfers of a file or several.