NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

the first line goes in Cohost embeds

🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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email: contact at breadthcharge dot net

I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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wxcafe
@wxcafe

idk, but if you're into 90s tech you can get a lightning to USB host adapter and then plug a zip drive into that, and now you can exchange your files just as fast as you would with bluetooth file transfer :)


pendell
@pendell

One of the things I did with my SuperDisk drive after getting it was put an mp3 album on it and play the whole thing by plugging it into my blu-ray player. It was surreal.


micolithe
@micolithe

I have an android app that spins up an FTP server on my phone so I can wirelessly move albums i download off of soulseek to my micro sd card without having to turn off my phone and remove the little fiddly sim/sd card caddy. (also transferring over USB kept disconnecting and I was getting really angry and needed a better solution)

I also bound my phone's MAC address to a static IP in my router's settings so that I can just save the connection in filezilla

I'm out here living in the year 3023.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

I highly recommend playing with FTP and intranet static IP routing if you want to learn things.

HOWEVER

in case people haven't discovered them yet:

SyncThing sorta Just Works these days. I respect FTP but if others want to replicate this, SyncThing is the way to go. Assign a folder to share, connect your devices via QR code, tell each device where to save that folder, boom, done. I use it instead of dropbox.

Combine it with Tailscale. You can think of tailscale like... Hamachi, if you're ancient enough to remember that. It's, for the sake of discussion, as if everything connected was on a LAN, just over the internet. Not a netflix-in-other-countries scheme.

Then you don't need static internal IPs -- you just type in the hostname of your device and, as if by magic, tailscale connects as long as the tailscale app is running in the background. Internal or external network, it doesn't care. Your phone can go fileserver/webinterface.html:5481 or whatever while hiking and it Just Works.

(With iOS you have to physically start the app when you want to do things with it, because it won't stay up forever.)

But anyway, if you're less technical, both of those are solutions that mostly Just Work, unless you want to tinker with them, and then there's a lot of tinkering that can be done.

(syncthing on ios doesn't work, but IIRC mobeus sync has support)


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in reply to @wxcafe's post:

I hate this so much, I like being able to give photos to people right as I take them but I always have to ask "do you have an iPhone?" "yes" "sorry can't give you the photos now (this means it will never happen)"