What's everybody's recommendation for accepting large uploaded files from somewhere around the internets?

You can seemingly do this with Google Drive or iCloud Drive, but the person uploading the files must log in to both of those services. That's annoying. I'd rather gatekeep by sending the link to only people that I know, and allow anonymous uploads, and then I can shut down that folder or link later.

I have a Raspberry Pi with a NAS attached where I could install some tool or serve a folder via SMB I suppose, but I'm wary of doing this because it would expose my home network to the internet. It's also subject to my internet connection's speed which for various reasons is not that fast.

It's 2024 and I'm hoping there's some newfangled tool that makes this really easy.

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When a hurricane struck Florida in 2018, Christina's neighborhood lost electricity, cell service and internet. For four weeks her family was cut off from the world, their days dictated by the rising and setting sun. But Christina did have a vast collection of movies on DVD and Blu-ray, and a portable player that could be charged from an emergency generator.

Word got around. The family's library of physical films and books became a kind of currency. Neighbors offered bottled water or jars of peanut butter for access. The 1989 Tom Hanks comedy The 'Burbs was an inexplicably valuable commodity, as were movies that could captivate restless and anxious children.

"I don't think 99% of people in America would ever stop to think, 'What would I do if I woke up tomorrow and all access to digital media disappeared?' But we know," Christina told me. "We've lived it. We'll never give up our collection. Ever. And maybe, one day, you'll be the one to come and barter a loaf of bread for our DVD of Casino."

The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: As more movies vanish from streaming services, cinephiles are rallying to physical media. Can they save a seemingly dying format?

I got into bed and realized from the glow that I had forgotten to put my PC to sleep in the next room.

Instead of getting back out of bed I opened the steam link app on my phone, and pressed the main menu button to get it to turn off the system.

Being able to do Jetsons shit like this sometimes makes me feel a little bit better about tech and the present. Just a bit though.

(Similar feeling: sitting in the cafeteria at my office job back in 2018 or so and realizing that for some reason I can see my own Plex server from the phone app and then being able to remote-stream the anime I had downloaded into the library on my lunch break)