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I hate shareit. It's full of ads and nonsense, but it's much faster than any other alternative?

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[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] ErenOnizuka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago

+1 for KDE Connect

[–] Brunette6256@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wormhole or croc

[–] claim_arguably 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I use KDE connect for connecting my PC, but I'm talking about sharing big files with friends using android.

[–] 0xd34d@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

KDE connect can connect to another android device that is also running it and on the same network.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Not sure if its the case for you, but I also experienced local send being slow. I turned off encryption and it was 10x faster. Not sure if that helps.

[–] Ditti@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If we're talking about sharing stuff between Android devices, then what about Quick Share?

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ditti@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough, I hadn't considered that as OP hadn't stated whether they were using Play Services. But point taken.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

No worries, and no neg either. This is where this timeline sucks. Quick Share is a great upgrade to the standard Bluetooth file sharing that existed for 20+ years as it adds in WiFi, but corps are all so walled-garden-metadata-stalking vampires. These companies are so stupid. Conflict too, in that sharing files easily can "make money" for them, but they'd rather fight than have standards.

I miss standards. Plugging a POTS jack in a wall and getting a dial tone was so simple. Now, everything, even "cable TV", is JSON shitting around the Internet, but heaven forbid it's the same JSON.

[–] claim_arguably 1 points 4 days ago

Can't select some folders with it.