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1. nullify88 · 1789709761 · focus · HN ↗

   I've used a bunch of similar tooling like airdrop and localsend. I don't have alot faith in them a little since they usually choke on large files or many files. I'm still looking for something that works well in those cases without resorting to a cable / MTP which isn't fantastic either.

   1. mhitza · 1789714478 · focus · HN ↗

      I can't report on percentage improvement, but after a long time localsend recently pushed out a version that claims to be much better (to be read as faster) for the transfer of large/many files.

      For a long time the issue was blocked because of an upstream library, maybe LLMs finally unblocked the devs to push the fixes through.

   2. smusamashah · 1789724726 · focus · HN ↗

      Webwormhole.io should work theoretically on file of any size because it does not keep the file being downloaded in memory/cache first. It downloads as a file as soon as it starts.

      In practice, I have used syncthing to transfer many giga bytes data from one work computer to other because syncthing uses lot more discovery protocols etc to work around restrictions.

   3. hobo123 · 1789727958 · focus · HN ↗

      Once I tried Airdrop between Macbooks it was very flaky. Haven't had any problems with localsend so far (Windows, Linux, Android).

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