Taildrop is very convenient for sharing files between servers/devices
from 3dmvr@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 11:02
https://lemm.ee/post/53601730

Someone mentioned it in a comment and I genuinely didn’t know what I was setting up, but its basically airdrop but to all your devices/servers so if you have an iphone like me you can goto any photo/file click share, taildrop, then pick the device, its a prettty fast transfer. It shows up in the downloads folder on my pc by default.

I no longer have to upload to icloud files to grab my files, it is very convenient and seems to be free forever for personal use up to 100 devices? I had no idea what I was even setting up til I saw the guide afterwards, I thought it was for monitoring server health, but it’s made sharing files between devices/servers very convenient. (this was likely obvious, just wanted to share with others who didn’t know)

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haverholm@kbin.earth on 25 Jan 11:35 next collapse

For a second there I thought you'd genuinely connected all your devices to a service you didn't know the first thing about 😄

TIL Taildrop is a new(ish?) Tailscale feature that adds airdrop-alike transfer to your tailnet.

Knossos@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 12:50 next collapse

You can also use something called wormhole. Very handy tech.

vext01@lemmy.sdf.org on 26 Jan 08:18 collapse

Also portal which is LAN aware.

coacoamelky@lemm.ee on 25 Jan 15:58 next collapse

I know it’s not the same but I’ve been using syncthing on a Nas to sync files. Don’t really have a tool for file transfers though.

Tangent5280@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 07:32 collapse

But what about when you want to move a few gigs out of your phone to free up space?

coacoamelky@lemm.ee on 29 Jan 12:41 collapse

I’ve been syncing big files to Nas them deleting them from my phone

markstos@lemmy.world on 26 Jan 15:54 next collapse

I use KDE Connect for laptop to desktop transfers.

Keelhaul@sh.itjust.works on 27 Jan 06:02 collapse

I use snapdrop/pairdrop for quick and easy file transfers, but I found transfers to be quite slow, so this may be an alternative for larger files.