Tailscale is awesome, so damn recommended. Taildrop (AirDrop for everything, included in Tailscale) is especially recommended, it makes it so damn easy to send files between all your devices.
It's the first I hear of this. I wonder if there's any big advantage of this for someone who is already using syncthing for the same purpose? Biggest thing I could hope for is that it's faster. But I generally don't keep Tailscale running on mobile because I don't need it to and don't like the persistent notification.
Sync, continuous backup and transfer are all quite different use-cases.
Most backup/sync products are designed to work in the background and often require upload before download. I don’t know if syncthing does streaming syncs though.
Another difference is transfers can easily be untrusted, as in sender and receiver don’t need access to each others file systems. Take magic wormhole (or email attachments for that matter) as an example.
Taildrop is somewhere in between – I think you have to be on same tail net, but no need for awareness of the other device’s file system.
It's the first I hear of this. I wonder if there's any big advantage of this for someone who is already using syncthing for the same purpose? Biggest thing I could hope for is that it's faster. But I generally don't keep Tailscale running on mobile because I don't need it to and don't like the persistent notification.