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by andrewSC 827 days ago
Devil’s advocate: why would I choose this over Syncthing?
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This is really more like AirDrop, where Syncthing is more like DropBox.

Not to say they have no overlap, I use both. LocalSend is nice to quickly send that one picture from my Android to my MacBook

I assume localsend can’t buffer files?

That’s what I’d really like when sending stuff between my devices because my most common use case is I see or think of something work-related when I’m off and don’t want to dig out the company laptop to make note of it, or the other way around see a personal interest or a nerd snipe while at work and want to stash it for off-the-clock.

I usually sling mails between devices, less commonly stash something in iCloud (or similar), but those are pretty noisy and high overhead workflows.

No, that doesn't exist. I'm also not sure if this is what they went to support.

I usually use Firefox Sync to send myself tabs.

So it requires lan network? Can it work over bluetooth? Like Briar https://briarproject.org
it can't, Bluetooth has a very limited datarate anyway
That's why many only use Bluetooth to create an ad-hoc wifi network and do the transfer on that instead.

Airdrop even requires bluetooth.

why not do straight up ad-hoc wi-fi?
It is easy to do Bluetooth discovery between apps on Android/ios. I have not seen the same for wifi.
Completely different use cases, this is for quick transfers of a file or several.
Upon first look this doesn't appear to serve the same purpose as syncthing. It sends files individually instead of keeping a folder synced.
This isn’t really competing with syncthing it doesn’t look like. This is more of a cross-platform AirDrop. Syncthing is more for, well, syncing.