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linuxmint / warpinator

warpinator

Share files across the LAN

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Share files across the LAN

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Observed mentions: 2021-05-24 20:52:59 UTC to 2024-08-17 20:52:35 UTC.

01232021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
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What Hacker News says

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j1elo·Oct 19, 2023
I don't know. After discovering PairDrop too, thanks to comments here, I've been testing it out to see if it could replace Warpinator [1] as a means to send files & directories between my PC and my Android phone when I'm at home. First impression has been quite disappointing... I installed the PWA to my phone's home screen. Then opened up and paired with my PC as trusted device. Tried to send a PDF file from PC to phone, a dialog shows up with File Received. PC has sent: file.pdf. Close/Download. Upon clicking Download, Firefox (which is configured in Android as the default web browser) opens up, on the Homepage tab. Nothing else happens, and the file isn't downloaded. So I'm left pretty much confused about what should have happened vs. what did actually happen. (EDIT: Turns out installing the PWA from Firefox doesn't work as well as doin
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g the same from Chrome. The latter does actually integrate it as a real Android app, and it then works as expected. The Firefox integration of PWAs with Android is a bit lacking, it seems.) Good thing about Warpinator (and something I use a lot) is that you can enable accepting files without confirmation, and then you can drag & drop a whole folder to have it appear on the other device as-is. Something extremely useful but that I doubt web apps can achieve. [1]: https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator
In Localsend: Open-Source Airdrop Alternative

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