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EvolvedTurtle , in Welcome, visitor.

That would suck if you were filling out any documents out of town

“I swear that’s the real name of my town I live in humansvile”

FlyingSquid OP ,
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The town I grew up in had both “That Road” and “Lois Lane” and I’m glad I didn’t live on either.

jaybone ,

123 Fake Street

JackbyDev , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

The amount of times sending myself an email is still the quickest thing is insane. Sure I could try to use notion or keep to send myself some random string of text but am I logged in on my desktop? Idk. Just use email.

Also there are so many things like air drop, nfc, etc, but so many of them are so specific to certain devices. Maybe one day we’ll figure this out lol

garbagebagel ,

Glad I’m not the only one! I am extra old and use my Hotmail too…

PythagreousTitties ,

Most of my emails are to myself going back and forth between PC and phone lol

nepenthes ,
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You don’t even have to send it, you can save as draft.

PythagreousTitties ,

That’s brilliant. Thank you

dantheclamman ,
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Haven’t had to email a file to myself since I set up syncthing

CaptnNMorgan , in GMod admins when you noclip
todd_bonzalez , in My friend JD Vance has never cuddled a couch.

The best part of this is that J.D. Vance will never be able to be in a photo with a couch ever again. Think about how hard that is going to be, especially if he is VP.

Otherwise we’ll be collecting them as evidence of all the couches he’s fucked.

FlyingSquid , in Good news everyone
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r/FormerPizzaHuts must be over the moon.

Kalcifer , (edited ) in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
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No shout out for my boi, LocalSend?

alteredracoon ,

Love LocalSend! Have been using it almost daily since I found it.

feddylemmy ,

This is why I love lemmy. Bookmarked! Thank you.

meliaesc ,

Anyone have any other cool crossplatform tools to share?

naught101 ,

SSH/SFTP?

pipes ,

croc is great, works even when devices cant find each other on the network, or with gigantic folders (I use it between computers).

Or Simplex chat, I dont use it to chat but only to quickly share between phone and laptop :)

Kalcifer ,
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You’re welcome 😊

1stQ ,

The only thing is that both devices need to be in the same WiFi net. But it also works on the road when the laptop uses the phones Hotspot.

DogWater ,

Is safe?

Kalcifer ,
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How do you mean?

DogWater ,

Is it vetted by someone reputable?

tatterdemalion ,
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So we’re reinventing scp now?

frunch , in Good news everyone

I still remember earning my Personal Pan Pizza™ for reading 5 books over one summer… Anyone else have a Book-It pin from back then?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a587bb97-c640-4e76-b483-debf7ed87a3b.png

uis , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

I use KDE Connect

booly ,

Yes, that’s in the picture.

roguetrick ,

KDE Connect

Why isn’t it Konnect?

androogee ,

Multiple Ks in a row gets risky fast

uis ,

Right, merica stuff.

uis ,

КDE Кonneкt.

nicknonya , in Welcome, visitor.
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aw no tentacles :(

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Well… maybe just a few tentacles…

knight , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

I use WebDAV because my phones use that for all services which keeps everything on my own servers. Contacts, calendar, files, etc. Both Android and iPhone can be set up this way.

LMagicalus , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
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Command line FTP is good enough for me.

GTG3000 ,

I used to use FTP for file transfer, nowadays I just start up a HTTPS server on the source machine and grab stuff from there.

fffact , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

pairdrop.net

patak , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
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Localsend ;)

simplejack , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way
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Wireless file transfers over the LAN. I ain’t got time to find my damn thumb drives.

gentooer ,

Long live netcat

PeriodicallyPedantic , in Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer? It’s this not a thing anymore?

Why the extra step of writing it to thumb drive?

todd_bonzalez ,

These are the people who take screenshots with their phone cameras.

OP is just revealing that they don’t understand device-to-device file transfers.

olutukko ,

remember when it was somehow trendy to take a picture with snapchat and the screenshot it to it shows the tools on right and post that on instagram? that shit was stupid as hell

explodicle ,

I still do that all the time. I work with a bunch of different computers and it’s easier than sending a file or writing the info down.

I get that there’s device to device file transfers, but it’s slower, and other employees would undoubtedly fill my phone with garbage screenshots, if not virus furry porn.

PythagreousTitties ,

I shamelessly take pictures of my screen all the time if I have to.

kungen ,

Maybe not trusting their computer having full access to their phone’s files?

Takumidesh ,

That’s not a USB drive, it’s an adapter.

PeriodicallyPedantic , (edited )

Male to male?
People are going to plug their phone directly into their computer without a cable?

Edit
The title says it’s a USB drive, not an adapter

fishbone ,

The adapter shown is functionally identical to a usb 2 to usb c cable. I believe the meme is essentially suggesting the same thing you did with using a file explorer.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Kinda… But who the fuck has a male/female USB or usb-c cable sitting around???

One of the ends of this adapter should be female, or this should just be an A/C cord. The fact that it’s not made me think that this is actually a thumbdrive, not that I can confirm if it actually is or what OP actually meant.

Blueberrydreamer ,

Why would you need a male/female USB?

This device is basically just a really short charging/data cable. I don’t understand what’s so confusing about it. It’s functionally identical to using the standard charging cable, just with the devices closer together.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Because in practice you’re gonna need a cable anyways, since it’s a vanishingly small chance that your phone’s port lines up perfectly with your computer’s port when you set it down.
Maybe you can find a book that’s just the right height to put your phone on (RIP if you have a desktop), but just having a cable is still a better option.

This is either a male/male adapter, or a thumb drive… In either case, a-to-c USB cable would be a better solution, and a less confusing image.

fishbone ,

I agree that a cable would be wildly more useful than what’s pictured, for what it’s worth.

That said (tangentially related), I have a few male/female usb cables and they’re a godsend. Extremely handy for game controllers and/or extenders for bluetooth or wireless device dongles.

Tabula_stercore ,

Ha gayyyyy

Blackmist ,

They are, but I don’t recommend it unless you want at least one of the ports to snap internally as it hangs out the front of the PC.

dual_sport_dork , (edited )
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Nope, it’s a USB drive.

Quite a few of the usual memory device manufacturers make drives that have a Type A USB plug on one end, and either Micro USB or Type C on the other. They’re specifically meant for one end to easily plug into your PC, and the other end to go into your phone. Not, obviously, both at the same time.

Example: pny.com/duo-link-usb-3-2-type-c-dual-flash-drive

Or: westerndigital.com/…/sandisk-ultra-dual-drive-m30…

I have one sitting in my desk that’s so old it still has a Micro USB connector on it and is therefore not terribly useful in this day and age.

Empricorn ,

Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way

majestictechie ,

I would do this before using a double sided USB

PriorityMotif ,
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Most phones are only USB 2.0. I don’t know why you would want to mess with that if you don’t have to.

Empricorn ,

My employer encrypts external drives, including iPads and phones.

marcos ,

Almost no phone would allow that nowadays.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

No phone allow which? Writing to a thumb drive (I believe that) or connecting to a computer directly?

Just tried connecting my pixel 7 to my Ubuntu laptop and it worked. Im pretty sure I’ve done it with windows too, on previous pixel phones.

Emerald , (edited )

Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer?

That’s right, you cannot. Well, sometimes you can. MTP is quite an unreliable technology, at least for Linux users. Sometimes you’ll plug in a device and it’ll work fine, other times it won’t even show up.

P.S. and yes I have enabled MTP on the android device

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Idk
I just plugged my pixel into my Ubuntu laptop, and tapped on the USB charging notification on my phone, selected “more options” and changed the selection from “no data transfer” to “move files”.

Then my Ubuntu file viewer could see all my files. Or at least a lot of them.

Matriks404 ,

Except that if you connect your phone to a computer using USB, it will transfer files using MTP and it’s pain in the ass, as it’s slow and unreliable. Sending files over Bluetooth is better (but not much) over using USB connection.

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