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ArcaneGadget ,

Send via Bluetooth…

DJDarren ,

sad iPhone noises

Nikls94 ,

iPhone and Mac be like:

Device one: copy

Device two: paste

DJDarren ,

Right up until it doesn’t, for no reason you can ascertain.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

I usually just use Bluetooth cuz I’m only transferring an image or two over. But if it’s something big, I just use USB transfer because when the phone is plugged into the computer, it appears as an external drive.

Using this double sided boy seems like it would be putting a lot of weight on the USB port… 🤔

IkarusHagen2 ,

Send it to my discord

tobogganablaze ,

Or just use a USB cable.

renzev OP , (edited )

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/df1e7c92-5ef0-4f10-9ea2-0fcd7d02cd67.webp

For phone-to-computer it works fine. But double-sided boi will still win if you need to send files to a dumber device like a printer – those don’t typically support MTP or whatever iphones use. Unless you have an ancient android phone that gives full block-level access to the internal storage/microsd card through usb cable lol. I really miss that feature.

steersman2484 ,

I just add the printer on my phone and print over the network

saltesc ,

So many people on here always talking about printing stuff in 2024. Is everyone a lawyer?

tourist ,
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

Some banks and other places like that still require physical documents for stuff like proof of address, affidavits etc.

Even though they’re going to fucking scan it into pdf anyway

I use my printer to print silly stickers, because I am a manchild, but I don’t think I am using the correct ink or paper, because they fade very quickly and smudge sometimes.

Also use it to print graph paper to doodle on.

DakRalter ,
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club avatar

What type of printer/paper do you use? I find cheap photo paper works well for high res on my inkjet, although it can fade if you leave it in the sun. I’ve been using vinyl sticker sheets for customising my bike and it seems to be holding well, but I did laminate them with sticky back plastic first.

There’s also the sellotape trick, but that only works for laser printers and you obviously can’t print white.

MudMan ,

Wait, what feature? You can't access the phone's storage? I'm pretty sure I can access my phone's storage.

renzev OP ,

Old android phones used to emulate a USB mass storage device when you would connect them. To the computer, the phone would appear as a usb stick. Modern android phones, on the other hand, use a protocol called MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol), which is completely its own thing.

The reason they switched to MTP is that the old approach gave the computer complete control over the phone’s storage; the phone would become completely unusable while connected in this way, and would just display a “connected via usb” splash screen. With MTP, the phone continues to be usable while connected via USB. But it has the downside that MTP is a much less widespread protocol than USB mass storage. On personal computers it should “just work”, but on stuff like printers it might not.

Personally, I think they should bring back USB mass storage emulation as an optional feature. Heck, it can still be done, but you need to compile your own android ROM with usb mass storage drivers, which I’m not nearly skilled enough to do.

MudMan ,

Old USB implementation used to be a finicky nightmare, though. You make it sound like it wasn't changed for a reason, MTP connectivity on Android as it is now is so much more functional, as well as safer.

In any case, that solves the misunderstanding. I thought you meant you couldn't directly access phone storage anymore, which isn't the case.

The printer scenario seems like an edge case to me. I mean, MTP has been the default for what? Over a decade? If you have a recent printer you're probably fine (also, it probably has wifi and a dedicated mobile app or at least enough third party support to be used from your phone regardless). If your printer is older than that you're probably better served by going through your PC first anyway. Sure, you don't get direct USB access to printing photos, but now we're talking about a very specific feature that was in use for a very specific sliver of time, and it requires you to be tethered to a device anyway. I don't think that's enough to justify legacy storage support on phones.

renzev OP ,

Sure, you don’t get direct USB access to printing photos, but now we’re talking about a very specific feature that was in use for a very specific sliver of time, and it requires you to be tethered to a device anyway. I don’t think that’s enough to justify legacy storage support on phones.

Yeah, fair enough.

Jimbo ,
@Jimbo@yiffit.net avatar

Yeah, double sided boi looks like a great way to ruin your phone charging port if you don’t have a usb slot pointing straight up

Tangent5280 ,

I dont think you’re supposed to connect to both devices at the same time.

tostiman ,
@tostiman@sh.itjust.works avatar

Oh, it’s a USB stick. I thought it worked like a cable.

Wilzax ,

Cable with a really big delay but a REALLY big buffer

Rin ,

Sftp

Pika ,
@Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

I use KDE connect…

But my grandfather does the ol reliable method for image upload, which is:

  1. emails it to himself
  2. prints the email off
  3. scans the printout into his computer again
  4. uploads image to faceboom Facebook

I typo’d Facebook originally but thay was too good to get rid of so I just strikethrough’d it

RomenNarmo ,

Kde Connect

Evil_Shrubbery ,

IR data connection.

Print out on paper & scan it into the computer.

Copy the data into the computer in binary with an electron gun directly to SSD.

Recreate the data from scratch.

Install desktop os onto your phone & use it as your main rig to eliminate the need to transfer data in the first place.

Use an USB cable to connect the phone to a floppy drive & copy the data to floppy discs. And enjoy the asmr sounds as you do so.

Bluetooth if all else fails, but using a2dp dial-up frequencies.

Accept that there is no convenient way to transfer data & just live without it.

Maggoty ,

Depends on your workflow. I’m usually in google drive anyways. And the file is usually there anyways. So it’s just a few clicks away.

interdimensionalmeme ,

I got Plainapp From F-Droid and 100% of the time it works everytime github.com/ismartcoding/plain-app

BehindTheBarrier ,

Didn’t want to install something to move stuff of my laptop yesterday. Took a USB which has both a boot partition and a data partition, which worked on my W10 computer and moved it to the W11 laptop and it wouldn’t recognize it…

Long story short, I had to manual set the partition id for the data part using diskpart for the data partition to be recognized. But that was a lot more effort than expected to move a few files over.

WIPocket ,
@WIPocket@lemmy.world avatar

Run a ssh server on the phone and rsync stuff over.

Sam_Bass ,

I usually just plug my phone directly into the pc and copy the file directly

pyre ,

me too. the double sided thing looks awkward.

there’s also localsend if you prefer over wifi for any reason

rickdg ,
@rickdg@lemmy.world avatar

old iphone: hey guise

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