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Google's interpretation of Apple's AirDrop, Nearby Share, is now officially out of beta for Windows.

Nearby Share is a very apt name - it basically describes exactly what the entire point of it is. You can use it to quickly (and easily) share stuff between Android phones, regardless of maker. And starting today, you can use it to share files between Windows PCs and Android devices.

Sir_Simon_Spamalot ,

I wonder if Linux would join in as well

dvdnet90 ,
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Pairdrop/snapdrop is good and no need for installation

AnonymousLlama ,
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Fancy, never even knew they were working on this, cheers

Sausage ,
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Just think, somebody probably got paid to come up with that name. How do I get that job?

HootinNHollerin , (edited )
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Product marketing. I’m still waiting on them (at my employer) to come up with a name for a project I’ve been working on that’s over 6 months old and have no doubt it’ll be dumb

Update: product marketing didn’t do their job of researching the competition and just now discovered it already exists.

EhList ,
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Gleemonex!

JizzmasterD ,

It’s a drug, for the world, that gives worms to ex-girlfriends. You guys just don’t get it in here?! Sheesh!

EhList ,
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But could it give worms to someone else?

stopthatgirl7 ,
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That is honestly such a boring name. Google is so terrible at naming things.

Reorder9543 ,
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It’s boring, but like someone else mentioned it tells you exactly what it does. So, I don’t really see a problem with it.

stopthatgirl7 ,
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For me, it’s just another sign of how uncreative Google can be. They couldn’t even think of an original name for their folding phone, just copied Samsung’s naming. To me, it’s a little thing that actually indicative of a deeper problem.

amenotef ,
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I use this one to transfer big and small files and works very well.

noodlejetski ,

friendly reminder that KDE Connect is a thing, and that it works between multiple platforms and lets you do much more than just copy the files over the network.

kdeconnect.kde.org

inspxtr ,

I like the idea but I could never get KDE connect to work over VPN :(

noodlejetski ,

works fine with Mullvad for me, I just had to enable “local network sharing” in Mullvad app’s settings. using split tunneling to exclude KDE Connect from routing through VPN would most likely work, too.

inspxtr ,

so does that mean that the connection between your phone and PC (for example) established by KDE connect can be seen by your ISP?

noodlejetski ,

no.

PlexSheep ,
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Kde connect is great

Darkhoof ,
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And it is open-source, and not dependent on Google who might just kill this feature in the future anyway.

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