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LocalSend - Share files to nearby devices
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Stupid question from an ignorant fool: how does this differ from just using bluray to transfer files?
EDIT: GOD I AM AN IDIOT I MEAN BLUETOOTH. BLUETOOTH. XDDD
Burning physical bluray discs can take quite a lot of time.
I meant BLUETOOTH. Lol. I mistyped. xD
Also disk drives are basically non-existant these days. But to each their own.
I mistyped. I.meant Bluetooth. Lol.
That being said, disk drives are extremely common if you build your own PC. 😈
Idk about now... But BluRay Disk drives were quite expensive and not worth it, only worth it if you could burn Blu rays but those were even more expensives. So not common at all. Even physical games that could have benefit from then used just multiple DVDs instead, like the Flight Simulator 2020 which uses likes 10 DVDs
You said disk drives, not specifically bluray disk drives. The former is not entirely uncommon yet, though the latter may be. Although in retrospect it may have been obvious by context that that's what you were talking about. Sorry about that.
Well actually you got confused as I am not the guy who did say "disk drives", that's somebody else.
In any case I understood you as talking about the non BluRay indicating they are common in builds.
I mentioned BluRays because that's the only one that nowadays could make sense to have and could be common to add to a build, but not even that is being used commonly due to being expensive and basically only used by movies and those are usually played elsewhere.
I honestly don't think most people would bother building a new PC with a normal disk drive, they are completely useless. New games/software/video/music are digital or use BluRays, except music I guess. And any other uses has been replaced with external USB drives or other mediums as those are better in many ways. So unless you have some specific need it's worthless and if you have a need a external USB disk drive is more practical.
Whoops! Sorry. ^^"
I wouldn't say they're completely useless, but I can agree with enough of what you're saying to at least respond with a simple "that's fair." :)
Answering the question you meant to ask, blueray is a physica... just kidding.
LocalSend is basically like bluetooth file sharing over WiFi. Bluetooth, especially the fallback 2.0 is notoriously slow and short ranged. The situation got better with BLE, 5.0 and Long Range. Still, both devices need to speak BT. Ap*le's iOS is well known to ignore BT file sharing capabilities while implementing own proprietary solutions. On desktop, the situation is still bad. I once tried to send a file between two Windows machines via BT, and it was a horrible user experience. LocalSend (and similar) fix this by implementing cross platform apps and using readily available API's to share files with few clicks and reasonably high speed between a plethora of devices. I guess, if you don't have the aforementioned problems, you won't need LocalSend et al.
So that's why my Bluetooth file transferring back in like 2015 was slow as balls! I also assumed it was the devices I had. Lol. Which is weird considering I could have sworn I had also done BT file transfers with other devices previously and it seemed a lot faster. (None of these were Apple devices).
Rude.
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for explaining. :D
Haha
It does work over network, so you don't need any physical connection apart from being in the same network. Therefore, it's easier, faster, less complicated, and more.
I mistyped. Lmao. I meant BLUETOOTH. Haha.