Good way to send small messages between devices ? (lemmy.world)

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Sometime i want to send small messages between devices, such as a url, a note, a id, a token, a piece of code, a picture Especially send between phone and laptop.

Some chatting app have self messages such as telegram saved messages, slack (you), Microsoft team...

However i don't want a bloated chat app that would took few hundred mb on phone, or required to install an app on my pc (linux which make many app broken). I don't want work chat app too, because self messages can be seen and scanned by employer (yes, a security add on chatbot on slack warm me because i send something like password to myself on slack)

Something like Opera Flow would fit perfectly, but i don't want opera browser.

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[-] ninjaturtle@lemmy.today 14 points 9 hours ago

Localsend is a good one to try out. Works with all devices and is pretty fast. It does however require an app to run.

For something you can run off the web on PC you can try pairdrop. This doesn't require an app to work on PC. Haven't tried it without the app on mobile so not sure if it will work on there via web.

I prefer Localsend over pairdrop due to local send being completely server less and all local.

[-] ironsoap@lemmy.one 1 points 1 hour ago

Local send works well for me between android and iDevices in most cases. I will say it struggles with VPN'ed connections, which is by design of the network and some VPN will block local connections.

I know sharedrop.io uses a similar web based model as pairdrop and runs into the same VPN issue, but I'm curious if the room function might overcome that in pairdrop.

[-] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

It's also worth mentioning that localsend has specific Linux support, so the app should run fine. I use it on my Linux laptop all the time!

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