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Google's interpretation of Apple's AirDrop, Nearby Share, is now officially out of beta for Windows. (www.gsmarena.com)
submitted 2 years ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] noodlejetski@geddit.social 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

[–] Darkhoof@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] inspxtr@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] noodlejetski@geddit.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Kde connect is great

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Reorder9543@social.fossware.space 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Sausage@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I wonder if Linux would join in as well

[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dvdnet90@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Pairdrop/snapdrop is good and no need for installation