Maybe. For sure it's an extremely elegant and efficient way to securely exchange files, without using email or the usual cloud services.
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I tried to install it but there's some fuckery with Fedora 37+ at the moment.
I use LocalSend and Syncthing though, so I get the appeal. It's quite lovely to just do things locally.
I forgot about LocalSend, it seems now to be a very supported project! Do you know what are the technical differences, compared to Magic Wormhole?
I actually don't. And I probably should, but I usually use a USB drive for things I don't want going over a network or for 'cold' backups of security-critical data.
Oh I just read that actually LocalSend is local only (genius me), so use cases are different.
Yeah has to be on the same network or some near protocol like Bluetooth (maybe?).
Syncthing can go over WAN I believe, but I configure it to be local network only.
Syncthing is also a little more involved it seems. More like local, distributed cloud storage in my experience. Kind of slow for a file transfer use case too.
That would be my guess though. Apple *could* install LocalSend, but then they wouldn't control it like AirDrop or whatever it's called