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5 is infuriating, especially if the site engages in fuckery like putting an ad under where the desired click disappeared from, so the user ends up clicking the ad.
#1 I thought nord vpn handled this pretty well with meshnet. Its been my go-to now for a year now.
Dark patterns. All 5. Problem solved
5 is worst on websites, but “adaptive UX” apps do this, too. It’s a crime.
4 is trivially fixed, for many Linux WMs. Here’s for KDE. It’s less trivial for xfce, but possible. Here’s how to do it in i3 (this is as simple as any configuration in i3).
3 is clearly satire, and a very real and valid condemnation about modern web page design. Use Hugo (or similar) and pick a lightweight theme: there are several nice looking ones that specifically exclude JavaScript, which is the main culprit.
1 is such. A. Pain. Sure, if you use KDE or mconnect and the KDE app on Android, it’s easy. The Device Connect app works really well. Apple to Apple is trivial. But arbitrary device to arbitrary device? The problem is that there’s no standard championed by anyone. Apple is not interested in pushing their protocol: they have a vested interest in making all other devices a PITA so people are encouraged to buy into the Apple ecosystem. Google has been oddly inactive about it. Samsung does the same thing Apple does. We have the Wormhole protocol which is fantastic, but not even the main Linux desktops have built-in support; c.f. KDE Connect.
python3 -m http.server
It’s the only way I can send anything to my old iPad. Aside from straight up using some cloud service ofc. This is much faster tho.Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS can all open samba shares…
In theory, yes. But does it work out of the box? The files app that shipped with my android does not seem capable of opening a samba share. Conclusion: I would need an external app.
And what about creating Samba shares? In my experience, creating a Samba share has been frustrating and cumbersome.
Not exactly a one-click share solution. If you set it up and get it to work then great, but at that point I could just use KDE Connect.
iOS does actually support SMB out of the box, I am able to just navigate to my shares with no issues. But android does, I use an app called “Cx File Explorer” and it works perfectly fine.
But I will admit, setting up and managing samba shares is cumbersome and requires quite a bit of know-how
Funny enough though, I think windows actually handles SMB shares the best out of all of them. They’re actually super resilient and reconnect super fast.
I didn’t know iOS supports it out of the box. Cool thatvit does though!
I use Mixplorer on android which also supports SMB shares. Works well enough.
And it would make sense that Windows manages it the best, SMB was, after all, microsofts invention as far as I know.
One issue that I had to deal with because of that is that SMB doesn’t support all characters in file names that ext4 or btrfs do. There is a “work around” that replaces the ofdending characters with lookalikes you can choose, but it’s obviously not perfect and if you would have two files with the same file name but one has the invalid character replaced with a lookalike, I think samba would probably get confused because iirc, the protocol itself cannot transmit characters in file names that aren’t allowed in NTFS.
Also when I set it up on my server, it caused me many frustrating hours of looking for why it doesn’t work only for me to find out at some point that the share needs a special SELinux flag. Setting up an NFS share worked out of the box with no SELinux shenanigans required. That’s why I’m still grumpy at samba.
may i introduce you to LocalSend? Works on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone/iPad; its FOSS, and uses a REST API and HTTPS encryption. It even has a portable mode, i use it in our Windows/Linux/Android/Steamdeck home and it works flawless and fast.
edit: Didn’t see that it was already recommended below, lol. but no harm done, localsend is really a great tool for any network, especially with mixed os clients
I love magic wormhole. Still trying to get my bf on board with it. Before that, I used sftp.
Me too! It’s easy and reliable.
But I’d settle for any protocol that was standard and available on all platforms without an extra install.
I wonder, how many solved problems did Javascript undo?
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Just #3 by the looks of it
Too many to count.
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For #1 you can try KDE Connect. Send files and clipboards between your devices over wifi or bluetooth.
Sending stuff to another person’s device? 🤷
Doesn’t work for me on public WiFi. Tried using device IP, no luck. In my home WiFi it works perfectly though. Haven’t tried Bluetooth, didn’t know that’s possible
Many public wifi networks disable peer to peer connections over the network for security purposes, which breaks KDE Connect
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I’ve heard good things about LocalSend.
LocalSend is great.
Needed to send some stuff from my Linux server to my wife’s Window’s PC the other day, but I was at work and she couldn’t get her PC to see the folders I’m sharing over the network. So I used AnyDesk from my Mac at work, opened LocalSend on the server and sent the files over. 1GB sent over in about 10 seconds. Amazing stuff.
Some parts of living in the future are magic.
If I refresh Lemmy in the browser repeatedly the UI text renders in Chinese for a split second.
I guess what I’m saying is that computers are hard.
5 is intentional. Websites choose what size ads are displayed, they plan ad placement and page layout around that. If the page is jumping around as ads load they want it to. They want you to accidentally click, because that gets them more money than simply displaying the ad.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity” - or laziness/incompetence/lack of care in this case.
This happens regularly even on sites with no ads.
You give these people far too much credit.No that was true 10-20 years ago, prior to the online advertising systems becoming so refined. They used to just send an ad with a general size, horizontal, vertical, etc.
It’s too common and stick website designs take advertising sizes and loading into account now, so despite constant complaints now it has to be intentional.
woosh 🤣😂
3 is intentional, too. A performant page requires paying a skilled web developer.
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How is centered div formed
It’s actually really easy though! Look up a Flex box generator and copy the code it gives you!
4 - I bet there’s some a setting for that in some Linux DE
1 - I did literally that two days ago with scp, cause I’ve had 200 GB to transfer and 40 GB free space on my pendrive
Gnome 3 implemented 4 as a core feature and got so much flack from users for it. So they made it trigger less and less until they effectively removed it. I still see it happen, but very rarely.
4 - I bet there’s some a setting for that in some Linux DE
XFCE’s WM (xfwm4) settings. And yes, I keep it unchecked.
I’ll check again but it didn’t work as I wanted to last time. What I want: give focus to new processes started by the user, but once the user manually switches windows, do not pop that app into the foreground when it is done launching. Also: not stealing focus was useless when the unfocused window would pop up over the one I was currently using.
NeXTSTEP worked exactly this way, and it was glorious. Its window manager simply had the concept of “no current focus.” Programs could not steal focus, they could only gain focus either by explicit user action, or grabbing it when nothing else was focused. When you started an application, there would be no focus while it loaded. If you waited, the new application would grab focus. If you moved on to a different window, the new application would pop up in the background. New windows, dialog boxes, and notification-type events would put an indicator on the application’s icon in the dock.
That does indeed sound glorious. I am afraid to look it up because you spoke of it in past tense :(
KDE has “Window Rules” and I think it has an option for that
Window rules rule!
For #1 you wanna try Magic wormhole. Maybe it’s less user-friendly than you need it to be, but it works and there are lots of implementations for different owes (don’t know about iOS though).
Cool stuff. How does this stack up vs syncthing? I have a weekly clip show I’d love to be able to share with friends and family
they both do private file sharing, but their working principle is inherently different: wormhole, localsend, pairdrop etc. send a file once, whereas syncthing aims to sync a folder on 2 or more devices bidirectionally
That sounds better for my use case, right? I could send my show out, and not have to worry about whether they deleted it.
I used to use Pushbullet. Haven’t really needed it in a long time since discord came on the scene really. But it did the job really well and was super easy to use.
There’s also localsend, which works like a charm.
python -m http.server 8000
i would absolutely recommend localsend. it has ios, android and desktop apps and it works flawlessly:
Edit: iirc you need to be in the same network though, it does not have gateway (?) servers like wormhole
That is kind of the problem though. There are many solutions, all with their own pros and cons. But after all these years no universal standard has managed to appear.
Have you tried NordVPN meshnet?
You asked for it
I thought it would be https://xkcd.com/949/.
Honestly transferring files over the internet is a solved problem.
i was going to say, your missing one finding a job in cs.
I’ve had downloads resume properly over http back in the 2000s at least 4 times.
I haven’t really had a problem with this, tbh.
Yes the problem is solved, but it’s not well supported where it’s needed.
That’s probably due to all those sites putting their own authentication mechanism in front of the download instead of just letting the webserver handle it.
Built something like that myself a few years ago with PHP. And while it wasn’t super hard it wasn’t trivial either and not supported out of the box by the common libraries.
I think I just never need it, so I have no idea how “solved” it is. It’s absolutely supported by most clients, and I’ve had downloads resume, but I rarely Downloads anything large enough, over a network unreliable enough, to notice that a resume is needed.
Back in the early 2000s I was a teen on a 56k dial-up modem. There would be frequent connection drops, or if not that, my dad would simply kick me off the Internet so he could make a phone call. Trying to download large files through the browser would only end in tears, so a download manager that supported resume was absolutely essential.
I used something called FlashGet (I was a Windows user back then) which looking it up now apparently turned into a malware-riddled mess towards the end of its life, as did so many things. But it was an absolute lifesaver at the time.
I used Get Right. That type of program was a life-saver.
FlashGet brings me back haha.
I have memories of using a free dialup internet with ads and trying to download a Worms Armageddon demo of like 11-12MB and using FlashGet because my sister was kicking me off dialup.
