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0. ssh/d so i can transfer files like a human being, not an animal.

Starting with 0 and transferring files via ssh means you are a special kind of animal.

I mean, we're literally on Hacker News.

Circle is not complete until I see a suggestion on how you can replace iCloud with mashup scripting of sftp/rsync and cronjobs.

Those can't replace iCloud because they are free. Write the sftp/rsync script and then throw money in the garbage to accurately replace iCloud.

s/iCloud/Dropbox/g

Here on HN, mentioning Dropbox makes the circle complete.

No, the circle is not complete until an article is posted about how a 15 year old cobbled together a website/app combo that did it automatically and grew to a few million users overnight; Apple hired the kid, killed the app, and wrote a new layer of signed security into iOS that would prevent anything like that from working again; and that layer was responsible for the last iCloud outage because somebody at Apple accidentally let a certificate expire.

What sorts of files are you transferring? For things like PDFs or videos I normally use something like https://file.pizza.

That's an awesome thanks for mentioning it.

Is there some trick to make file.pizza work? I'm leaving the tab open and trying on various different devices, but it just stays at Peers: 0 and nothing downloads.

I would guess your network is blocking WebRTC. Are you at work?

While I do have WebRTC blocking on this computer, I tried sharing from other devices and networks too, chrome and firefox and mobile versions. According to [1]&[2] WebRTC UDP and TCP are enabled, relay/reflexive/host connectivity.

[1] https://www.expressvpn.com/webrtc-leak-test [2] https://test.webrtc.org/

Does that compete at all speed-wise with just plugging it into your computer via USB? I guess your local network should be fairly fast, but I would think that USB would still be faster (not to mention that you wouldn't need to find the right file from the terminal).

> plugging it into your computer via USB

wires

>wires

and dongles. It's IOS device after all.

Copying files over USB is ludicrously slow and requires cross-device trust and exposure to dirty USB.

Let's not deceive ourselves: Apple deliberately cripples standardised data exchange mechanisms to push iCloud and aht Apple ecosystem.

The files app on ios works with smb. . . it's not sftp but it works.