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One thing that has changed though, and this is a big pet peeve of mine. Bluetooth fucking file sharing. You used to be able to send files using bluetooth between devices. I had some old ass Nokia from 2005 and I could send files to my Linux computer over bluetooth.

This standard function doesn't exist on iOS but has been replaced with AirDrop. It's a big fuck you from Apple to everyone who prefers open standards.

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Ahhh, Bluetooth share ... I remember messing around with it in 2017 on some old Nokias and an Android phone. That was the last time it ever worked for me. It's been quietly supplanted or removed from my newer devices, and the pairing is quite finicky. Also, the transfer speeds (back then) were awful - Kb/s.

Now my go-to is Dropbox/cloud/Sharik for small files and rsync for bulk backups.

Sharik looks great! They need a canonical domain receivers can visit without entering IPs like https://pairdrop.net/ It even has a shortcut for the share menu!

https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/blob/master/docs/...

I was getting megabit speeds 20 years ago.

Maybe try localsend it‘s a great piece of software replicating airdrop but cross platform and open source.

https://localsend.org/

Until you try to send a file with an extension it’s not allowed to send on iOS like mkv. Apart from that’s great.

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