There is a little “most advanced transfer solutions” in your Spyware
I use syncthing for regular syncing of files and warpinator for single files.
iPhone and Mac be like:
Device one: copy
Device two: paste
Right up until it doesn’t, for no reason you can ascertain.
Just, buy a new iPhone and Mac every two years.
its amazing how its generally easier to transfer sonething to a server a country over for it to then reach the other device. instead of it going directly over local network speeds.
also how its much easier to backup to google than to you own computer thats right there.
It’s really not if you have the right setup at home, instead of using somebody else’s servers. Like nobody has a NAS or their own servers?
It’s much nicer not worrying about who can get to my files in the cloud, when they’re not in the cloud.
Command line FTP is good enough for me.
Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer? It’s this not a thing anymore?
Why the extra step of writing it to thumb drive?
Most phones are only USB 2.0. I don’t know why you would want to mess with that if you don’t have to.
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remember when it was somehow trendy to take a picture with snapchat and the screenshot it to it shows the tools on right and post that on instagram? that shit was stupid as hell
I still do that all the time. I work with a bunch of different computers and it’s easier than sending a file or writing the info down.
I get that there’s device to device file transfers, but it’s slower, and other employees would undoubtedly fill my phone with garbage screenshots, if not virus furry porn.
I shamelessly take pictures of my screen all the time if I have to.
Maybe not trusting their computer having full access to their phone’s files?
That’s not a USB drive, it’s an adapter.
Male to male?
People are going to plug their phone directly into their computer without a cable?Ha gayyyyy
The adapter shown is functionally identical to a usb 2 to usb c cable. I believe the meme is essentially suggesting the same thing you did with using a file explorer.
Kinda… But who the fuck has a male/female USB or usb-c cable sitting around???
One of the ends of this adapter should be female, or this should just be an A/C cord. The fact that it’s not made me think that this is actually a thumbdrive, not that I can confirm if it actually is or what OP actually meant.
I agree that a cable would be wildly more useful than what’s pictured, for what it’s worth.
That said (tangentially related), I have a few male/female usb cables and they’re a godsend. Extremely handy for game controllers and/or extenders for bluetooth or wireless device dongles.
Why would you need a male/female USB?
This device is basically just a really short charging/data cable. I don’t understand what’s so confusing about it. It’s functionally identical to using the standard charging cable, just with the devices closer together.
Because in practice you’re gonna need a cable anyways, since it’s a vanishingly small chance that your phone’s port lines up perfectly with your computer’s port when you set it down.
Maybe you can find a book that’s just the right height to put your phone on (RIP if you have a desktop), but just having a cable is still a better option.This is either a male/male adapter, or a thumb drive… In either case, a-to-c USB cable would be a better solution, and a less confusing image.
They are, but I don’t recommend it unless you want at least one of the ports to snap internally as it hangs out the front of the PC.
Nope, it’s a USB drive.
Quite a few of the usual memory device manufacturers make drives that have a Type A USB plug on one end, and either Micro USB or Type C on the other. They’re specifically meant for one end to easily plug into your PC, and the other end to go into your phone.
Example: https://www.pny.com/duo-link-usb-3-2-type-c-dual-flash-drive
I have one sitting in my desk that’s so old it still has a Micro USB connector on it and is therefore not terribly useful in this day and age.
Can you not just plug your phone into your computer, and then use your computer’s file manager to drag it from your phone to your computer?
That’s right, you cannot. Well, sometimes you can. MTP is quite an unreliable technology, at least for Linux users. Sometimes you’ll plug in a device and it’ll work fine, other times it won’t even show up.
P.S. and yes I have enabled MTP on the android device
Idk
I just plugged my pixel into my Ubuntu laptop, and tapped on the USB charging notification on my phone, selected “more options” and changed the selection from “no data transfer” to “move files”.Then my Ubuntu file viewer could see all my files. Or at least a lot of them.
I would do this before using a double sided USB
Almost no phone would allow that nowadays.
No phone allow which? Writing to a thumb drive (I believe that) or connecting to a computer directly?
Just tried connecting my pixel 7 to my Ubuntu laptop and it worked. Im pretty sure I’ve done it with windows too, on previous pixel phones.
Ghost commander smb to NAS.
Is FX bad now? Been using it for nearly a decade and it works great for me.
I have a file manager named FX on my android (costef just a couple of euros), is thatwhat you ate talking about?
Yep, been using the pro version for a long time.
I use FX too. 0 problems.
or just a normal ass USB a to c cord
The real gangstas are living in the C to C future.
Syncthing if I have to sync regularly, KDE connect from phone to PC and magic-wormhole if I want to send something to a friend.
Local send.
You’re welcome
I just put it on an SD card and pop it in my phone.
Nintendo DS wireless file transfer lol
Bangai Oh! Had custom levels you could load by playing a sound file into the mic on the DS. Wild stuff!
Gameboy color infrared is all I need
Attach it to a draft email. Log in on the other thing, go to drafts, download your file, delete draft.
you joke, but I’ve got my most recent salvo of audio books sitting in a double sided flash drive on my desk, right now
The one thing Apple did right. AirDrop is nice, and I wish PairDrop worked for Bluetooth aswell.
I mean, we already have Nearby Share/Quickshare on Samsung, but it is still kind of finnicky.
Quick share works on all phones now. Google’s nearby share was renamed to quick share. And there’s also a windows client now
