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   Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 10:34:58 JST Æ.

   The fact that there is no default, standardized way of transferring files directly between devices from different manufacturers that all have an entire array of wireless communication technologies available encapsulates a lot of the failings of modern tech.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 10:36:54 JST Rich Felker

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     • BenRiceM

     @dragonfrog @aesthr @BenRiceM No, no, no. Dropping off the wifi network I want to be on (and where I might have other in-progress network activities I don't want to disrupt) is a non-starter. The whole reason Bluetooth exists is to facilitate direct communication between devices in physical vicinity of each other. The transfer should happen over BT.

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     dragonfrog (dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 10:36:55 JST dragonfrog

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     • BenRiceM

     @aesthr @BenRiceM It seems to me that *in principle* that could be a decent system, if the computers did all the fiddly work for you.

     Like: I select the photos I want to send, and the bluetooth name of your device I want to send to. You acknowledge that you want to receive the photos. Then the two cameras/phones/smart waffle irons talk bluetooth to agree on an ad hoc wifi network, then talk HTTP to transfer the files, then tear everything down once receipt is confirmed.

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     BenRiceM (benricem@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 10:36:56 JST BenRiceM

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     @aesthr or that cameras have to set up an ad hoc WiFi network to transfer photos

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     Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 10:36:56 JST Æ.

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     • BenRiceM

     @BenRiceM yeah. That has always been such a terrible system

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     Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jul-2025 10:36:57 JST Æ.

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     There is no practical reason why I shouldn't be able to just send a game screenshot from my game console to my phone without going through some cloud service, or to just give a fellow student that PDF we both need to read from my Linux laptop to their Windows laptop or MacBook.