along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 12 days agoThe EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDroparstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down13
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minus-squareLime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 days agoOkay, but it is a good alternative to it that works cross platform without workarounds. So yes it doesn’t solve that specific problem but it is a good alternative to AirDrop. Hopefully this workaround is allowed to continue, but we’ll see.
minus-squaredev_null@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoYeah, which is what I said. It’s great, but an alternative solution is an alternative solution. If someone is sharing a file to a group with Airdrop, you are not receiving it with localsend.
How so?
Localsend doesn’t support Airdrop.
Okay, but it is a good alternative to it that works cross platform without workarounds.
So yes it doesn’t solve that specific problem but it is a good alternative to AirDrop.
Hopefully this workaround is allowed to continue, but we’ll see.
Yeah, which is what I said. It’s great, but an alternative solution is an alternative solution. If someone is sharing a file to a group with Airdrop, you are not receiving it with localsend.
Okidoke.