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  • Well, what we mean by “on the same network” maybe more complicated then it sounds if a device has multiple network interfaces and a non-trivial routing such as any modern smartphone that smartly switches between wifi and cell. It’s plausible that various apps and devices have a different behaviour which network they treat as local/standard.

    However, I just tried it out with two Samsung Androids. One is a hotspot and has no other wifi. The other one uses the hotspot (and no other wifi obviously). Then lauching pairdrop, they can “see each other” (through broadcast packages I assume) on the local network. During testing the hotspot device had internet access through 5G, so both devices could reach paridrop.net, but I believe, this is not needed while in local network mode. At least the file transfer itself should not go through the internet in this mode.

    I had similar a similar experience with syncthing. Sure, the hotspot is a hack and neither super reliable nor super fast on most phones, but at least my phone does not seem to block access from/to the hotspot device.












  • b) is a recent(*) change. GitHub was independent when it became big

    a) GitHub was never open-source, but by combing git and great UI/UX, it was a good choice.

    Git is open-source and the distributed nature of git reduces the vendor-lock-in. You need to understand where we came from (svn or git to some ssh server). Coming from self-hosted git, embracing github did not take away your power over your own source code; you still had a copy of all branches on multiple machines. The world is different now, where github has become a single-point of failure.

    (*) Update: Okay, maybe 2018 was not recently, but my point stands. GitHub existed long before the Microsoft purchase.







  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.mlMacOS Preview equivalent
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    4 months ago

    Preview is one of the things mac os got right. it’s hard to copy. If you think about it, it does not make sense that a tool called preview that most people use to quickly read pdf (and other) files, is also a lightweight pdf editor, which is often more useful than acrobat or pdfedit or whatever you use.

    It’s not logical. no one will make a clone of it.

    you’ll have to get used to other tools.