| ▲ | dhosek 3 hours ago |
| Oh my goodness, the use cases are so… badly conceived: > If a friend sends you a picture on your phone and you need to email it from your laptop, the file is just there — no need to email it to yourself. So are there really people who will email a photo to themselves from their phone to… send the photo in an email? Interesting to note that there is no mention of processor or operating system in that post. I’m guessing that it’s Android in a laptop form factor which I suppose might be something that some people would want, but I’m not one of them. |
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| ▲ | array_key_first 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Getting files on and off of a phone is shockingly hard. Shockingly. It's even worse on an iPhone, if you don't have a mac. To get my photos from my iPhone to my PC, I had to first upload them to iCloud and then download them again. My phone and computer are, like, a foot away from each other but I had to send the photos across the country to some server and back just to look at them. |
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| ▲ | engeljohnb an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Everyone emails themself stuff, that's normal. The weird part is how often will you ever need to email it specifically from your laptop, but it's already on your phone? If it's on your phone and you need to email it to someone, couldn't you just email from your phone? | |
| ▲ | xp84 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Oh, I use use AirDrop to myself for this. Yes, given my photo library syncs to iCloud, just opening Photos seems like it makes sense on a fast WAN which I sort-of do have, but of course, iCloud syncs only happen when the device decides the mood is just right, and can't be triggered manually, because I guess that would just be 'clutter' in the UI. | |
| ▲ | jeroenhd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's mostly an iPhone problem. Plugging in an Android phone still works, and wireless exchange with QuickShare also works on most devices. With Google reverse engineering Airdrop, I hope they can get the Android <-> macOS experience to finally work correctly soon as well. | |
| ▲ | kps 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | KDE Connect may work for you. (You don't have to use KDE.) | |
| ▲ | dmonitor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I personally just have a discord with myself as the only member. With their webhooks API you can even automate the PC side. | |
| ▲ | nnm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I emailed myself many times to transfer some files between phone and computer. I would say at least once every week. | |
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| ▲ | bsimpson 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | My only real use of Google Keep is as a cross-device clipboard. | |
| ▲ | mavamaarten 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I'm super techy but I admit that I just use Signal to send me a "Note to self" whenever I need a file from my phone on my computer quickly. For images I just use immich, but texting myself is honestly the quickest way for files because the experience is indeed terrible. | | |
| ▲ | flal_ an hour ago | parent [-] | | Same here with the Telegram "Saved Messages" ( the same stuff as Signal's ) |
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| ▲ | zeroonetwothree an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can just use Dropbox or equivalent. |
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| ▲ | HarHarVeryFunny 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They should have just said "USE it on your laptop", not email it. I all the time use my phone as a camera (esp. for coin photography) than e-mail the photos to myself as the most convenient way to get them on my desktop where I can edit them with GIMP etc. |
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| ▲ | unholiness 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I just open photos.google.com and grab them. No need to fiddle on my phone. When on wifi, the photo backup upload starts immediately. If it doesn't (possibly due to your settings, this used to be my issue) you can manually open the photos app and tap the backup now button. | | |
| ▲ | HarHarVeryFunny 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not sure if that's an option for me, since I'm not using the regular camera app - I'm using Halide which is better suited to macro (coin) photography. Google Drive would be another option to transfer, but would be more work (about same to "share" as email, but less convenient to access on desktop). The e-mail way is actually quite convenient since on the desktop you can just download all the photos you sent in one go - they appear as a zip file that you can then just extract to your working directory, rather than having to save one at a time. |
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| ▲ | dmix an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| These are usually targeted at kids and newbies. My mom would 100% appreciate that feature for photos and pdfs. She still struggles with files on Windows and managing files are even less clear on chromebook. |
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| ▲ | famouswaffles an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah I and i suspect a lot of others email myself little files all the time because surprisingly that's the most convenient way to get those files quickly from phone to laptop. |
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| ▲ | olsondv 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It’s a poor example. Recently, I did have to email myself photos taken with my phone to access them on my laptop. Would be nice if they were automatically synced. It’s work phone and laptop so I could have gone through OneDrive or Box but just as inconvenient as email. |
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