Sometime i want to send small messages between devices, such as a url, a note, a id, a token, a piece of code, a picture Especially send between phone and laptop.

Some chatting app have self messages such as telegram saved messages, slack (you), Microsoft team…

However i don’t want a bloated chat app that would took few hundred mb on phone, or required to install an app on my pc (linux which make many app broken). I don’t want work chat app too, because self messages can be seen and scanned by employer (yes, a security add on chatbot on slack warm me because i send something like password to myself on slack)

Something like Opera Flow would fit perfectly, but i don’t want opera browser.

  • sinedpick@awful.systems
    131·
    2 months ago

    It’s a huge failure of computing that this is the most convenient and obvious way to do this.

    • B0rax@feddit.org
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yep… but if you are on iOS and Mac, copy and paste works perfectly fine and seamless. But any other combination is not good.

      • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        *If you have paid for newer gen and all of your iOS and Mac devices are compatible…

        FTFY, it’s a heavy caveat that makes 80% of their equipment dead unless you give it a second life with a different operating system. I’ve got perfectly decent devices that are bricks in their current original OS unless I get real technical with it. One I can double the ram capacity in it because for some reason apple throttled it’s size but the hardware is designed for more if you just tweak it.

        I wish apple was better about it and the device file transfers was just a staple thing that had since conception. Air transfer is a pain in the ass from past experience and works when it wants to, cloud syncing also works when it wants to even when telling it to update it now. I have a partner who uses apple almost exclusively, it’s so close to being something decent but I can never tell what’s actually going on with a device and there always seems to be some kind of weird hiccup in any process (like 25% of the time, still noticeable from being seamless though).

        (I have frustration from this, I apologize for my rant)

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Or alternatively it’s a win of messaging, it’s so easy and convenient it can be easily used for the purposes not intended