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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wanted something like this for weddings or group camping type events for sharing photos to multiple others at once.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isnt that what QuickShare and Airdrop solves?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

QuickShare, AirDrop and LocalSend all use WiFi, which can be a problem when using a VPN (it is for me).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like the problem is your vpn client if you cant chose what traffic goes into it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can blame whatever or whoever you want, the problem remains.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I just changed the routing for local networks to ignore the VPN

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It depends on the VPN client, doesn't it? I use iptables to route everything through a proxy except local host and proxied connections

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Right but turning the VPN off invalidates the purpose of using a VPN. And even if it didn't, it's not convenient to disable on both devices and then turn it back on. The whole purpose of this software is convenience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Airdrop is two people at a time. Say we had a group of 8 people I don’t want to do 7 air drop exchanges to get all the photos.