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LocalSend: I installed it across my entire stack and it replaced AirDrop, but there's a tradeoff nobody mentions

DEV Community·Juan Torchia·about 1 month ago
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LocalSend: I installed it across my entire stack and it replaced AirDrop, but there's a tradeoff nobody mentions LocalSend just hit 850 points on Hacker News — the highest score in today's trending. The community is euphoric. I tried it too. And I have something to say that you won't find in the posts flooding out over the next 48 hours. Full disclosure upfront: I'm not objective here. I run a Mac with Apple Silicon, two Linux boxes on Debian and Arch, an Android, and an iPhone I basically retired but still keep around for testing. AirDrop has been baked into my workflow for years. When something threatens to replace it, I test it properly. My thesis: LocalSend wins the philosophical argument, no contest. But there's a daily-friction tradeoff that nobody in that HN thread is actually measuring, and when you measure it, the story gets a little more complicated.…

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