Ah, open, as in not creating a seal in your ear, and not open as in open source.

I knew that…

Tell me more about this

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It’s not fundamentally different

I already saw copyparty but it appears to me to be a pretty large codebase for something so simple. I don’t want to have to keep up with that because there’s no way I’m reading and vetting all that code; it becomes a security problem.

It is still easier and infinitely more secure to grab a USB drive, a bicycle and just haul ass across town. Takes less time, too.

Sending is someone else’s problem.

It becomes my problem when I’m the one who wants the files and no free service is going to accept an 80gb file.

It is exactly my point that I should not have to deal with third parties or something as massive and monolithic as Nextcloud just to do the internet equivalent of smoke signals. It is insane. It’s like someone tells you they don’t want to bike to the grocer 5 minutes away because it’s currently raining and you recommend them a monster truck.

Why is it so hard to send large files?

Obviously I can just dump it on my server and people can download it from a browser but how are they gonna send me anything? I’m not gonna put an upload on my site, that’s a security nightmare waiting to happen. HTTP uploads have always been wonky, for me, anyway.

Torrents are very finnicky with 2-peer swarms.

instant.io (torrents…) has never worked right.

I can’t ask everyone to install a dedicated piece of software just to very occasionally send me large files

For one I don’t use software that updates constantly. If I had to log in to a container more than once a year to fix something, I’d figure out something else. My NAS is just harddrives on a Debian machine.

Everything I use runs either Debian or is some form of BSD

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