Starting with 0 and transferring files via ssh means you are a special kind of animal.

I mean, we're literally on Hacker News.

Circle is not complete until I see a suggestion on how you can replace iCloud with mashup scripting of sftp/rsync and cronjobs.

No, the circle is not complete until an article is posted about how a 15 year old cobbled together a website/app combo that did it automatically and grew to a few million users overnight; Apple hired the kid, killed the app, and wrote a new layer of signed security into iOS that would prevent anything like that from working again; and that layer was responsible for the last iCloud outage because somebody at Apple accidentally let a certificate expire.

Those can't replace iCloud because they are free. Write the sftp/rsync script and then throw money in the garbage to accurately replace iCloud.

s/iCloud/Dropbox/g

Here on HN, mentioning Dropbox makes the circle complete.

What sorts of files are you transferring? For things like PDFs or videos I normally use something like https://file.pizza.

Is there some trick to make file.pizza work? I'm leaving the tab open and trying on various different devices, but it just stays at Peers: 0 and nothing downloads.

I would guess your network is blocking WebRTC. Are you at work?

While I do have WebRTC blocking on this computer, I tried sharing from other devices and networks too, chrome and firefox and mobile versions. According to [1]&[2] WebRTC UDP and TCP are enabled, relay/reflexive/host connectivity.

[1] https://www.expressvpn.com/webrtc-leak-test [2] https://test.webrtc.org/

That's an awesome thanks for mentioning it.

Does that compete at all speed-wise with just plugging it into your computer via USB? I guess your local network should be fairly fast, but I would think that USB would still be faster (not to mention that you wouldn't need to find the right file from the terminal).

Copying files over USB is ludicrously slow and requires cross-device trust and exposure to dirty USB.

Let's not deceive ourselves: Apple deliberately cripples standardised data exchange mechanisms to push iCloud and aht Apple ecosystem.

> plugging it into your computer via USB

wires

>wires

and dongles. It's IOS device after all.

The files app on ios works with smb. . . it's not sftp but it works.

Even with SMB, it is very painful to use - you can't create bookmarks and if a connectivity test fails to the server - it gets removed from the list and you have to add it back again.

Not sure but I think moving files within the same share also takes a round-trip to the iPhone.

I'm still not sure why we didn't get a normal file browser from the start. It is a solved problem and everything rolled out for ios has been a regression.

You might like the Shellfish app

How do you browse smb shares?

ssh is fine, but you could also use syncthing which is about 500% more user friendly

Not on iOS you can’t. :(