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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by bsder on Monday October 16, 2023 @08:55PM (#37908871)
The keywords you want for that file transfer are "Magic Wormhole".

Yes, it works on Windows, Linux, and OS X.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by foresto on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:18PM (#37909086)
Magic Wormhole is great, but sometimes unbearably slow for bulk transfers. (I imagine the public relay server used for the common NAT-to-NAT case is sometimes overloaded.)
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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by bsder on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:24PM (#37909149)
His comment was: "how do i transfer some file(s) between two computers in the same room".

All the problems with NAT traversal should be avoided in that case.

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Re:"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today" by foresto on Monday October 16, 2023 @09:26PM (#37909168)
Fair, but my comment is for other readers, too.

(Also, being in the same room doesn't always mean direct connection is allowed. I've seen wifi networks that forbid it.)

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