Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • Mango@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ahhh but that’s the thing. A middleman being necessary is very against my values. I don’t want there being someone else or there limiting or telling me no. I’m not letting someone else’s DMCA compliance tell me what I can have. I’m also not really interested in non FLOSS.

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      6 months ago

      You should be able to just use ssh/sftp. There are lots of great clients, and you can absolutely still use usernames and passwords, no public/private key stuff required. You can even use ssh and scp right from powershell on Windows boxen if you’re so inclined. There’s winscp, and if you want filesystem mounting, there’s this: https://github.com/winfsp/sshfs-win
      For macos and Linux, the options are far more plentiful.

      Edit: there’s also file pizza, which is a file transfer thingy with no middle man that’s open source, although it’s not copyleft AFAICT: https://github.com/kern/filepizza
      and similar tools. Not really what you’re after, I just think it’s neat.

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        6 months ago

        It’s probably been 15 years since I used ssh. I’m gonna guess there’s better UI for it now, or at least a UI at all.

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          6 months ago

          There are definitely a lot of good options out there. What are you using right now for regular old FTP? The odds are actually pretty good that it already supports SFTP. A lot of file management applications do both and lump them together, even though they’re completely different protocols (sftp is from the late nineties).

          If it doesn’t, then I don’t know what OS you’re using, so I’ll just recommend options for the big 3. For Windows, there’s WinSCP. For MacOS there’s Cyberduck. Most file managers on Linux distros let you just type sftp://me@wherever in the navigation bar, meaning you get a totally seamless experience with the rest of your FS.

          EDIT: or, you can use sshfs-win on Windows and have your remote filesystem show up as a regular ol’ drive, just like SMB. MacOS and Linux have sshfs, and I know there are GUIs wrapping sshfs on those platforms. I personally use sshfs at home and it’s great (although no GUI wrapper, I’m a weirdo who doesn’t use a graphical file manager at all).

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            6 months ago

            Oh I don’t have a computer right now. I got reamed by the law over a lie from a road rager and lost everything.

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              6 months ago

              :( I’m sorry to hear that. Well, for Android there’s MaterialFiles, which is fully FLOSS and supports FTP, SFTP, and SMB. Not sure about iOS, but I imagine there are options there.

              I hope that your journey through life becomes a little less rocky.