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Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely

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816 points tosh | 3 comments | 17 Aug 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 1.026s | source
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alanbernstein ◴[17 Aug 24 18:03 UTC] No.41276544[source]▶
I realize this is a dumb question, but what's a good way to do this between an iPhone and a MacBook? Airdrop is disabled (by policy), iCloud storage is full (because I'm lazy), and I use syncthing on every other device, but I haven't found a client I can use on my work iPhone.
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tamimio ◴[17 Aug 24 18:04 UTC] No.41276563[source]▶
Mobius Sync. Works like a charm.
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keb_ ◴[17 Aug 24 18:07 UTC] No.41276592[source]▶
Möbius Sync doesn't sync in the background; you must have the app in the foreground for it to function. So, not quite a proper substitute for Syncthing, but may work for OPs usecase.
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1. Tomte ◴[17 Aug 24 18:20 UTC] No.41276676[source]▶
Of course it syncs in the background. It‘s just not instantaneous, because iOS severely limits what you can do in the background.
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2. 369548684892826 ◴[17 Aug 24 18:44 UTC] No.41276873[source]▶
Right, it does the best it can given the limitations of iOS, but "not instantaneous" can mean hours before synchronisation happens. When the phone's charging, or when the app is open, then it does tend to work almost as well as on Android.
3. keb_ ◴[19 Aug 24 01:20 UTC] No.41286990[source]▶
Weird -- at least when I tried it, I couldn't get it to work in the background. Maybe it was working, but not reliably?