Snapdrop
Browser-based file sharing between nearby devices, no install or signup
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Linux users with iPhones get a native AirDrop path at last, as long as their Wi-Fi card is on the supported list.
Owly speaks AWDL, the peer-to-peer Wi-Fi protocol Apple devices use for AirDrop, so a Linux machine can show up as an AirDrop target. A small privileged daemon, owlyd, takes over the Wi-Fi card and hands an awdl0 interface to the unprivileged AirDrop side. Written in Rust, MIT-licensed, packaged for Arch, NixOS, Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. Hardware is the catch: many cards are listed as unreliable or failing, and shared mode needs your router on channel 6, 44 or 149.
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