wormhole-william VS NearDrop

If you want go, there is a magic-wormhole implementation called wormhole-william [1].

Rymdport [2] is a decent cross-platform app using it.

[1] https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

A more popular and, I think, carefully analyzed alternative, from which croc was inspired, is Magic Wormhole; a good Golang implementation that compiles down to a single binary is wormhole-william:

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases

Wormhole William, a slightly janky Android implementation of magic wormhole, for simple file sharing between devices. Mostly works!

use the go version (which you have to download from github) https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

And there’s wormhole-William, but as a derivative of the Python magic wormhole it loses points for originality.

If you want to encrypt files and upload to the cloud, rclone. Otherwise age and Wormhole-William.

> I wish quick share (né nearby share) was available on linux (even if via chrome).

I made NearDrop, which is a macOS implementation of Nearby Share: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

And of course, someone tried to reimplement it for other OSes: https://github.com/PlutoHDDev/CrossDrop

2. NearDrop

> So what happens is that I gravitate to other ecosystems.

I use a Mac but an Android phone. Android because I require the ability to install apps from arbitrary sources, including piracy. Mac because modern Windows is so contemptuous towards its users, and desktop Linux falls apart unless you know the intricacies of its internals.

Anyway, transferring files between the two was a pain in the butt that eventually grew so immense I reverse engineered Google's Nearby Share and made this: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

Though yes, I'm not North American so iMessage is just a non-issue to me. I don't know anyone who uses it. Anyone hardly uses SMS for actual messaging between people, everyone's SMS inbox is 95% OTP codes and various other automatic notifications. Literally everyone who I communicate with is reachable through Telegram.

Nearby Share isn't locked down and, in fact, works just fine with zero Google involvement. Google only needs to be involved for limited device visibility and all the phone number stuff that entails.

Here's the protocol docs I wrote: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md

I usually use NearDrop which is compatible with nearby sharing. https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

I don't necessarily back up my android to my Mac. I keep both environments separate, however, you can try this or this looks interesting but seems like some elbow grease involved

I made one recently

Not officially but someone did make this