Ideas on easiest way to share files weekly with older person who struggles with tech?

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  • Ampache

    A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

  • You could also go headless linux with apache and minidlna. Maybe even throw in some Ampache. Hell, even an (S)FTP server with an open source front end could do the trick. The amount of different, creative ways to solve this are endless.

  • syncthing-android

    Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  • Everything else, you can experiment with and change as you go. Syncthing is an easy and privacy-respecting way to move data. Kodi can present a familiar-to-fancy-TV-users interface for browsing media.

  • InfluxDB

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  • Kodi Home Theater Software

    Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

  • Everything else, you can experiment with and change as you go. Syncthing is an easy and privacy-respecting way to move data. Kodi can present a familiar-to-fancy-TV-users interface for browsing media.

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