The honest answer is because I prefer making my own thing for my own exact problem over trying to make someone’s else tool do or behave in a way that it is not designed or made for, it is a bit philosophical for me but yeah, I am not willing to put all the effort into something that I see is solving a problem and making compromises and ignoring things in ways I don’t agree with, not to mention the UI/UX disagreements I have, if localsend was my thing, it would have been very different from what we have right now.

And also I am doing it in spite, this thing have been bugging me for years and no one is willing to put the time and effort to do it the way I think it should be done so I am doing it myself…

Unfortunately it doesn’t, Localsend relies on a WiFi hotspot or AP to transfer files, what I am trying to build uses WiFi Direct (aka WiFi P2P), these two are not interchangeable nor interoperable.

you are right, linux does support wifi aware although the problem is that afaik Wi-Fi chipset and driver support is still lacking behind so most people can’t really create aware networks (I just tried on my machine, I can’t)

Yep I am aware of it but The thing is Linux doesn’t support it yet and most android phones still don’t support it yet unlike WiFi Direct, so until that day comes WiFi Direct it is

Sure thing!

you are right that it does make it look like nothing more than an idea but honestly that’s fine by me and maybe I should mention that p2p peer discovery works right now and yeah that’s might not be much but well… we all start somewhere, don’t we!

Yo other companies can you just pretend it is Apple who is doing it so that you will copy this and announce it next day?

I tired kdenlive, openshot, shotcut, and some other one that’s very old looking that I forgot it’s name a few weeks ago (again) and kdenlive was by far the least frustrating one to use for me and the best looking one (imo), can’t really recommend anything other than it.

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