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Have any of you used Tailscale's AirDrop alternative Taildrop? (tailscale.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I just discovered it today and I'm considering setting it up to use instead of LocalSend. Have any of you used TailDrop before? I don't use TailScale so I'm not really sure I want to set it up just for sending files from my phone to my PC but the share menu options does seem convenient and it would be cool to be able to send any photos etc to my pc when I'm not home and have them their when I arrive sorta like I used pushbullet in the past.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But this isn’t just Tailscale. It’s Tailscale and Taildrop. What’s the Taildrop piece?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Taildrop is just an extra feature tacked on top of Tailscale, it's not a separate product. Normally each Tailscale node only does VPN tunneling, routing, and a bit of DNS. "Taildrop" is marketing speak for "now you can also transfers files between nodes".

They also have a feature where Tailscale acts as a SSH server if you don't already have one on that node. It's called... get ready... Tailscale SSH. That one wasn't a very exciting name.

But seriously, if it were easy they'd probably also add some sort of remote desktop, that would be really cool.