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F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by donio@lemmy.world to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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Is there a feature you've recently discovered in an app available on F-Droid that might not be obvious to casual users of the app? This is your chance to share it!

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I use local send and it's really great. When it works. Which is about 30% of the time. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I've seen heaps of people recommending it but it just doesn't work for me, most of the time I the devices just don't see each other when they are on the same network.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

If an individual device has a VPN active it won't work. Also make sure the network doesn't have AP isolation turned on.

Besides that I tried using it at work on their network and it wouldn't find the other device for some reason.

Besides all that, it works great for me

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it's intermittent and you're on wireless, maybe one device is on 2.4ghz and one is on 5ghz? Sometimes the networks are kept seperate.

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Should it work going between a wired and wireless connection?

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

This is all router dependent or course but the same default settings that prevent devices to communicate betwen 2.4 and 5ghz can also prevent a wired connection from communicating with a wireless device. It's been awhile and it'll be different for each router but I have seen that network isolation enabled by default on a router before.