Someone mentioned it in a comment and I genuinely didn’t know what I was setting up, but its basically airdrop but to all your devices/servers so if you have an iphone like me you can goto any photo/file click share, taildrop, then pick the device, its a prettty fast transfer. It shows up in the downloads folder on my pc by default.
I no longer have to upload to icloud files to grab my files, it is very convenient and seems to be free forever for personal use up to 100 devices? I had no idea what I was even setting up til I saw the guide afterwards, I thought it was for monitoring server health, but it’s made sharing files between devices/servers very convenient. (this was likely obvious, just wanted to share with others who didn’t know)
I use snapdrop/pairdrop for quick and easy file transfers, but I found transfers to be quite slow, so this may be an alternative for larger files.
I use KDE Connect for laptop to desktop transfers.
For a second there I thought you’d genuinely connected all your devices to a service you didn’t know the first thing about 😄
TIL Taildrop is a new(ish?) Tailscale feature that adds airdrop-alike transfer to your tailnet.
I know it’s not the same but I’ve been using syncthing on a Nas to sync files. Don’t really have a tool for file transfers though.
You can also use something called wormhole. Very handy tech.
Also portal which is LAN aware.
