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Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:44:26 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> I wonder, if I bought a bluetooth USB thingy and put that on my puter, |
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>>> would that help any? Since I hooked up my wifi router and it uses that, |
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>>> would that help? Or is the USB cable directly connected the best way? |
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>> Bluetooth is very slow for file transfers. I find WiFi the best |
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>> compromise of speed and convenience. |
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> Well, I tried it but it didn't work. I suspect I'd need a app for it to |
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> access it. It could get there since it said it exists but couldn't |
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> connect. I'll try to find a app later on. I'm putting out some raid, |
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> literally. Bug killing time. ;-) |
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Just for the sake of completeness, if you use a full-fledged desktop environment you don't |
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need any app, just the proper USE flags. At least on Gnome it's done that way, file |
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transfers are managed by the usual file manager. |
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But even if I set it up successfully I seldom use BT, USB is a lot more stable and faster. |
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