AirDrop/Quick-share FOSS alternative to transfer files across cross-platforms (LocalSend): https://localsend.org/
LocalSend is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
It's free and open source, source code is here: https://github.com/localsend/localsend
It's best to use either Cloudflare (best IMO) or Anubis.
If you don't want any AI bots, then you can setup Anubis (open source; requires JavaScript to be enabled by the end user): https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
Cloudflare automatically setups robots.txt file to block "AI crawlers" (but you can setup to allow "AI search" for better SEO). Eg: https://blog.cloudflare.com/control-content-use-for-ai-training/#putting-up-a-guardrail-with-cloudflares-managed-robots-txt
Cloudflare also has an option of "AI labyrinth" to serve maze of fake data to AI bots who don't respect robots.txt file.
Most people are unaware that even open source projects have licenses: Permissive license, Strong Copyleft, Weak Copyleft etc.
Some resources:
Just why? AI browsers have serious security/privacy implications.
For e.g:
It's not true, you can check this article debunking this claim written by Gergely Orosz (Pragmatic Engineer Blog) : https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/
The racism against Indians is so normalized, trying to discredit and dehumanize Indians, it's horrendous! Be objective and have some empathy...
The software engineer acknowledged that AI tools can help improve productivity if used properly, but for programmers with relatively limited experience, he feels the harm is greater than the benefit. Most of the junior developers at the company, he explained, don't remember the syntax of the language they're using due to their overreliance on Cursor.
Good luck for the future developers I guess.
companies that've spent money on AI enterprise licenses need to show some sort of ROI to the bean-counters. Hence, mandates.
Can't wait for AI bubble to pop. If this continues, expect more incidents/outages due to AI generated slop code in the future.
Unrelated but relevant advice: Is this a refurbished laptop?
I use KeepassXC on my laptop (completely offline), export the encrypted backup copy and store the backup offline copy and in cloud. Also, I manually import the backup file into my Keepass2AndroidOffline android app (it's a hassle, but I'm okay with it)
But for normies (non-technical folks), the benefits and convenience of using a cloud-based password manager is far outweighed by any security vulnerabilities in such password managers.
Also, Bitwarden's source code is open-source (unlike other closed-source password managers), so I trust it more.