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Re: Windows can't take cartooning screenshots due to security policy with Android

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 03:03:01 -0400, Paul wrote :


> Some of the advertising material is just hilarious.

Thanks Paul for helping out, as what I want to do, billions of people must
want to do, which is simply copy a photo from Windows to the iOS device
(without needing to put that photo on an Internet server somewhere).

For obvious reasons, I abhor the insecure iTunes bloatware abomination.
And, due to the effort, I don't want to go to all the trouble of setting up
iFuse (either inside of WSL or via a grub-based dual boot with the PC).

There's no reason I should need to create an Internet account on the
Microsoft Servers (or any server) just to copy a photo two feet to the PC.

> It's going to be 75KB/sec, which is hectic, isn't it :-)

I think the only way to do copy a photo to Linux is via a bluetooth or
Wi-Fi server, which is fine by me if only I could find one that works.

As you can tell, Feem won't work because it can't be downloaded for Windows
without having a Windows account, and I don't want any mothership accounts.

It would be helpful if we can download feem WITHOUT a M$ account.
 <https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrdsfg0?hl=en-US&gl=US>

> I think hectic means, the writer did not get to sell you something.

Since all I want to do is transfer a single photo from Windows to the iOS
device, it's fine to use the "hectic" bluetooth or Wi-Fi protocols.

As long as the photo stays on the local network, either is fine for me.

> Any protocol ("Feem") which is only available for Apps, and a win32
> does not exist, makes me immediately suspicious.

There are free apps to copy over Wi-Fi for videos, for example, where I've
used VLC to transfer a full-length movie using VLC's own HTTPS server.

I simply need to find a BT/Wi-Fi app that does the same for photos.
 *How to copy a photo from Windows to iOS without needing Internet servers*
 <https://comp.mobile.ipad.narkive.com/AjZhDi9j/how-to-copy-a-photo-from-windows-to-ios-without-needing-internet-servers>


> Fsquirt by the way, is pretty clunky. You have to enable Receive on the
> receiving end, before starting the transmit end. I've used it a few times,
> where I needed to keep a Win machine isolated from Ethernet, and I was
> sending over a 3KB config file. Worked fine for that.

Hmm. Fsquirt? Never heard of it. Lemme' look for it to see what it does.
Oh. Now I remember. You've mentioned the Windows "fsquirt" command before.

Looking it up, I find this which may mean Apple has disabled fquirt use.
  "The fsquirt command is specifically designed for Bluetooth file 
   transfers, but iOS devices, while having Bluetooth, don't typically
   use bluetooth for file transfers in the same way as Windows does."

> This is all done via Bluetooth menus (maybe in the taskbar lower right).
> I only know it as fsquirt.exe , by seeing it in Task Manager or
> seeing it in Linux "top" or the like. I don't know what the actual
> profile name for that transfer mode is.

I looked this up and I think Apple is way ahead of us in eliminating the
use of Bluetooth for file transfers. Here's a direct quote of how it works.
  "Apple's iOS has strict limitations on Bluetooth file transfers. 
   iOS primarily uses Bluetooth for connections with peripherals like 
   headphones or keyboards, and not for general file sharing in the 
   same way that some other operating systems do."

While Bluetooth file transfers are likely blocked by Apple (on purpose), 
what may work is SMB, HTTPS, WebDav, or USB file transfers though.

There's also something called "Apple Devices app for Windows" which looks
suspiciously like a renamed trojan for Apple's defunct iTunes abomination.
 <https://support.apple.com/guide/devices-windows/install-the-apple-devices-app-mchl5ded2763/windows>
 <https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9np83lwlpz9k?hl=en-US&gl=US>
 Name: Apple Devices Installer.exe
 Size: 1096224 bytes (1070 KiB)
 SHA256: 695EC05F9123AB9B0A3F248EA04835018DF4DF05A18BFFBBCE5CC4692F6F9437

This is a stub installer but it seems to download the 200MB installer file.
I couldn't find WHERE it put the 200MB installer file though, so I'll get
back to this iTunes imposter if, at the end, nothing else seems to work.

The sad thing is all I'm trying to do is copy a single photo from Windows
to an iOS device without needing to put that photo onto the Internet first.

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