Accidental Tech Podcast · Monday, July 27, 2026
The hosts discussed the perceived inefficiencies and slowness of macOS's standard file sharing feature, contrasting it with the smoother experience of using screen sharing for file transfers. John mentioned filing a bug three years ago regarding a checkbox that "does nothing" for remembering passwords in keychain, which has not been addressed.
“But I think screen sharing to another Mac and dragging files from the screen sharing window to your local Mac or from your local Mac into the screen sharing window. Is actually easier than using file sharing in the finder because file sharing in the finder is so bad and so inexplicably slow and so inexplicably terrible and laggy.”
“Like I filed the bug years ago where like I can't connect to my wife's computer as her through, uh, file sharing without typing her password every single time.”
“There's a checkbox that says, Oh, should I remember this in the keychain? Does nothing.”