Comment by easterncalculus

We’re supposedly mere years away from superintelligence, but it’s still literally impossible to just send a file between two clients without configuring intermediate network hardware or performing some hack to get around NAT (which can still fail and then require an intermediate server) if both clients are behind CGNAT.

It’s genuinely disheartening to see so many people here not even begin to try to understand how much we’re missing by not having effortless end-to-end connectivity, in favor of expensive cloud services. This literally used to be what the “Internet” is - we’re definitionally not on one without this.