I've always used python3 -m http.server to get files from PC->phone.

For phone -> PC I use a library called droopy.py

I use simplex on my phone and simplex CLI on my computer. I just message back and forth. It's already giving me any notifications from my servers, so it's already there anyway.

Somehow, KDE Connect treats a media stream happening on a connected device the same as if it's playing on your local device. If you're playing a video on your laptop in Firefox it will add one of those "music player" things in your phone's notification shade, allowing you to control the video from your phone.

Android automagically pauses everything it deems to be "media playback" until the end of your call, thus also pausing that Firefox video on your laptop.

Yeah, kde connect can control media players on your desktop and automatically pause them when a call comes in. To make it work with Firefox I do now realise it might be limited to kde desktops only though. But if you have that, all you need is to install the plasma integration extension for Firefox (which does a couple of cool things) and then kde connect can see Firefox's media as well.

I use Droid-ify myself. It looks like Neo Store is a fork of it. Although neither has been updated for a number of months, Droid-ify's latest version is most recent.

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Also, gconnect is a Gnome frontend for the same software.

*F-real

Android auto copies numbers in SMS text messages to the clipboard, so any apps capable of monitoring the clipboard are suspect for one time security pin harversting.

Happens quite a lot in my country (Malaysia). People, especially the older ones, install apps form unknown source because their WhatsApp/WeChat friends shared them, then their online banking access got compromised, savings account emptied out, and there's nothing the banks can do because on their record, its the account holder doing the transfer.

Some banks now moved away from SMS and use dedicated app for this purpose now.

Cave Johnson, we're done here!

Funnily enough it feely pretty natural for someone speaking german (and some other languages). E.g. Konsole is the german word for console etc. Other words like Konqueror do look like a strange mix.

Unless the old programs are replaced entirely (or completely rewritten), I think the old naming system will be here to stay for a looong time, considering how established it is.

Sounds like phone link by Microsoft. Pretty neat, there should be a disclosure here or edit. You can't browse all of Android file system unless you root the device Google has locked down some file paths due to exploitation by the end user and attackers.

Could it be used to transfer files from linux to an Android TV box?

It's a Gnome shell extension if that helps.

Could you clap your hands to confirm you really love it?

How's the battery drain on it? I used to use it, but the battery drain was atrociuous af. I moved onto syncthing fork which made it considerably better but it was still so high that I just ditched the thing entirely. Mind checking now much % it drains in the background?

Wow, that's awesome. You're so cool bro.

I suggest the offline installer over the Microsoft Store version.

The option to share files via right click > "Send to" seen below doesn't appear for me using the Microsoft Store version.

Samsung user here. I'm working with a Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S7+ and a Dell XPS 9310 running Fedora. Set KDE Connect to never sleeping on the Samsung devices and it will work flawlessly. Transferring files, copy paste between devices, notifications etc just work for me. The only platform where I felt KDE Connect didn't work smoothly was my Windows gaming machine. I gave in and just used the Microsoft phone connect app for that machine but everything else it's KDE all the way.

Holy god. Thank you.

No like when I go to reconnect it when I want to transfer a file I need to go through the pairing process again because it somehow loses the pairing even though both devices still show each other as trusted.

It stays open on my phone with battery optimizations disabled, but the Windows app needs to be manually started from the tray icon after waking from sleep/hibernate for it to work. I've even tried setting up a scheduled task to run the app when my PC wakes but it just doesn't work unless I open it from the tray or restart the whole app.

Yeah thanks tips. I figured that out a while ago after going through way more trouble that I should have had to. Next time I need to use it there's a good chance I'll forget again and start the whole process all over because some dev thought an auto closing dialog that stays up for a fraction of a second was a good idea.

Thanks, you're the second person to reply with the same useless advice.

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For real though, I use mega for everything. I fucking love it.

Or try to come at the problem from the other angle and use something like tailscale to get around any potential networking issues.

Then use any peer-to-peer transfer app or tailscale's own file transfer tool and tailscale will ensure the fastest route between the devices no matter where they are physically located.

This, it works great. Also it's the future we deserve. Screw rational feature design for the common denominator, I want my phone to control my computer in every way possible and vice versa.

Yes, I'm just pointing out there is no tracking. Permissions are fine depending on context of what the app actually does

Awesome is a tiling windows mánager.

Ha, I tried to use it the other day the button just does nothing. Everyone keeps telling me to change the battery settings on my phone (which I did) but I think the app is just fundamentally broken. It tries to do too many things and is bad at all of them.

If you're talking about the clipboard feature working on the desktop version, I'll have to do dive into connect.

And vice versa - you can run commands on your computer from your phone. Handy when you're in bed but remember that you forgot to turn the computer off.

i am not on my laptop right now, but i am running ubuntu on a vm: and didn't know how to run kde after installing from ubuntu software store, and apparently it require usb debugging on android, although i would prefer wireless debugging: i even struggled to install the teamviewer .deb file, but figured it out afterall and had to figure how to run teamviewer, then after launch, i had to activate remote desktop, i had to install this rdp thing, and yet couldn't reach the teamviewer server. again, all this on the VM ( Vmware on windows 7) i am used to windows gui, so i took alot of things for granted, and the smallest task requires me to look up a guide for it, but kinda worth it, since i can't install win 11 since my laptop is too old and couldnt install win 10 since it required a different partition system, and after that it didn't install, so i am familiarizing myself with linux on vm for now

I like how you have mentioned your instance name in username to distinguish between your alt accounts