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Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by dadoum »

abcd_f wrote: post #12
voakbasda wrote: post #6

Mega-kudos to the author for chipping away at the wall around Apple’s garden. I have had a iPhone for 15 years, and I have only ever been able to back it up with iTunes on windows (as I will never buy a Mac). Apple’s refusal to provide interoperability borders on criminal. I wish there was a better option.

Have a look at https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice and iOS backup projects that are based on it.

Or idevice [0] (the one I prefer), or go-ios [1], or pymobiledevice3 [2]

[0]: https://github.com/jkcoxson/idevice

[1]: https://github.com/danielpaulus/go-ios

[2]: https://github.com/doronz88/pymobiledevice3

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by alex7o »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #3

I don't know. What's a feature not in KDE connect that the writer wanted and it didn't have? They could always submit a pr. Beeper exists you know.... I have a question. It's fine to build for your own self but is it okay to release something in public when the environment is a moving target and you are just a one-man team keeping it afloat? Wouldn't it be better to go behind established FOSS products and not reinven…

I would argue that if you have the same setup as the author then use it. Yes a moving target but won't you fix something you use for yourself? Also point an agent at it get it back working in a few hours of waiting :P

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by SadTrombone »

LinuxIsntVeryGo wrote: post #13
voakbasda wrote: post #6

Mega-kudos to the author for chipping away at the wall around Apple’s garden. I have had a iPhone for 15 years, and I have only ever been able to back it up with iTunes on windows (as I will never buy a Mac). Apple’s refusal to provide interoperability borders on criminal. I wish there was a better option.

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Nobody's asking Apple to provide anything. We just want them to stop sending cease and desists to developers who do provide said thing.

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by b40d-48b2-979e »

LinuxIsntVeryGo wrote: post #15
kees99 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't this[0] the use-case that is supposedly covered by LGPL? [0] copyleft-licensed library that could be legally linked into non-copyleft code base.

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Those poor multi-trillion dollar companies that can't use copyleft projects, whatever will they do?

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by Gualdrapo »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #3

I don't know. What's a feature not in KDE connect that the writer wanted and it didn't have? They could always submit a pr. Beeper exists you know.... I have a question. It's fine to build for your own self but is it okay to release something in public when the environment is a moving target and you are just a one-man team keeping it afloat? Wouldn't it be better to go behind established FOSS products and not reinven…

One of the not cool things about KDE Connect is that its "plugins" system doesn't seem like it.

Where are more plugins for it? How you add them? Where are docs for creating them?

I haven't had a great feeling when asking its dev about stuff but hope that situation has changed. Having a proper plugin system would let people like OP extend KDEConnect and potentially benefit more people, instead of being subjected to the will of its devs and the roadmap.

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by stackghost »

voakbasda wrote: post #8
pzmarzly wrote: post #2

> Personally, I think putting an interoperability protocol implementation behind a copyleft license is a little unfortunate! Huh, haven't thought of it. Just relicensed ancs4linux to MIT.

I love HN. Read an article that raises a reasonable point about a project’s license, and that project’s author shows up to announce they were convinced and changed the license accordingly. Repo was updated 5 minutes ago. It’s things like this that give me hope for the world.

Not to be Debbie Downer but software licensing has no effect on what matters to billions of people.

We are facing very real global and societal issues that people on this site are actively exacerbating, like disinformation and climate change.

If a dude changing an inconsequential text file on GitHub gives you hope for the world, then please broaden your perspective.

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by sneak »

voakbasda wrote: post #6

Mega-kudos to the author for chipping away at the wall around Apple’s garden. I have had a iPhone for 15 years, and I have only ever been able to back it up with iTunes on windows (as I will never buy a Mac). Apple’s refusal to provide interoperability borders on criminal. I wish there was a better option.

You could stop using iMessage and iCloud.

Re: Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

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Post by porridgeraisin »

I use whatsapp primarily, so no tethering needed, but SMS of course for one-time passwords and the like. I didn't want to open my phone for that. So I had a coding agent write an android background app for me that listens for SMS and forwards it to a discord server, and side loaded it. So now I get a discord notif on my laptop with the OTP.
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