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Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

argiope wrote: post #17
red_trumpet wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, mostly works great. The only thing that bugs me is that passwords I copy from KeepassXC get transferred as well, but not deleted from mobile.

I was also concerned about having all my clipboard text copied to my mobile, but you can define a keyboard shortcut to do that only deliberately

please share the whole workflow. your comment has me excited

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by cyberbanjo »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #16
unstuck3958 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can confirm, though it's more like 5:1 hit-miss ratio for me (specifically for the copy paste feature) but that could be because of agressive battery optimization I do. I also use it daily for effortless file transfer, and so much more: it truly has enhaced my desktop experience to another level. For example, I can play a YouTube video on my PC and have it pause when I recieve a phone call - all without any kind of…

I have battery optimization disabled for KDE apps, itinerary, connect, neochat. That helps I guess and now that you mention it, it's the first thing on a new phone so I don't see problems. The auto-play pause also works transparently. I'd say the idea of marketing is important. If someone is using Linux, they are already in a niche and you kinda get to know everything. OTOH, a random windows user who is using it for…

Usually when I show DuckDuckGo to someone I start with the bangs, so if they want me to search Google, I show them that use !g in my query, then I do a few searches on other sites like YouTube !yt and Bing !b and Google Image Search !gis so they see what, to me, is the biggest selling point. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs?q=

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by donkeybeer »

unstuck3958 wrote: post #14

KDE Connect is a great piece of software. Everyone I recommended it to uses it almost daily. It makes me wonder about the state of FOSS software: there are plenty of genuinely good FOSS apps that can, in theory, be a part of a FOSS "ecosystem." But not many people actually know about them or use them. While I am still curious to know why this is, it seems like "advertisement" is still the greater predictor of softwar…

Thats because the point is we should not need an "ecosystem" in the first place in the sense that it is meant regarding commercial products. Everything is generic files and tools that can operate on them. No special "drmed/cloud app only file" or weird hoops to jump through to transfer files like iphones etc. You can use any tool you want to copy data or work on it. "Ecosystems" in commercial products are necessary because they don't want to make the data available generically so they build you special tools that only work with their stuff or make a deal to provide a limited interface with another company's product etc.

Edit: We use terms like 'js ecosystem' or 'python ecosystem' but that means a different thing from what ecosystem generally means with commercial products.

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by kej »

JohnBerea wrote: post #12
kej wrote: post #10

Worth mentioning that KDE Connect can run on Windows as well.

I tried it out on Windows 10 but the mouse input is so laggy it's unusable. Looks like this bug has [already been reported]( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440744 ).

Yeah, I probably should have included a disclaimer that not everything works as well as it does on Linux. I mostly use the notification mirroring and file transfers, and those have both worked fine for me.

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by mmh0000 »

butz wrote: post #20

Related question: what is the situation of getting photos from iPhone to a Linux PC? Is it possible?

If you use icloud, you can backup all your icloud photos locally.

Checkout icloud_photos_downloader[1], they have a docker container that is drop-dead simple to use.

I run this[3] about once a month, I could probably automate it, but that feel like it'll take more time than it'll save[2].

[1] https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

[2] https://xkcd.com/1319/

[3]

  #!/bin/bash
  mkdir "$(pwd)"/{photos,cookies} 2> /dev/null

  if [[ -z "${ICLOUD_PASSWORD}" ]]; then
      exit 1
  fi
  
  podman container run -it --rm --name icloud \
      -v $(pwd)/photos:/data \
      -v $(pwd)/cookies:/cookies \
      -e TZ=America/Boise \
      icloudpd/icloudpd:latest \
      icloudpd --directory /data \
      --cookie-directory /cookies \
      --folder-structure {:%Y/%Y-%m-%d} \
      --username mysuperduper@username.com \
      --password "${ICLOUD_PASSWORD}" \
      --size original

Re: Things You Can Do with KDE Connect on Linux

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Post by kevviiinn »

Scarbutt wrote: post #21
butz wrote: post #20

Related question: what is the situation of getting photos from iPhone to a Linux PC? Is it possible?

Or any other file, there are methods but not as convenient as airdrop.

I don't understand why someone would choose a computing device that traps them as much as apple devices do. Every time I've tried to get a file off of one, which is something so incredibly basic it should be easy to do, it's next to impossible without using their shitty iTunes software. Why can't a file system just be a file system? Why does it need to be this nonsense?

The last time I tried this I was mounting an iPod as a filesystem and everything had nonhuman read bale names and there were a bunch of weird formats.

Why on earth is apple so hostile to users?

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