meme stolen
Better to avoid 3 k’s where possible.
The KDE Konnect Kult: Where acronyms shouldn’t be used.
☠️ bruh
The first time it paused my YouTube video inside Firefox when a call came in on my phone, it blew my mind. And then when the call ended, it just casually resumed the video. I love it. That, the clipboard syncing and easy sharing of files between devices make it absolutely awesome to have.
Especially the file sharing for me. I was previously using USB cable, but during large transfers it tends to just randomly disconnect (thanks MTP). Over WiFi I get faster transfer speeds and it doesn’t keep disconnecting.
Although yes, theoretically I could move .tar archive or individual files over WiFi using netcat and Termux, but that’s not the most elegant solution.
Also for some reason netcat is somewhat broken on Manjaro.Ok, the issue isn’t with nc.Ok (2) it is netcat. I just added a 2nd layer of issues that made me think it’s not.Edit 3: Ok. MAYBE netcat. I can see incoming connection in Wireshark and it sends back TCP RST. Edit 4: Tried with UDP, I can see the received text in Wireshark, netcat drank methanol.
I’ve always used
python3 -m http.serverto get files from PC->phone.For phone -> PC I use a library called
droopy.pyI 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.
Hey thanks for this suggestion, you motivated me to look into simplex a bit more than just lazily downloading it on my phone
Nice. It’s pretty great. I particularly like the multiple identities. I have one on my phone that only connects to all of my devices, and I can send notifications/code snippets/whatever I need between them. With the CLI app, you can even set it up to pipe messages directly to your notifications daemon, or automatically accept files.
That’s a great usage, I’ll definitely try that! Plus it’s seems actually usable by average Joes for quickly starting a private chat. Hopefully they’ll start packaging the CLI version for linux distros (idk why but I prefer downloading a package to using an install script), also I saw that simplex will release a desktop version of the app
I think you can already get the desktop GUI version. If I remember correctly, the installer script just downloads the appropriate binary to an appropriate path. The only irritation is that they don’t have arm binaries, and it’s rather difficult to compile. I’ve not managed to do it. Hopefully they’ll just release arm binaries soon.
Oh you’re right, I looked again and found the releases page on github, they have windows, macos (also aarch64), ubuntu, and Appimage for everybody else (x86 tho yeah)
I’m not really familiar with KDE connect (and new to Linux in general, but can’t see myself ever going back to Windows), could you elaborate on the first part? How does KDE Connect help you watch firefox videos on your phone? Thanks!
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.
Oh nice, that sounds cool. Not an implementation of that type of software that I would ever have thought of.
Pretty much like “continuity” between iPhones and Mac, neat.
Wow it can do that. I did not know. That is such a handy feature.
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.
F-Droid is the more valuable app store anyway. I always check there before Google Play.
Forged google play, use the aurora store instead
You guys are checking Google Play?
Check Neo Store. It is an alternative front end to F-droid and has been way less buggy for me. Though to be fair just yesterday it ate up 20% of my battery life due to not being able to sync a repo (I think), but that hasn’t happened before.
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.
I’ve tried droidify before it doesn’t seem to allow parallel download similar to that in aurora store
aurora droid is imo pretty good
Happy to stumble across this meme. I didn’t know KDE Connect was a thing
Well as one of today’s lucky 10,000, let me tell you it’s not dependent on the KDE/Android combo. There are versions for Windows, macOS, and iOS (although some functionality is missing).
Upvote for relevant xkcd
Also, gconnect is a Gnome frontend for the same software.
Same! I’ve already installed to my phone and will play with it tomorrow.
You will like it. Try it out.
And plenty of banking apps consider it as a security threat. 😅
“It’s so good that other apps are threatened merely by its presence”
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.
Hmm. I did not know that. Why?
Fdroid: am I a joke to you?
F’real
*F-real
It’s one of the reasons my next phone will be Android (with a non-spying custom ROM) instead of an iPhone. Although KDE Connect is already surprisingly powerful on the latter given the limitations of the platform.
The sheer amount of utility Connect has on iOS is insane. It’s starting to compete with handoff and iCloud sharing with how many features they’re recreating.
You decide on graphene or calyx?
I prefer graphene personally but not gonna shill. I’ve dailied both but they are both great. Calyx has a bigger emphasis on free software while graphene has a bigger emphasis on privacy, but you can still achieve most FOSS calyx software on graphene as well.
Graphene is better in every way objectively speaking. Calyx came at a time where Graphene did not have sandboxed Google Play and had many compatibility issues. So Calyx was a middle ground between Lineage and Graphene. However, ever since Graphene implemented sandboxed Google Play, it has every edge over Calyx besides the freedom ideology where Calyx usss MicroG instead of sandboxed Google Play. Despite that though, I would still push you towards Graphene as Calyx has a history of falling behind security updates for weeks and even months.
Also from personal experience, I don’t even use the sandboxed Google Play services on Graphene despite using a good bit of proprietary apps. You just won’t receive notifications from applications that rely on it. But it does not really matter to me as I still receive notifications on Signal and Telegram FOSS, as well as obviously phone calls and SMS just fine.
I prefer grapheneos and have ran it for some years now, but I would prefer to stay out of that debate as the calyx community and graphene community do not like eachother.
Like, even mentioning them in the same sentence will get both of their police on you and start a flame war.
As a Graphene user I will admit that the community is somewhat disapointing, and the whole war between the two started because of the Ex leader of GrapheneOS Daniel Micay. Louis Rossmann and Techlore have videos about it. Hopefully the communities become more supportive of each other since Micay stepped down.
at least CalyxOS does support older Pixel phones aswell as the Fairphone 4
of course from a security standpoint older Pixel phones are less secure but still way more than outdated stock android while also saving on ressources (money and ecological wise)it’s not complete black and white, there are nuances between which favors one over the other
Check out DivestOS
KDE Connect is awesome. I’ve been using it since it first came out (I think it was a GSoC project) with a variety of phones, and am 100% happy with it.
BTW, about the naming, KDE stopped the K thing around KDE 4, with apps such as Cantor.
About damn time.
Trying to find your way around an unfamiliar system where everything started with K was enough to put me off desktop Linux.
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.
How long I wonder until they phase out the k thing entirely? Becouse I love Plasma but honestly that can be pretty annoying
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.
Oh hehe, I had seen KDE connect here and there but never really tried it myself, how are you using it?? What good things does it bring to your lives? :)
It makes sharing files between your PC and phone super easy. And if you set it up right, you can even browse your entire phone’s filesystem from your PC as well. Great if you take a lot of photos or download a lot of memes on your phone and want to quickly offload them to your computer. It also lets you play and pause media from your phone, so if you’re playing music or watching a movie on your PC and need to pause while AFK, then it comes in pretty handy. Not only that, but it also has a presentation remote and can turn your phone’s touchscreen into a trackpad and keyboard; great for HTPCs.
Those are just the features I use, it has way more than that. imho I think it might have too many features lmao
EDIT: Also, how could I forget about the feature that I mainly use KDEC for, the battery indicator plugin. It lets you monitor your phone’s battery from your computer.
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.
Eh thats kind of obvious one. You can’t access such files from your phone either without root. He reffered /sdcard
I use it to share files between devices. I can also share urls between devices. Clipboard history is automatically synced between devices.
I can also use it find my phone if I misplace it somewhere.
It is also possible to run custom commands. You can shut down or restart your pc from your phone. My favourite is the screenshot command, after the screenshot is captured, it is automatically transferred to my phone. A really handy feature.
There is more. You can also play pause and control the volume of a video playing on your phone or on your laptop from the connect app. Your device can even be used as a touchpad.
Could it be used to transfer files from linux to an Android TV box?
Sorry, I don’t know. I don’t have an android TV box. Is kde connect available on the android tv playstore?
Looks like it is. Time to learn something new!
Thanks.
I have a cheap “remote” for my PC, so I rarely use it for media or couch watching, BUT
Take ~50 photos
Get home
Two or three taps
Now they’re all on my PC.
I use syncthing for that, don’t even need any taps after it’s set up. Did I mention I love syncthing? Because I love syncthing.
Could you clap your hands to confirm you really love it?
Syncthing knows I love it, it needs no proof.
He is happy. And I think he knows it. He must now clap.
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?
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I use immich on my server :) KDE connect is amazing tho
I live KDE connect, especially the filesystem share (it uses sshfs in the background).
And yes, it should have been called KDE Konnect 🤣
Kape, the K pocket environment
Google Play
Is that like Aurora Store for google cucks?
I had no idea what that was, but I just installed it off F-Droid and it looks sick
This is why I like Lemmy. You scroll through it and suddenly learn about neat free software you’ve never heard of, unlike Reddit where you would scroll through it and learn a new slur for an ethnic group you’ve never heard of.
It’s so good! Installed it once to try it and it never left my laptop. When they added the gyro mouse sensor it got even better - controlling my kodi mediacenter with it is just amazing like that. Also unlocking the screensaver without typing my password, fast even using over VPN etc…its just perfect.
I have used KDE Connect a couple of times (when I used Kubuntu), and always uninstall it because it provides nothing of value to me. I rather just reach for my phone that’s already on my desk.
That’s your first mistake, never do something the easy way when you could do it in a way that makes you feel like a cyber ninja
Pause/play/skip for music from the other room is nice, auto mute, phone notifications on desktop, etc… Even with my phone next to me, some features are still useful.
Love that app
