KDE Connect is the best! Also why isn't the app called KDE Konnekt 🤣

egeres , 10 months ago

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? :)

iguanajuice , 10 months ago

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.

nostradiel , 10 months ago

And plenty of banking apps consider it as a security threat. 😅

floppydisk , 10 months ago

"It's so good that other apps are threatened merely by its presence"

stark , 10 months ago

Happy to stumble across this meme. I didn't know KDE Connect was a thing

Reygle , 10 months ago

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.

ipacialsection , 10 months ago

F-Droid is the more valuable app store anyway. I always check there before Google Play.

SomeBoyo , 10 months ago

Forged google play, use the aurora store instead

AnonStoleMyPants , 10 months ago

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.

sinless , 10 months ago

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.

Esca , 10 months ago

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.

user224 , 10 months ago

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.

prole , 10 months ago

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!

TheChargedCreeper864 , 10 months ago

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.

prole , 10 months ago

Oh nice, that sounds cool. Not an implementation of that type of software that I would ever have thought of.

Ibaudia , 10 months ago

KDE Connect is so good that there is a user-maintained version that works in GNOME as well.

djsaskdja , 10 months ago

Better to avoid 3 k's where possible.

MrSnowy , 10 months ago

The KDE Konnect Kult: Where acronyms shouldn't be used.