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  • toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.

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      5 hours ago

      The next level i kinda wish it had (because it already has about everything else) would be to have the phone screen shown in the desktop.

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        You should be able to achieve that with scrcpy (at least with Android). Never got around to test it myself, so I can’t vouch for how well it works though. My usecase for it died with installing a mini-PC in my living room, and now it would only be a curiosity for me.

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      14 hours ago

      The craziest thing I discovered when I started using it was when I noticed that because my desktop was now connected to my phone and my phone was connected to my watch, I could completely control the media on both from my watch and the integration felt natural - but also something I haven’t seen work that well in the proprietary world.

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        8 minutes ago

        For me it was, that the video i was watching paused when i got a call and repeated the moment i hung up. FUTURE (or apple ecosystem, i suppose.)

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      12 hours ago

      I wish I could send a whole folder of files at once with this, mine seems to only work one file at a time.

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        28 minutes ago

        workaround: zip the folder?

        i know it’s a little annoying, but it does make it into “one file” ;)