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.

KDE Connect Link

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

This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?

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.

For some reason, I just can't get my Kubuntu desktop and Android phone to talk to each other with this. It does weirdly connect just fine on Arch/EndeavourOS, though.

Absolutely LOVE syncthing. I recently had to go on an emergency trip and was glad I set up syncthing on my phone but hated that I didn't set it up properly on my laptop.

Does it backup photos on iOS yet?

Syncthing has been a wonder to discover. Basically replaced any desire for me to rely on the cloud.

I'd love to use this but I just mostly don't use multiple devices at the same time, so I don't see how the sync would ever happen.

I always read it as "Forge-Go," for some reason...

I love LocalSend, the only downside is that both devices must be on the same network. So it won't work for sending a file to someone else at a bar.

Unfortunately, its not reliable. For large media files it gets stuck. Also, sometimes the local server is not discoverable on the other end. Even though I tried the troubleshooting step.

I had tested with windows and android so it could be different on Linux.

LocalSend link

Looks awesome. Found it for Android on fdroid.

Local send has worked really poorly for me, and so has every program similar to it open source or not. The only network file sharing program that has always worked (mostly) floorlessly for me is AirDrop.

Been using it for a long time, it's great!

I like pairdrop more, because i can use it e. G. to send files to my university working pc

IMO, this is the way to play Chess online.

Yea, when chess.com started limiting engine analyses to 1 per day I jumped ship to lichess and never looked back.

Lichess got me back into chess after many years.

Also shoutout to Tubular which is the same thing, but with SponsorBlock for youtube

I didn't know it could client for Bandcamp and Soundcloud too! That's so cool!

Like licensing issues?

Also MeshCentral.

A TeamViewer shooter coming out to downvote you lol

Do you know if RustDesk is a fully open-source project? I don't get their pricing plan idea for Self-Hosted. It also doesn't seem to be packaged for Debian or Ubuntu. Is it really, fully, developed in the open as an open-source project?

btw this is powerful. i recently upgraded to Joplin from using colornotes. there's so much you can do and a ton of QoL things they've added that make organizing and searching notes much easier.

Joplin is awesome and I wish I'd known about it sooner.

I've tried it for a long time, and it's the best note-taking program, especially if you run the sync server yourself.

Can't live without Joplin anymore. Just being in control of your own stuff and so useful on many devices. Next step for Joplin: make todo/tasks even better, for instance by making a connection with todo.txt possibly (another open source set of apps I came to love deeply).

lol did they really make it paid on ios