• wile_e8@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      From reading the app description:

      Everything happens locally in the wifi network

      Does this mean devices have to be on the same Wi-Fi network for this to work? This looks extremely interesting as someone that runs Linux on my home computer, and the vast majority of my transfers are between devices on my home WiFi network, but I’d just like to know if it works elsewhere.

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    1 year ago

    Since the launch of the beta, Google says it saw over 50 million files transferred between PCs and Android devices.

    Can someone explain to me why google needs to know when I am sharing a file locally?

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      Because Google. I will say tho that at least during a beta it’s very normal for the terms and conditions to specify sending info about each transfer and also bugs…

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    KDE Connect - available for Linux, Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows

    A ported version is available for Mac.

    It supports to transfer files, clipboard, able to access/send SMS, use it as remote keyboard/mouse, pass terminal commands from mobile to pc and many more without Google.

    The peer devices should be on same Wi-Fi, that’s the requirement.

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      The thing with apple is once they release a feature that has been on other phones for ages, they release it as if they had just made the whole concept up “now for the first time users will be able to…” just doesn’t resonate with me if the whole core concept was already stabilised.

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    Is it just on my end or it takes about half a minute for the Windows device to detect the Android device, but not the other way around?