meme stolen

    • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year 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@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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.

        • siriusmart@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          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

  • Esca@lemmy.one
    4·
    1 year 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.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

      • gears@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve always used python3 -m http.server to get files from PC->phone.

        For phone -> PC I use a library called droopy.py

  • tuxrandom@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Logster998@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • egeres@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year 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@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • feppidy@lemmynsfw.com
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Noughmad@programming.dev
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • hedidwot@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
    0·
    1 year ago

    Tbh it’s kind of a terrible app. I can never keep it connected and the UX is just painful. The most useful feature is transferring files, but when uploading to my PC the dialog box always closes itself before I can see where the file went.

    • Darorad@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s actually fine, those permissions are all for actual features, and you only need to grant if you want to use the features that require them.

      • WereCat@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes, I’m just pointing out there is no tracking. Permissions are fine depending on context of what the app actually does