meme stolen

  • Esca@lemmy.one
    3·
    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.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year 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!

  • Ibaudia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

  • iloverocks@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    It is very nice but the officle app depents a lot on qt what is really anoing. It would be really nice if I could use a gtk version of it on hyprland

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • 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

  • 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.

    • EddyBot@feddit.de
      0·
      1 year ago

      you need to be on the same network which also means excluding VPN on local network (or connect both PC and phone on the same VPN network)

  • Reygle@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year 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.