Hi everyone,

I currently use Telegram to send photos, PDFs and text messages between my Android phone and my Debian laptop. It works, but everything goes through a third-party server, and I would like a fully local, privacy-friendly alternative.

What I need: Send photos, PDFs and other files in both directions (phone ↔ laptop) Send short text messages or clipboard content Works locally

Thanks for any advice and experience!

      • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
        10·
        2 days ago

        Thank you guys. I’ve been using LocalSend for a year or so, and recently I noticed it’s Documents & Data is over 1 GB on my iPhone.

        To me, that means that there’s some cache you cannot remove (the only way to clear that on iOS is to remove the app: I have just tried that, and it solves the issue).

        I thought KDE Connect is more bloated. Turned out, it’s just 8 MB; and it has the ability to clear cache. All my computers are on Linux (Gnome or sway: perhaps that’s why I forgot about the KDE Connect), and I thought hey, really, why not!

        So, as someone who used LocalSend for a long time: it does the job, but KDE Connect is just better, it turned out.

        • morriscox@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 hours ago

          You might be able to use War & Peace to clear the app caches. Make sure that you have less space than the space that the movie War & Peace will try to use. Try to rent War & Peace from the iTunes store. When your iPhone runs out of space, it will clear caches to try to free up enough space.

          • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            5 hours ago

            Wow, thanks, I first thought that’s some trolling (from you), but then I thought that’s some trolling (from Apple). Apparently that’s better than just give us the clear cache option.

        • MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          with kde connect and gsconnect you can use Nautilus to browse files over sftp. faster than mtp if you have a hight speed wifi connection. you also get sometimes useful features of notifications, sms message access and sending.