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!
This one beats any other option mentioned by miles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On Gnome you can use GSConnect for integration with Gnome shell.