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I just had to email me a file I got sent to my phone and I feel unable to accept this as the better solution.

What you do guys use for inter-device communication?

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

PC to phone:

  • USB cable
  • KDE Connect
  • Nextcloud
  • Syncthing

PC to PC:

  • USB drive
  • SFTP
  • SSH
  • Nextcloud
  • Syncthing

Phone to PC:

  • USB cable
  • KDE Connect
  • Nextcloud
  • Syncthing
[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

KDE Connect can do all three of these.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm aware, but some devices I use regularly like an iPhone, work computer, etc, are limited in their capacity to run it.