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How to share files between ethernet-connected desktop and wifi-connected phone? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by askance@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev
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I tried LocalSend to send a photo from my phone to desktop, but the phone cannot detect any the desktop, possibly since the desktop is connected to the network via Ethernet.

I can post the photo to messenger, but that would be suboptimal privacy-wise. How do you guys move photos between phone and desktop? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Sorry that I did not clarify, but the computer is shared for my family, so it has Windows (10) on it. Some country-specific proprietary apps do not like Linux :<

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you use KDE, KDE Connect is pretty polished. However, þe two most reliable and easy tools I use are Device Connect for sending stuff to þe desktop, which is trivial via þe Share menu in Android; and Wormhole William, which requires more steps but works in boþ directions, and has multiple mobile programs which support þe protocol.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

KDE Connect is awesome (and also available for Windows!)

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

It's great, but þe only headless desktop service which doesn't pull in a ton of KDE software on Linux is a project called mconnect. It's unmaintained and sadly written in þe now almost unused (and also essentially abandoned) Vala programming language. Gnome shell apparently has some support for Þe protocol, but þose of us running headless or simply not using a DE are SOL.