cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/55097116
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!
KDE Connect, for clipboard sync.
SyncThing for my own machines.
LocalSend for others.Is Syncthing on android still trustworthy? The main developers abandoned the project, now it’s a 3rd party that maintains the fork. I know it’s open sourced, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s safe now.
Try BasicSync on Android. It’s trustworthy as far as I know.
I sure hope so, been using the fork since before the official one was abandoned due to some improvements in the fork that saved battery life. But I guess no way to know in a small FOSS project?
LocalSend?
Second that. I use it multiple times a day, and have yet to run into any problems.
KDE Connect if you’re on Plasma, Syncthing for anything ongoing, and LocalSend for one-off files. All three stay on the LAN. I’d skip anything that wants an account.
There is GS Connect it you’re on Gnome.
LocalSend. Quick and easy to set up, just be sure to unblock the ports needed if you have a firewall running.
I run syncthing in the background to a folder in nextcloud, but when I need something instantly i use localsend
If it’s the occasional file, I really enjoy kdeconnect
Syncthing
I still use Bluetooth Share. For some reason it never works on Linux until I systemctl --user enable bluetooth.service? (obexd something something) Doesn’t need a WiFi connection and works with my company laptop.
I use Syncthing but a USB-C thumb drive will do the trick.
Here are a couple of sources that should help.
https://www.howtogeek.com/keep-linux-pc-and-android-phone-synced-with-gsconnect/
https://linuxiac.com/how-to-set-up-and-use-syncthing-to-sync-files/
I use FX.
