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Best way to transfer files and messages between Android phone and linux laptop locally (no cloud)? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by Osm@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

You're welcome. About how much space was cleared up for you?

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 3 points 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.

[–] IzzuThug@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

On Gnome you can use GSConnect for integration with Gnome shell.