Phone Link is Microsoft’s late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.
This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.
It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to TRY TO work
ftfy, i wanted to give it a shot one time and it literally didnt work, at all. all of Microsofts cross device features are a hot mess, like how you are supposed to be able to share the clipboard between logged in windows PCs, never could get that working either.
No screen mirroring though 😕
Maybe scrcpy is the tool for you then.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Wasn’t MS “Your phone” available for 5+ years? I mean, I know KDE connect is since 10+ years, but how is this news? Change of naming?@b100dian @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Here’s the thing: firstly, There are people who don’t know things you do. if you already knew about this, this post is not for you. It’s for the people who were not aware of the dangers of using Microsoft’s alternative.
Secondly: KDE is not a news agency. Their main mission is to inform, sometimes of stuff that is old, but persevering in time, and often their posts will not cover the headlines of the day. But that doesn’t matter, because they are not a news agency.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social looks like they just want all our data… never enough!
Windows is turning into another spyware
Windows is turning into another spyware
Turning?
@woelkchen ok, it already IS a spyware
KDE Connect is one of the most useful app on my phone, and I can’t believe I went as long as I did without knowing about it
Same, I now understand the Apple fanboys, is fucking awesome when your PC connects to your phone and things works.
How does KDE work in regards to sharing content between computer and phone?
That would be one of KDE Connects’ main functions, yes. It makes sharing any kind of file (photos, videos, whatever) easy.
You can also share the content of your clipboard from your desktop to your phone and vice versa. So you would copy, say, a web address on your desktop, and you would be able to paste it into your web browser on your phone immediately.
I wonder if KDE connect could leverage the way Syncthing does device discovery and pairing
It works across networks, with no configuration
Apart from screen mirroring and sms that everyone has mentioned the proprietary alternative undeniably has more features. I don’t know whether it is phone link or link to windows but one of them has a feature where your phone can be used as a webcam over WiFi. As someone who set up ip webcam on my phone and used obs virtual camera through most of the pandemic’s online classes it’s quite useful and I’d like to see features like that just work and are not relying on mjpeg and proprietary software on the phone end. Their auto hotspot feature i haven’t gotten to work and i think is useless but I’m thankful that i don’t have to turn off kde connect when using samsung dex.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I only stumbled onto KDE connect in f-droid about a month ago.
It’s the fastest way to transfer large files from device to device.
I just wish I could show my phone screen on my old tablet.
@felichsdakatze@mastodon.social @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
you might want to check out droidVNC-NG to share the screen from your (android) phone via vnc
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.christianbeier.droidvnc_ng/there’s also avnc, which is an android vnc client
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.gaurav.avnc/@Rustmilian
That says works on Linux, Windows and Mac. I’m after android to android. Screen casting from phone to tablet essentially. Am I missing some fine print?In that case :
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/issues/100
https://gitlab.com/las2mile/scrcpy-android
https://yume-chan.github.io/ya-webadb
Alternatively, RustDesk.
Interesting that they bothered to make this considering KDE Connect already works on Windows
The only unique (I think?) thing about phone link is that it enables you to use your Android phone camera as a webcam, which can be handy if you don’t have a quality webcam. I think its only in the beta version though.
I’m not sure if this is a Pixel feature or if its available across all of Android, but there is an option when you connect over USB to connect your phone as a webcam - but that is of course tethered instead of being wireless.
Audio and video sharing would be really handy. I wonder if KDE connect might do this at some point
I’m sure it might stop working soon enough. For your safety.
@kde@floss.social why isn’t it called KDE Konnect instead of Connect?
Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power
@kde@floss.social
Not anyone know that KDE connect works on all devices, Android to android, Linux to Windows and all combinations.So no need to use something like a bad copy from Microsoft.
I’ll just leave this here:
Phone link is SHIT, it only works sometimes and never when ya need it to
so exactly like kde connect then
And it will never not connect even when you dont want it to
Based.
And yes, KDE Connect ftw
closed source - true alternative to KDE Connect - false requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work - true
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