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    [โ€“] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The first time it paused my YouTube video inside Firefox when a call came in on my phone, it blew my mind. And then when the call ended, it just casually resumed the video. I love it. That, the clipboard syncing and easy sharing of files between devices make it absolutely awesome to have.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Especially the file sharing for me. I was previously using USB cable, but during large transfers it tends to just randomly disconnect (thanks MTP). Over WiFi I get faster transfer speeds and it doesn't keep disconnecting.

    Although yes, theoretically I could move .tar archive or individual files over WiFi using netcat and Termux, but that's not the most elegant solution. ~~Also for some reason netcat is somewhat broken on Manjaro.~~ ~~Ok, the issue isn't with nc.~~ Ok (2) it is netcat. I just added a 2nd layer of issues that made me think it's not.

    Edit 3: Ok. MAYBE netcat. I can see incoming connection in Wireshark and it sends back TCP RST. Edit 4: Tried with UDP, I can see the received text in Wireshark, netcat drank methanol.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    I've always used python3 -m http.server to get files from PC->phone.

    For phone -> PC I use a library called droopy.py

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I use simplex on my phone and simplex CLI on my computer. I just message back and forth. It's already giving me any notifications from my servers, so it's already there anyway.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Hey thanks for this suggestion, you motivated me to look into simplex a bit more than just lazily downloading it on my phone

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Nice. It's pretty great. I particularly like the multiple identities. I have one on my phone that only connects to all of my devices, and I can send notifications/code snippets/whatever I need between them. With the CLI app, you can even set it up to pipe messages directly to your notifications daemon, or automatically accept files.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That's a great usage, I'll definitely try that! Plus it's seems actually usable by average Joes for quickly starting a private chat. Hopefully they'll start packaging the CLI version for linux distros (idk why but I prefer downloading a package to using an install script), also I saw that simplex will release a desktop version of the app

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think you can already get the desktop GUI version. If I remember correctly, the installer script just downloads the appropriate binary to an appropriate path. The only irritation is that they don't have arm binaries, and it's rather difficult to compile. I've not managed to do it. Hopefully they'll just release arm binaries soon.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Oh you're right, I looked again and found the releases page on github, they have windows, macos (also aarch64), ubuntu, and Appimage for everybody else (x86 tho yeah)

    [โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I'm not really familiar with KDE connect (and new to Linux in general, but can't see myself ever going back to Windows), could you elaborate on the first part? How does KDE Connect help you watch firefox videos on your phone? Thanks!

    [โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Somehow, KDE Connect treats a media stream happening on a connected device the same as if it's playing on your local device. If you're playing a video on your laptop in Firefox it will add one of those "music player" things in your phone's notification shade, allowing you to control the video from your phone.

    Android automagically pauses everything it deems to be "media playback" until the end of your call, thus also pausing that Firefox video on your laptop.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    Oh nice, that sounds cool. Not an implementation of that type of software that I would ever have thought of.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Pretty much like "continuity" between iPhones and Mac, neat.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Wow it can do that. I did not know. That is such a handy feature.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, kde connect can control media players on your desktop and automatically pause them when a call comes in. To make it work with Firefox I do now realise it might be limited to kde desktops only though. But if you have that, all you need is to install the plasma integration extension for Firefox (which does a couple of cool things) and then kde connect can see Firefox's media as well.