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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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475 points snthd | 2 comments | 12 Oct 25 12:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source
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karmakaze ◴[12 Oct 25 17:09 UTC] No.45559827[source]▶
I was wondering what "the network" here means:

> To achieve this, KDE Connect:

    implements a secure communication protocol over the network, and allows any developer to create plugins on top of it.
    Has a component that you install on your desktop.
    Has a KDE Connect client app you run on your phone.
Looking further it is only for the local network (with ways to extend it e.g. VPNs).
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1. blooalien ◴[16 Oct 25 03:40 UTC] No.45601211[source]▶
> Has a component that you install on your desktop.

This is only if you use Windows (or MacOS, as there's also a KDE Connect compatible Mac app out there somewhere IIRC). If you're on KDE Desktop Linux, you're already good-to-go, as it's a pre-installed component of a typical KDE environment. :)

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2. 1oooqooq ◴[21 Oct 25 11:32 UTC] No.45654594[source]▶
not true for all distros. and this kind of thinking is really bad imo for network services.