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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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475 points snthd | 1 comments | 12 Oct 25 12:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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nickjj ◴[21 Oct 25 14:59 UTC] No.45656654[source]▶
How well does this work for sending a lot of files without re-sending the same file?

I have a desktop + laptop + phone.

When I want to sync a directory with a lot of files I wrote a little shell script that uses rsync to do it. This does require running SSH on my laptop but I can invoke the shell script from my desktop.

Likewise with my phone I want to backup my camera photos, using rsync is nice here to avoid sending thousands of them over every time. I run SSH on my phone with Termux, it was really painless to set up and is only on when I run it. Likewise, I invoke the shell script from my desktop to do the transfer.

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groovybits ◴[21 Oct 25 15:03 UTC] No.45656715[source]▶
For this purpose, I would not suggest KDE Connect.

What you're looking for is something more like SyncThing: https://syncthing.net

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1. bityard ◴[21 Oct 25 15:20 UTC] No.45656926[source]▶
I use SyncThing on my phone to back up photos/videos on my phone to my NAS. The UX is not great, but it does sync things correctly 100% of the time. For years on end, I never have to worry about it.