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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: 0s | source
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sombragris ◴[13 Oct 25 19:11 UTC] No.45572177[source]▶
At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure.

I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with the latest Plasma 6 on Slackware-current and also in a standard Windows 11 environment.

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gear54rus ◴[21 Oct 25 13:42 UTC] No.45655713[source]▶
I definitely have a need for this, but I can't stomach same-network requirement.

Maybe they need self-hostable coordination server so that devices can connect to each other through it.

For now it's still 'send to telegram saved messages' for me.

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ezst ◴[21 Oct 25 15:54 UTC] No.45657330[source]▶
> self-hostable coordination server

What a long way to spell VPN :-) (been using it for a decade or so through wireguard)

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gear54rus ◴[21 Oct 25 17:49 UTC] No.45659054[source]▶
No, vpn takes over your network and you have to fight weird issues on different platforms. This seems like a square peg for a round hole.
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1. ezst ◴[21 Oct 25 18:36 UTC] No.45659760[source]▶
Not really? I mean, it's easy to set and forget which subnets get tunnelled with wireguard (and others, it's just that wg forces you to be explicit about it)