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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
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Mine is kdeconnect which does what local send does plus so much more.

  • using phone to control laptop
  • getting phone notifications send to your pc
  • can browse phone’s storage directly from pc
  • find my phone function
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Kde connect is great, iv always thought about using it but never got round to it as im current using a wm instead of a desktop environment. If i was to switch to a desktop environment kde would be my first choice as it has so many features.

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tun@lemm.ee
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I have kdeconnect on my i3wm.

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Shape4985@lemmy.mlOP
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Iv never tried it on my wm. Ill dow load it and give it a shot.

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jaxxed@lemmy.world
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It used to be considered a security risk back in the day. Maybe it just a security “unknown”

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Cralex@lemm.ee
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I tried the iOS beta until it expired. Didn’t know it ever made it to the app store.

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theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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I’ve had issues with it for file sharing, so far that I’m sticking to LocalSend, but I really need to explore KDEConnect further, as I haven’t explored the rest of its features.

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foggy@lemmy.world
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Wait kdeconnect is Foss?! Can I fix the atrocious gui myself?!? 😂

That application rules but it looks like butt on my workstation.

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TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world
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May I suggest valent?

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Max@lemmy.world
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I’m sure they’d welcome a pull improving the UX! https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-kde I think the implementation of the protocol is pretty well isolated from the UI, so pretty radical UI changes should be relatively easy

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djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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GSConnect works great for GNOME too.

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jbk@discuss.tchncs.de
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There’s also a still in-development rival for GNOME, Valent. And it’s a native program and not just a shell extension. I prefer it, and maybe it even has more features.

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Otter@lemmy.ca
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I found it to be more than I needed. I still have it installed, but use localsend more often

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