Sometime i want to send small messages between devices, such as a url, a note, a id, a token, a piece of code, a picture Especially send between phone and laptop.

Some chatting app have self messages such as telegram saved messages, slack (you), Microsoft team…

However i don’t want a bloated chat app that would took few hundred mb on phone, or required to install an app on my pc (linux which make many app broken). I don’t want work chat app too, because self messages can be seen and scanned by employer (yes, a security add on chatbot on slack warm me because i send something like password to myself on slack)

Something like Opera Flow would fit perfectly, but i don’t want opera browser.

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    Despite everything, Telegram is actually great. It’s only bloated if you’re using the features on the device, the client is opensource and native apps for any platforms, it’s very lightweight compared to other messangers and even to some dedicated solutions, it sends stuff p2p on the same network so you don’t need to care about the traffic, but also it allows for on-demand downloads so if you want the stuff will be available outside of your network.
    Alternatively, kdeconnect, but I find myself using Telegram instead 9 times out of 10, even though I have both installed.

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    SSH over Tailscale to Termux (all three free) using private-key authentication — two levels of e2ee, and fairly easy to use.

    For small bits of text, I use one of these, depending on the direction and the source device:

    • Laptop → phone: xclip -o | ssh phone termux-clipboard-set
    • Laptop ← phone: ssh phone termux-clipboard-get | xclip
    • Phone → laptop: termux-clipboard-get | ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip
    • Phone ← laptop: ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip -o | termux-clipboard-set

    For larger things, or files, I use scp. For other devices that I haven’t setup beforehand, or can’t set up (e.g. can’t run arbitrary programs), I connect to my phone’s hotspot, and use Total Commander’s Wi-Fi transfer addon for files (both of which are also free). Small strings I just copy over by eye and hope it goes well.

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    QR code reader and generator on both phone and laptop

    • Phone: SecScanQR
    • Laptop: ZBarCam and Zint

    But I’m glad to have learned about LocalSend here so I’m no longer limited to short text snippets

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        Thx! I made it for myself one evening when I needed to copy some passwords to my toy android before I managed to have cross platform password manager.

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    If you use a web email account, just create a draft email and don’t send it. Then log into your email account on the other device and read it there.

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      This is the poor man’s tech work-around and can indeed confirm it works lol. You are limited by your services upload size though so beware, you might find yourself having to do multiples and then it’s just starting to get inconvenient.

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        Yep… but if you are on iOS and Mac, copy and paste works perfectly fine and seamless. But any other combination is not good.

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          *If you have paid for newer gen and all of your iOS and Mac devices are compatible…

          FTFY, it’s a heavy caveat that makes 80% of their equipment dead unless you give it a second life with a different operating system. I’ve got perfectly decent devices that are bricks in their current original OS unless I get real technical with it. One I can double the ram capacity in it because for some reason apple throttled it’s size but the hardware is designed for more if you just tweak it.

          I wish apple was better about it and the device file transfers was just a staple thing that had since conception. Air transfer is a pain in the ass from past experience and works when it wants to, cloud syncing also works when it wants to even when telling it to update it now. I have a partner who uses apple almost exclusively, it’s so close to being something decent but I can never tell what’s actually going on with a device and there always seems to be some kind of weird hiccup in any process (like 25% of the time, still noticeable from being seamless though).

          (I have frustration from this, I apologize for my rant)

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    I use the note to self capability of my XMPP server to send a message to myself for these sort of one-offs. I would never want my data in the hands of some proprietary service if I have the option—sharing data just to yourself on these services also means it is Big Tech’s data now too. All of the XMPP clients are super lightweight.

    Bigger cases, I will use scp, rsync, or magic wormhole. Or just using removeable storage.

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      Idk why this is so low. Kdeconnect is all about sharing information between devices, url/file even notifications. It also has remote control and ping devices.

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    I use Beeper to aggregate messaging from various platforms and for easy availability of text messages on my PC. It has a specific “Note to self” section that I’ve found useful for messaging myself.

    At its core, Beeper is just a Matrix client with some pre-packaged bridges for common services (including SMS, MMS, RCS messages). You could probably do the same thing with an Element client.

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    I usually just use an email draft for cross platform transfers. MacOS/iOS handle this pretty much automatically and Linux has a good option (KDE Connect) but it sounds like you’re on Windows.

    Does Phone Link (built into Windows) work for your needs? I don’t use Windows often but I know they’re trying to make something sort of like the other OS’s syncing systems. Not sure how good it is.

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      Last I checked, KDE Connect can be installed on Windows as well. It’s not locked into the KDE ecosystem or even Linux.

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    I’ve been working with this issue for along time. Trying to find something platform agnostic and works with vpns.

    App wise, I suggest Localsend for files

    Information wise, I suggest Saladroom although there are several alternatives as well like ToffeeShare and ShareDrop

    I mostly use Signal though, as it’s the simplest at hand app which fairly reliably makes it accessible to my various devices… With the downside of storing it.