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I want a seamless linux ecosystem across all devices (desktop, mobile, tv, etc) but especially i want to see linux phones take off. Their openness, the privacy aspect, and the power user stuff that comes with kde is already awesome on desktop, and especially their integration with the desktop would be crazy. I think the potential is incredibly high, we just haven't seen it because the support is very early.
I've seen some of that just with Syncthing.
The ability to take a picture with my phone, and by the time I want to do anything with it it's already on my desktop. And that it doesn't go out to the "cloud," it's all done on my local machines, under my control.
that sounds sick! really want to set that up for myself, do you have any pointers?
Basically read Syncthing's documentation, it's pretty easy to set up. It's a peer-to-peer system, you install Syncthing on every machine you want (and it's available for basically every platform except iOS) and then you can introduce them together and set up shared folders. It can work across the internet, but I have it to work LAN only. My pictures folders are synced, so when I take a picture with my phone, it is automatically synced to my computer. I have my documents folder on my desktop and laptop synced too.
Uhm Android?
kind of what I'm trying to do with https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/offline-octopus but IMHO there are numerous better solutions, namely well supported protocols e.g ssh, UPnP, HTTP, WebDAV, etc.
I like the xr integration especially, its the one thing i forgot to mention