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@gathurian I just wanted to copy 2 links. USB was over-kill for the purpose.
Though, it would potentially work if I wanted to transfer files. I mean, if I wanted to transfer files to the device, I wouldn't need a USB drive though. Just connect it direct to the computer and get the job done. -
@shine I'd dare say Email or messaging, like Telegram probably wouldve been easier. But hey, of it looks srupid but it works, it aint stupid 🤷🏼♂️
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@gathurian Exactly. Funny thing is that I wanted to share those links to someone on Signal. My phone had Signal, but the machine I was using was borrowed and a sandbox environment. I didn't want to install or leave any traces of my activity on that machine.
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@SortOfTested too much work no? don't you think? all I wanted was to copy 2 links
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@Root Ha, KDE Conect.
That's something that I had on my personal machine, but I didn't think of in that scenario.
Again, this was a borrowed machine, not my own.
Using an app that wouldn't record any data ( and potentially keep even if removed; like Telegram for example ) on the underlying system was the aim; KDEConnect would've worked there. -
As @Root said, KDE Connect. It's beautiful, it just works.
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@olback I know, right? I just didn't think of it in the moment. :|
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@shine
Scp or rsync are too much work? 👀 -
@SortOfTested scp / rsync to a phone? how?
+ @hash-table
I mean, you did notice that I wanted to send only 2 links to my phone so that I could share it with someone, right? -
@melezorus34 pushbullet is a notification syncing thing right? I don't remember exactly, but I'm sure they didn't work with GNU/Linux
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@shine I just use the browser extension. Works on any OS.
I mostly use it to send links between phone and PC so I can continue reading an article on the go. But you can send any sort of generic text too. -
@CrashOverride that's only when you have the same app on both devices right?
If I was on my personal laptop, I wouldn't even have the need to send those links to my phone.
My laptop already had the desktop app which I could use; but like I mentioned earlier, this was a borrowed machine with not so much flexibility to do whatever I liked on it.
And plus, I needed to keep the traces of my usage to a minimum as well.
I don't like leaving traces of my usage on any other machine other than my own. -
@melezorus34 oh, that's a good idea too. though I think you mixed up the presentation of the idea but I got what you meant.
I think you meant to show the QR code on the machine and use my phone to scan and get the link. The machine wouldn't need a camera. -
@melezorus34 oh, but how do you generate the QR code for the link on your phone though? do you use a different app? or do you open up a website which generates the QR code? or is it possible by default from Chrome or some other browser? I use Firefox Focus, so, it isn't a 'feature' there.
Also, what do you use to read the QR code from the laptop? another website? -
Still, website.
e.g. https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/ -
@SortOfTested oh, dudette, if you were to login to a public server from your phone, then you might as well use `wall`. That's exactly what I did.
Why put in the extra effort of :
- writing your text to a file to `rsync`
- `rsync`
- reading the file to copy the text
- paste into another app
`wall` would reduce 2 steps for you, no? -
@pollux I wish I could just smash that ++ button all the way to it's highest limit of signed int ( which I'm guessing is the data type of the counter ).
This was exactly what I was looking for. I don't know how to thank you for this. You're the second person in the past week ( sliding window ) who has showed me something absolutely useful that I've wanted for so long.
And extra brownie points for it having a CLI tool as well!
I wish this was StackOverflow or Discourse where I could mark your comment as the 'solution'. Thank you so much. -
@shine 🤭
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@pollux don't tell me you're mat-sz, are you?
How do you transfer text from one machine ( laptop ) to another ( phone ) with no common tools ( Firefox Send spat out a long string of characters that I had no way of transferring either ) on either? Basically a clipboard sync.
There used to be this online notepad at notepad.cc, but that tool is gone away now.
How do you do it hacker-style? `wall`!
- SSH into the same same server from both machines ( this also assumes you have Termux or some equivalent tool for your phone )
- use `wall` to broadcast message from source
- copy broadcast at destination
- done
rant
ssh
hacker style
wall
clipboard sync