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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work. (cdn.masto.host)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is there a port for M Macs? I'm missing it so much now that I don't have Linux on the laptop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
https://invent.kde.org/ruixuantu/kdeconnect-mac
https://asahilinux.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde?tab=readme-ov-file#on-mac-or-windows

Weirdly shows not officially supported on github.

Thanks for the other links!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They probably mean they don't provide support via the official channels due to the support being experimental, instead you'd report bugs directly to the kdeconnect-mac repo.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

What's preventing you from installing Asahi Linux?