KDE Connect
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Extremely useful Open Source Linux ecosystem tool from KDE folks, though Mac and Windows can use it too. Allows connected devices to:
- Receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer and reply to messages
- Control music playing on your desktop from your phone
- Use your phone as a remote control for your desktop
- Run predefined commands on your PC from connected devices.
- Check your phone's battery level from the desktop
- Ring your phone to help find it
- Share files and links between devices
- Browse your phone from your desktop
- Control the desktop's volume using your phone
- Send SMS from your desktop
Only major limitation is LAN or Bluetooth requirement; so unless the user is spoofing, there's no remote connectivity.
Useful either way, still buggy though.
Works across:
- Desktop computers
- Mobile devices
- Portable gaming devices