[Centigonal]

From the article:

What can this do? Using Valent (and KDE Connect), you can:

- receive Android phone notifications on your desktop and reply to messages

- sync the clipboard between your Android device and desktop

- control music playing on your desktop from your Android phone

- share files between your desktop and Android device, and browse your phone from the desktop

- send SMS from your desktop

- execute predefined commands from your Android phone to run on your desktop

- control your desktop's mouse and keyboard from the Android device

- browse your Android device filesystem from your desktop wirelessly

- and more

[skykooler]

There’s also an iOS client, though it doesn’t have all features implemented due to limitations in Apple’s APIs. However it’s still the most convenient way to transfer files between an iPhone and a Windows or Linux computer.

[harry8]

Signal "note to self" is another way.

[jeroenhd]

It'll work but that will upload your files to the cloud. If you're on cable internet or even DSL, transferring video files that way will take significantly longer than just using the local connection KDE Connect provides.

Of course, there are many local alternatives as well. I just can't see cloud upload features as an alternative to a local network transfer mechanism.

[sneak]

This ruins your images or videos via terrible recompression that you can't disable.

[iudqnolq]

If it's not private file.io gives you a handy qr code and supports <2gb

[rickstanley]

Telegram's "Saved messages" is another.

[rouxz]

Only if you trust telegram (you shouldn't)

[eitland]

Without context this is just noise.

Also when you say: don't trust Telegram, while not saying anything about WhatsApp, you are, on average, pushing people from a solution that isn't proven to be trustworthy to a solution that is proven to be untrustworthy.

Because unless you simultaneously point out that WhatsApp is worse, that is where people will go if they listen to you and avoid Telegram.

[heinrich5991]

I think in this context, WhatsApp is better than Telegram. In Telegram, you'd upload your files in a way that the server can see them. In WhatsApp, the server won't be able to see the contents.

(Even in general, I think that Telegram is no clear win over WhatsApp, and in fact I'd consider it worse in terms of chat message security.)

[sneak]

Telegram is not e2ee.

[JustSomeNobody]

iOS app does also support Samba.

I really with the Photos app did. I don't think a "Pro" phone is a Pro phone without that feature.