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KDE Connect: How To Integrate Kubuntu Laptop and Android Phone

This tutorial will help you take benefits from KDE Connect one of Kubuntu built-in applications that can connect to your Android phone. It is useful to send files from phone to laptop and vice versa, and it is very quick thanks to it uses wifi connection rather than bluetooth, as well as a lot of other features. We use Kubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" the latest OS version of this year to give you the greatest experience. 

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2024

Forest Pattern

Updated This Past Day

  1. 'Linux Hint' Inactive for Two Months Already
    We'll need to get creative to find more news, seeing that a lot of the fodder is just "AI" cruft or cruft about "AI"

    New

  2. Links 31/07/2024: Facebook Privacy Violations, Microsoft Ads Full-screen Adverts to Vista 11
    Links for the day
  3. Gemini Links 31/07/2024: Ligature Integrated Analyzer and Putting Things Out On The Internet
    Links for the day
  4. "Microsoft Melted $340 Billion of Stock Market Value", XBox Sales Down 42%, and There Are More Bungie Layoffs
    In the news today
  5. Sirius Open Source Sank Deeper Into Debt, Has Run Out of Money
    The interest rates on overdraft are insane
  6. More Linux SPAM (and Anti-Linux FUD) in LinuxSecurity.com (Guardian Digital, Inc.), Not Even Composed by an Actual Person
    A lot of anti-Linux 'articles' on the Web may in fact be generated by a Microsoft chatbot, not actually written by actual people
  7. Links 30/07/2024: New Book on Bill Gates and His Special Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein, KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Progresses
    Links for the day
  8. [Meme] Windows/Client/Device Revenue Slump at Microsoft, GNU/Linux Up to 4.5% on Desktops/Laptops
    The media barely talks about this
  9. Microsoft Falls to Record Low in Norway (Windows on Around 50% of Desktops and Laptops, GNU/Linux Nearly 30%)
    people move to GNU/Linux in Norway
  10. Microsoft's Shares Fell 8%. And No Major News Sites Bothered to Mention Windows Revenue Collapsing, It's All About "AI" Vapourware.
    This is journalism?
  11. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  12. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 30, 2024
    IRC logs for Tuesday, July 30, 2024
  13. Microsoft's Client Business Falls at a Rate of Over 10% Again (the Usual in Recent Years), Microsoft Uses Smokescreen of Buzzwords and False Numbers
    Microsoft's client business (read: Windows) continues to tank
  14. IBM Layoffs by Return to Office (RTO): Making Workers Miserable to Make Them Leave, Not Receive Any Compensation
    This is also applicable to Red Hat
  15. Gemini Links 31/07/2024: Combating Malaise, Modifying Gemini Network Transport Protocol Specification
    Links for the day
  16. Headline Change: "Jeffrey Epstein Called Bill Gates His 'Brightest' Star: New Book"
    Seems like censorship by Gates (as usual)

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-25 to 2024-07-31
    2153 /n/2024/07/27/Slashdot_is_Acting_as_a_Spamming_Service_for_Microsoft_Apparent.shtml
    1110 /n/2024/07/27/Estimated_or_Educated_Guess_at_Number_of_Desktops_and_Laptops_W.shtml
    979 /n/2024/07/28/IBM_s_Vicious_Attack_on_CentOS_Has_Left_CentOS_Forums_Dead.shtml
    896 /n/2024/07/28/Meme_10_Days_Since_GNOME_Foundation_Admitted_It_Had_Secretly_Ba.shtml
    786 /n/2024/07/27/Why_We_Need_to_Make_Time_for_More_Videos.shtml
    700 /n/2024/07/25/Flashback_Microsoft_Enslaves_Black_People_Modern_Slavery_for_Pr.shtml
    679 /n/2024/07/27/Meme_Russia_Having_a_Field_Day_Seeing_How_Microsoft_Bricks_Its_.shtml
    670 /n/2024/07/26/A_Week_After_a_Worldwide_Windows_Outage_Microsoft_is_Bricking_W.shtml
    653 /n/2024/07/27/GNU_Linux_ChromeOS_in_Africa_Reaching_Record_Levels_for_This_Ye.shtml
    596 /n/2024/07/25/Techrights_Statement_on_YouTube.shtml
    592 /n/2023/12/01/New_Report_Provides_Numerical_Evidence_That_Google_Hired_Too_Ma.shtml

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