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Termux is great.

One of my favorite tricks is sharing a photo to it, then running a quick `python -m http.server 8000` while on wifi. It makes it dirt simple to send a photo from my phone to any local machine on my network without the hassle of cloud services (including generation loss from recompression), incompatible apps, bluetooth pairing, etc.

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Just use https://wormhole.app - it is end to end encrypted, privacy preserving and network friendly.

kdeconnect is great for this too!

Do you or anyone else know what the state of kdeconnect is on gnome? Last I tried it out it didn't work super well and the functionality was spread out among a handful of different apps. If you didn't already know what you were looking for, it was very difficult to discover what you can do.

KDE Connect is a standalone multi platform application, you don't have to run KDE to use it (I don't).

Installing the gnome alternative was one package and I killed X and started gnome-shell to test gsconnect it appears to pair and allow remote input from my phone to my PC and well enough, what doesn't work for you?

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/

It works as it should. I use two machines, one with KDE Neon, one with Gnome Fedora, and all my Android devices works great with both.

Look up Syncthing. I have it running on my phone and computer and I have near real-time updates of the gallery. I can even delete and add photos from PC to phone. (It's not limited to the gallery of course)

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