Asklemmy

43770 readers

1317 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Good way to send small messages between devices ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by hahattpro@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

68 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Sometime i want to send small messages between devices, such as a url, a note, a id, a token, a piece of code, a picture Especially send between phone and laptop.

Some chatting app have self messages such as telegram saved messages, slack (you), Microsoft team...

However i don't want a bloated chat app that would took few hundred mb on phone, or required to install an app on my pc (linux which make many app broken). I don't want work chat app too, because self messages can be seen and scanned by employer (yes, a security add on chatbot on slack warm me because i send something like password to myself on slack)

Something like Opera Flow would fit perfectly, but i don't want opera browser.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

SSH over Tailscale to Termux (all three free) using private-key authentication — two levels of e2ee, and fairly easy to use.

For small bits of text, I use one of these, depending on the direction and the source device:

Laptop → phone: xclip -o | ssh phone termux-clipboard-set
Laptop ← phone: ssh phone termux-clipboard-get | xclip
Phone → laptop: termux-clipboard-get | ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip
Phone ← laptop: ssh laptop DISPLAY=:0 xclip -o | termux-clipboard-set

For larger things, or files, I use scp. For other devices that I haven't setup beforehand, or can't set up (e.g. can't run arbitrary programs), I connect to my phone's hotspot, and use Total Commander's Wi-Fi transfer addon for files (both of which are also free). Small strings I just copy over by eye and hope it goes well.