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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

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[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

Phone link is SHIT, it only works sometimes and never when ya need it to

[-] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

so exactly like kde connect then

[-] calamity_joe@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

And it will never not connect even when you dont want it to

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