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Title says it all. I'll go first:

I don't really have any on my computer (all I use that for is Vim, Firefox, and Git), but on my phone: Orbot (basically Tor as a VPN on your phone).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity can KDE Connect act as a Find My alternative?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure, because I don't really know, what Find My can do (I think it's an Apple app, right?) What you can do with KDE Connect is make your phone ring to locate it. You can't access the phones location. I hope that was remotely helpful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

remotely

That was funny ๐Ÿ˜€

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wish I could take credit, but I'm afraid I actually did not intend this pun. Thanks for pointing it out though, it really is funny.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly not as AFAIK you need to be connected to the same network as the device (at least on iOS)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if both devices were on the same tailacale network if this may work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can make your phone ring, but connect works over wifi, you have to be on the same LAN for the connection between devices to work.