Ah I see what you mean. I had to tap on the widget and then I could select my PC and eventually see my commands. Strange change for the UI/UX as it’s not very intuitive. A “tap to select PC” would be a lot more helpful than just a blank screen in the widget.
Biometric on my phone to unlock it (or PIN), but with KDE connect it’s just running loginctl lock-session/loginctl unlock-session to lock/unlock the PC.
I’m not sure. Are you talking about an issue on the PC or the phone? Did you perform any updates? What distro are you using? There may have been a major update that may have wiped your settings, but without more info it’s hard to tell.
It’s amazing and it keeps getting better with each update. I have it set up with a number of commands to remotely from my phone lock/unlock my PC, turn Bluetooth on or off, toggle night mode, start and kill certain apps, etc. It’s very handy to share links and files from my phone straight to my PC or vice versa.
Work. Software development is so much nicer on Linux and I grew to really enjoy the power and flexibility of the terminal. I started with dual boot on my PC and eventually deleted my Windows partition and went full Linux.
Many things have substantially improved significantly in the last 10 or so years such as gaming, drivers and overall desktop user experience to the point where I dread trying to use a Windows machine. Plus I’m pretty comfy now and like that I have full control over my machine when I use Linux vs whatever spyware MS is trying to shove down people’s throats.
The Arch wiki has some really good info on using dd for cloning. I’ve done it myself successfully with dd, but double and triple check to make sure your command is correct before continuing. Both drives would need to be connected to the same machine at the same time (new drive in a USB enclosure or in a spare PCIe slot)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dd#Disk_cloning_and_restore
It might be worthwhile to check out GUI alternatives to dd if you feel more comfortable in a GUI vs terminal:
Sounds very similar to the Elan School: https://elan.school/
It’s distressing that such schools and centers can exist and thrive.