I ended up with having two problems:

• my iPhone has too much of empty space (over 70 GB right now)
• I didn’t find the war and peace you meant (I assume that should be free and huge), only some songs for money

So I gave up on the task. All I need is to clear cache from built-in apps, like voice memos, as deleting them does not help. Deleting the AppStore app helps, it cleans the cache.

Wow, thanks, I first thought that’s some trolling (from you), but then I thought that’s some trolling (from Apple). Apparently that’s better than just give us the clear cache option.

This is the way.

I’m not sure about the MS (which I hate as the next guy), but the point is, it’s what works. You can replace Tailscale with Headscale or NetBird, or even just WireGuard.

FYI it works on anything. I hosted it on a Raspberry Pi 1B (the very first one, it’s slow shite), and now I host it on an Orange Pi Zero. It’s not as slow, but it’s not too powerful either. Both devices are plenty for this project.

Recently, someone hosted it on a ESP32 or something. Not giving the link, simply because I don’t know which one is the genuine one. I use the project for close to a decade and it’s just works, mostly.

Thank you guys. I’ve been using LocalSend for a year or so, and recently I noticed it’s Documents & Data is over 1 GB on my iPhone.

To me, that means that there’s some cache you cannot remove (the only way to clear that on iOS is to remove the app: I have just tried that, and it solves the issue).

I thought KDE Connect is more bloated. Turned out, it’s just 8 MB; and it has the ability to clear cache. All my computers are on Linux (Gnome or sway: perhaps that’s why I forgot about the KDE Connect), and I thought hey, really, why not!

So, as someone who used LocalSend for a long time: it does the job, but KDE Connect is just better, it turned out.

Massive of massives, what do you think?

I made a rewatch somewhat recently, right before the 4th part was released. And honestly, I don’t even remember my impression. All I remember is some mix of a disappointment, but I had my expectations very low. Watching the 2nd and 3rd films in my childhood, I hated them, so worse (and somewhat complicated) they were in comparison to the 1st one. However, this time, being much older and all, I was surprised they’re not as ass as I remembered them. I’d call them ok, just good enough, but surely worse than the 1st one, the undoubted masterpiece.

Oh, thanks! Now I see how the rabbity the hole is! NixOS alone would make it pretty deep …

Do you mind sharing the rabbit hole? I tried to search NASty too, but it looks like the result is mostly porno or other irrelevant shit.

Well, I guess everyone had their abusive relationships in their lives at least once. Those abused (used Windows, in this instance) are tend to fall into another abusive relationships, unfortunately. Until they work through their problems.

That said, I’m happy you’re better (and not on Windows, yay!) Now, I sincerely wish you to find a loving and caring partner—

Ok, on a serious note, I can believe you that Kubuntu can be fine too, but I don’t understand why, if you can use a system that respects you. Say, even Debian. Or any other one. On the other hand, if it works, why break it. But I won’t sincerely recommend that to anyone new these days. Go with CachyOS or Fedora or Pop_OS! instead.

Kubuntu gives me some 2000s vibes when I did try it too, off the disks they were sending me for free. (Thanks for that, Canonical.)

Save yourself some time and just use Fedora instead. I’m seriously surprised someone still tries Kubuntu in 2026, and that it’s still alive.

I use Sway, and I really love it for the absolute simplicity you can make it. Yet, I do enjoy Gnome so much that I think — pretty often! — to just switch to Gnome. Some time ago, I even had a dedicated computer at our workshop office. It was a low specced machine with 4 GB ram. Gnome was good for most tasks. I have just 4 GB ram at home, and updating Gnome to latest Fedora 45 (meaning Gnome 51? Forgot the number), I’ve got an impression it became even faster! I mean, 4 GB ram, and most times I don’t notice!

Impressive work everyone, I really love Gnome. (Coming from almost a decade with macOS.)

I’m sorry to break this, but would love someone to educate me here, pretty please!

I still don’t get it why would I want it over Arch.

Edit: wow, so many great replies! Thank you guys!

Well, not exactly the proper replacement, but you can try. I would be curious to learn how it went for you. For me, that worked (I barely touch iPad), for my wife didn’t, she uses iPad mostly.

Yeah, I shouldn’t have been lazy, and might write that ‘if you need to and files from one device to another, you may use LocalSend, which is similar to AirDrop, but does work only when you’re on the same network’ or something like that.

I won’t call it a bad advice, because I’ve been struggling without LocalDrop, as there’s no similar thing for Linux world. AirDrop is surely works better, you can send files just being on the street, connected to no WiFi. However, I had a number of issues with it for family usage, while LocalSend just works seamlessly between my Linux computers and iOS devices.

Yep, Syncthing is great, and I use it heavily. What I meant is that AirDrop is for sending files you select, from one device to another, so LocalSend just closer to that. As the sibling comment pointed out, AirDrop is more robust.

Hardly agree here. I’d try not even replace a MacBook, but provide an alternative calm laptop to, say, browse the internet at home. (For that, iPad often beats any laptop, however. Say, my wife doesn’t even have a laptop of her own, but she uses iPad all the time, and I don’t see how to change that.)

We migrated to Immich this summer, and I’m mostly happy with the transition. (We migrated off Google Photos, which we were using since day one. So that wasn’t an iCloud migration.)

Some things, like passwords: she uses the integrated one, that comes with iOS. I’m just having duplicates in my vault. (I use pass.) So, overall it’s not an easy fight, but I consider us a Linux household, since the primary devices — servers and desktops with laptops — are all Linux, with no macOS (so far), and iOS. We don’t have Apple Watches right now, but I think we may try them. I think you won’t be able to replace them with Androids. To me, Android phones are just unreliable (hardware wise), and software is just an ugly mess. I haven’t tried GrapheneOS yet, and Lineage OS was good the last time I tried, but it’s still a toy device in comparison to iOS, reliability wise, not feature wise. I don’t see them as a replacement to an iPhone, they’re just a different league. For myself, I see Android phone (with Lineage OS) as a second phone only: and only till the moment a true Linux phone would replace it.