I had a moment like that when I received a call. My smart watch sent a pause command to the playback notification, which was KDE connect, connected to my PC's audio player, which was controlling Kodi on my TV, pausing it nearly instantly.
A single pause command bridged four devices and it all just worked together. That's the true power of interoperable software standards.
Sadly, Google added a privacy constraint to Android, taking away the ability to monitor the clipboard in the background with no way to bypass the restrictions without rooting your phone. Automated clipboard sync was just great, and I'm sad to see it go.
I too enjoyed clipboard sync and am sad it's gone, but it still works for the desktop → phone direction, and for transferring text in the opposite direction, I select it and "share" it with KDE Connect, which puts the text into a .txt file on the desktop and displays it. (In my case it's using a pager in a terminal window, I guess that's how my file handlers are set up?)
It's not as magical as full automation, but still better than sending an email to myself or similar nonsense.
A single pause command bridged four devices and it all just worked together. That's the true power of interoperable software standards.
Sadly, Google added a privacy constraint to Android, taking away the ability to monitor the clipboard in the background with no way to bypass the restrictions without rooting your phone. Automated clipboard sync was just great, and I'm sad to see it go.