Hi everyone,
I currently use Telegram to send photos, PDFs and text messages between my Android phone and my Debian laptop. It works, but everything goes through a third-party server, and I would like a fully local, privacy-friendly alternative.
What I need: Send photos, PDFs and other files in both directions (phone ↔ laptop) Send short text messages or clipboard content Works locally
Thanks for any advice and experience!


You might be able to use War & Peace to clear the app caches. Make sure that you have less space than the space that the movie War & Peace will try to use. Try to rent War & Peace from the iTunes store. When your iPhone runs out of space, it will clear caches to try to free up enough space.
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.
You’re welcome. About how much space was cleared up for you?
I ended up with having two problems:
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.
It’s the War & Peace movie. I don’t have an iPhone anymore but I think that it is https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/war-and-peace/umc.cmc.184ycmkd2wegkyyvsypwb7m2b It doesn’t show a file size for me, though.