Check SMS on computer: pair Android phone with PC

It's an excellent idea to pair your Android phone with a personal computer and manage SMS fast and easily. Managing SMS and messages on a big computer screen is convenient for individuals and institutions to check the updates frequently. Here are the steps to pair an Android phone with a PC.

1. Make sure that your messaging app is Messages by Google. Otherwise, install the Google Messaging app from the Play Store and make it default.

2. Open the browser on the computer and load the URL https://messages.google.com/web . Where we can see the QR Code.

3. Open the Google Messages app and click on More options. Select the option Device Pairing. Click on the QR code scanner button.

4. Scan the QR Code on the browser using the mobile. The messages interface will load on the browser.

Reference

Check your messages on your computer or Android tablet
https://support.google.com/messages/answer/7611075?hl=en

Install VirtualBox 7 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Debian 12 recently rolled out, and many dependencies for the installation of VirtualBox must borrow from the previous version of Debian. We need to add the Debian 11 repository first.

Add the Debian 11 repository.

echo 'deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye main ' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian11.list

sudo apt update

Visit the following URL and download the .deb suitable for Debian,

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Apply the following command to install the VirtualBox Debian package. I assume that the VirtualBox .deb file in the Download folder,

cd Downloads

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox*

Find the VirtualBox in the application launcher.

Install Telegram messenger in Debian and Ubuntu

Image courtesy: telegram.org

Telegram is a messaging app focusing on speed and security, and it is super-fast, simple and free. You can simultaneously use Telegram on all your devices. Messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. 

Telegram has an app for desktop pc use. It supports popular Linux-based operating systems like Debian and Ubuntu. 

Installation
Telegram app is available in the software repository of Debian and Ubuntu Linux. Apply the following command to install Telegram;

sudo apt install telegram-desktop

Debian 12 Bookworm repository information

Here are the steps to add the main repository address to Debian 12.
Add to sources.list
Open the sources.list using your favourite text editor (e.g. Mousepad),

su
mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste the following lines into the file,

deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-free
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware non-free

Save and close the file. Update the repository list and upgrade the packages by applying following commands;

apt update
apt upgrade