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What OS are you using? Microsoft has a proprietary and data-sucking app that can allow you to send messages from desktop. I can understand wanting to avoid using it.
On Linux there's KDE Connect and a litany of other options as well (KDE Connect breaks a lot in my personal experience, although it has been more stable lately).
Jumping to Beeper for this seems like a bunch of extra steps to mimic things that already exist.
Sorry, on Linux Mint 22.1. I'm not a big fan of KDE stuff in general, since it seems like you have to download tons of other stuff just to use one of their apps, but I suppose I could give it a look . . .
I guess that is one of the issues with reuse of frameworks and things. The first one takes a lot of new stuff. Subsequent KDE software doesn't
I guess there are pro's and cons to all things.