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unglueclass23@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago

Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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unglueclass23@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours ago
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Signal is working on a standalone version of its desktop app that does not require a smartphone. Signal Desktop will also gain additional options when used as a linked device.
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    Use Delta Chat instead. No phone number required, completely anonymous.

    https://f-droid.org/packages/com.b44t.messenger

    Or use Arcane Chat, which is a Delta Chat client with more features: https://f-droid.org/packages/chat.delta.lite

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    It will still require a phone number, this is a nothingburger. Meanwhile, there’s still no way to use Signal on an android tablet.

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      You can use a phone to authorize a tablet.

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    Though it’ll still be Electron bloatware, chewing up RAM and CPU cycles for tasks a native app could have done on a potato.

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      Well, in the case of an open source donation-supported project, it gets a pass from me.

      Can’t really ask more optimisation from the devs on top of what they already deliver imho, I’m just glad to have Signal

      Maybe starting a native app would be terribly difficult for them

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      so wait, you’re saying that the equivalent of an IRC client could run with less than 16 GB of RAM?

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        Well, I mean it can take a 4K video down scale it to reasonable sizes to share with your chatgroup.

        But everything else, yeah.

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    Hows about a damn Android Tablet version ffs!

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    This sounds awesome. :)

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