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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] 4 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The desktop app on a cellphone is unusable, like all desktop apps.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    Use a local Matrix bridge.

    This new update will not change how the desktop app looks. They're just copying over the code for the signup flow.

    Edit: oh my brain put your and the top level comment together. Sorry.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Use a local Matrix bridge.

    Not an option. You lose the ability to share photos and videos, which I do constantly with friends and family.

    And it's hellishly Rube Goldberg.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I share photos and videos through my Matrix/Signal bridge all the time just fine.

    Calls don't work but that's about it.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Photos have been working for a year now in the Mautrix bridge.

    Waydroid seriously doesn't have persistence? Are you sure there isn't a setting?

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