ExtremeDullard comments on Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 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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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 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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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago

Okay, I guess it's gotten more usable since I last looked at it.

But it remains a terrible solution to a problem that only exists because nobody made a port of the mobile Signal to a mobile Linux OS.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 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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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

If you close Waydroid in UBPorts, it takes down whatever was running inside it.

It's a UBPorts thing though: I have am ARM64 laptop running Debian, and Waydroid keeps running in the background in Debian.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 point 6 months ago

Ohhh running in the background. Not data persistence.

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