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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] NickeeCoco@piefed.social 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

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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[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 0 points 6 months ago

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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