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.
      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        1·
        6 hours ago

        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.

        • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
          4·
          6 hours ago

          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.

          • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
            1·
            4 hours ago

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

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

            • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
              3·
              4 hours 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.

          • Kairos@lemmy.today
            1·
            6 hours ago

            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?

            • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              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.