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.