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.