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.
  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    5 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·
      3 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·
        2 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·
      5 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·
        5 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.