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Some people work around this by not using the WhatsApp app on the Linux phone and instead using XMPP and a https://slidge.im transport running on a Pi in the closet. :D
I personally do that to avoid using slow Matrix clients that eat up a lot of resources.
If I read the documentation correctly then the bridge uses WA Web. That means you still need an Android or iOS device to act as the primary phone. Or am I wrong?
Side note: I wonder how practical it would be to build a bridge that uses the DMA mandated interop instead. I would donate a couple of € to such a project.
Yes, but apparently it only needs to connect to WhatsApp servers once every seven days, so it’s easy to temporarily start WhatsApp in Waydroid every week for a short moment, boot up another phone or run it in Android Translation Layer, which should be the least annoying option.
Not much in terms of practicality. It needs to go through courts first. WhatsApp has specific rules and does malicious compliance. It’s sort of there, but so annoying to implement that nobody, except two companies with connections to WhatsApp itself, do it. There’s a reason not almost every XMPP server out there federates with them already.
EDIT: Forgot to mention: You can also run WhatsApp in Waydroid on a Pi, so that it stays online and the “web” session the Slidge transport uses stays connected.
Or even just run it on a laptop in the background. As long as you boot it once a week the transport stays connected. If you every leave it off for more than a week you can just re-connect anyway.