Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development

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This sounds awesome. :)

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 10 pts · 126d (3 replies)

Though it’ll still be Electron bloatware, chewing up RAM and CPU cycles for tasks a native app could have done on a potato.

NickeeCoco@piefed.social · 9 pts · 125d (1 reply)

so wait, you're saying that the equivalent of an IRC client could run with less than 16 GB of RAM?

rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 125d

Well, I mean it can take a 4K video down scale it to reasonable sizes to share with your chatgroup.

But everything else, yeah.

87Six@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 125d

Well, in the case of an open source donation-supported project, it gets a pass from me.

Can't really ask more optimisation from the devs on top of what they already deliver imho, I'm just glad to have Signal

Maybe starting a native app would be terribly difficult for them

It will still require a phone number, this is a nothingburger. Meanwhile, there's still no way to use Signal on an android tablet.

eleitl@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 125d (1 reply)

You can use a phone to authorize a tablet.

Last I checked the android app only works as a primary device, and the desktop app doesn't run on android, did that change?

Hows about a damn Android Tablet version ffs!

lemmyng@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 125d (1 reply)

Use Delta Chat instead. No phone number required, completely anonymous.

Or use Arcane Chat, which is a Delta Chat client with more features: https://f-droid.org/packages/chat.delta.lite

>completely anonymous

It's just email, and email isn't exactly famous for its security and privacy..