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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)

submitted 1 week ago by unglueclass23@programming.dev to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just run Signal in Waydroid?

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Signal won't run in the background in Waydroid in UBPorts: as soon as you close Waydroid, whatever runs inside dies.

Also, if you want to run something else in Waydroid, it can't run in parallel for some reason. So I'd have to kill Signal to run my banking app for example, then restart Signal - and be careful never to close the window as I use the cellphone throughout the day.

Not super usable...

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

thats kinda cursed

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Yep. Signal on mobile Linux - or the lack thereof - is entirely what's still keeping me on Android. Other than that, UBPorts is perfectly usable for me. It's just that one thing...