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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development
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This sounds awesome. :)
Though it’ll still be Electron bloatware, chewing up RAM and CPU cycles for tasks a native app could have done on a potato.
so wait, you're saying that the equivalent of an IRC client could run with less than 16 GB of RAM?
Well, I mean it can take a 4K video down scale it to reasonable sizes to share with your chatgroup.
But everything else, yeah.
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.
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!
Use Delta Chat instead. No phone number required, completely anonymous.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.b44t.messenger
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..
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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