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.
  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    83·
    23 hours ago

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

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        22 hours ago

        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.zipEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      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