ExtremeDullard

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…

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…

Yeah I don’t trust the Signal people much either. But I don’t really care: I use it mainly to share grocery lists, photos of work sites with builders, talk to friends or share non-important photos and videos easily and instantly without paying. And I can tell those who want to contact me to install it, it takes them 10 seconds and it’s done. It’s not about privacy for me, it’s about convenience and not paying the phone company.

That’s why I’m not desperate to make it work with silly workarounds like Mautrix/Signal or put up with Waydroid on UBPorts: if it’s not convenient, it’s not worth it for me.

If you close Waydroid in UBPorts, it takes down whatever was running inside it.

It’s a UBPorts thing though: I have am ARM64 laptop running Debian, and Waydroid keeps running in the background in Debian.

Use a local Matrix bridge.

Not an option. You lose the ability to share photos and videos, which I do constantly with friends and family.

And it’s hellishly Rube Goldberg.

The desktop app on a cellphone is unusable, like all desktop apps.

The usability is nowhere near acceptable with a cellphone for daily usage with either or those options, or with the native client in Waydroid because it’s not persistent if Waydroid is closed.

Signal with anything other than the official client sucks ass. I know, I tried.

And that’s without mentioning that you still need to have the “master” Signal client running on an Android cellphone, which defeats the purpose if you want to ditch Android.

Same here. I desperately want to exit the Android ecosystem and I have a cellphone all setup with UBPorts to do so, but the lack of native Signal client is a showstopper for me.

I doubt the 'Nusians are interested in yet another re-run of talking-monkeys-destroy-themselves.

Bryon Noem’s life choices are nobody’s business: he hurts no-one and he doesn’t cost the taxpayer anything.

Unlike his bitch wife: you want to bash a Noem? Concentrate on Kristi. She’s the one who needs to pay for her crimes.

You would never have heard of her unusual husband, were it not for the very public disgrace of that terrible woman. I say give the guy a fucking break already.