There is really only one thing keeping me tied to Google stuff: the fact that I don't really know how to use Signal without having an Android'y device.
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There is really only one thing keeping me tied to Google stuff: the fact that I don't really know how to use Signal without having an Android'y device.
I actually don't want any kind of Android or Android-based device. I could use Graphene but I don't want to use that either.
I'd like to get less reliant on Signal too, but here's a challenge: is anyone successfully running Signal with *no* iOS or Android-type devices involved in the process and maintaining their account? How are you doing it?
There's dozens of us! Dozens!
Anyway, here: https://gist.github.com/gruz/37ecc18353121759f7104f6a23f7fbc5 . Ignore the "Windows" in the title, it's irrelevant and the instructions translate trivially to whatever distro you are using.
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There is really only one thing keeping me tied to Google stuff: the fact that I don't really know how to use Signal without having an Android'y device.
I actually don't want any kind of Android or Android-based device. I could use Graphene but I don't want to use that either.
I'd like to get less reliant on Signal too, but here's a challenge: is anyone successfully running Signal with *no* iOS or Android-type devices involved in the process and maintaining their account? How are you doing it?
@cwebber@social.coop there's an unsanctioned CLI tool that lets you do this, but Signal has been known to be hostile towards users using such tools in the past.
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There is really only one thing keeping me tied to Google stuff: the fact that I don't really know how to use Signal without having an Android'y device.
I actually don't want any kind of Android or Android-based device. I could use Graphene but I don't want to use that either.
I'd like to get less reliant on Signal too, but here's a challenge: is anyone successfully running Signal with *no* iOS or Android-type devices involved in the process and maintaining their account? How are you doing it?
@cwebber After reading this thread: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11451/cant-install-whatsapp-or-signal-on-waydroid/14
You could probably install Langis or whatever non-gapps version of Signal in waydroid via a custom F-Droid repo. I'd stick to a non-android phone OS with waydroid support at the very least, so you can try this. However it might be worth setting up waydroid on a computer and testing this is still possible first. Might be possible to setup waydroid with a Google-Apps android image as well, but I'm not sure how restricted that is. Unfortunately none of these Signal forks support alternatives to gapps push notifications, though, so your notifications on new messages will be delayed. Hopefully one of these will support Sunup as a push notifications provider someday. I think it should be possible, people in the thread I linked have done something similar before fairly recently.
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