Can you run Signal with basically no iOS or Android devices right now and still do the (mandatory) prove-your-phone-id steps?
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Can you run Signal with basically no iOS or Android devices right now and still do the (mandatory) prove-your-phone-id steps?
It feels like very near future I, and everyone else who cares about computing autotonomy, we're all gonna have to start runnin' the Linux phones, no matter how non-ideal that user experience is right now
@cwebber What's the leading non-Android Linux phone these days? -
Can you run Signal with basically no iOS or Android devices right now and still do the (mandatory) prove-your-phone-id steps?
It feels like very near future I, and everyone else who cares about computing autotonomy, we're all gonna have to start runnin' the Linux phones, no matter how non-ideal that user experience is right now
@cwebber There is no special device permission to verify the ownership of the phone number. It's based on SMS. AIUI you've always been fine running Signal on a different phone than the one your SIM is in. Same should work with real full client on non-Android Linux.
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@cwebber You need a number that can receive an SMS. You can use signal-cli as your "primary" device. It's a bit cumbersome, you need to take a screenshot of a QR code that keeps changing (or patch Signal Desktop to show an URL?) and feed that into signal-cli, but it works.
I tried last year to set up a second signal account without using any kind of phone. I went through every option people suggested and just could not get it to work. Part of it seemed like Signal just wouldn't send an SMS to any of the VoIP numbers that I gave it.
Eventually just gave up and bought another phone. Still irritated that I need to have one phone on hand per signal account or context.
