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Beeper ready to wave white flag if its latest iMessage fix gets shut down
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And while they wait for RCS, they can just install Signal. Signal works and is funded by a non-profit who puts in more work to know as little as possible about you than any other company/org out there.
Fair, let me buy a new phone to talk to one person instead.
fair. anyone who doesn't want to install Signal can reach me via text/SMS or RCS. those are the options.
Can signal interact with SMS? I felt like I had issues with that when I used it a couple years ago. May have been me.
@rhythmisaprancer @ijeff @Chozo @KLISHDFSDF @sour
pretty sure they removed sms support
Too bad.
Used to but not anymore. Anything sent over Signal is guaranteed to be secure. SMS/RCS doesn't provide any guarantees as SMS is not encrypted by default and RCS clients are all closed-source.
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Like a telephone call?
Yeah, like a telephone call. But, not a telephone call.
Isn't a telephone call supported on all phones? If it isn't, then nothing is.
Oops, I did not add a "/s" because, I assumed both yours and the comment you had replied to were sarcasm. I missed the question mark on your comment. Phone calls are universal on every device supporting a compatible network (2G, LTE, 5G, etc).
Unfortunately Signal, unlike Telegram, breaks when I uninstall google play services.
You have to reinstall Signal after uninstalling play services. Then it detects that play services aren't there and sets itself up to receive push notifications without it.
But to be on the safe side, I'd install Signal-FOSS instead which has no Google dependencies at all.
Thanks for this, today I learn
It doesn't for me? I run it on Graphene without google play services. You just have to turn off battery optimization, but it's very reasonable in its battery usage. I've been off battery for 18 hours, and am at 81% on my Pixel 8. Signal is at less than 1% of battery use, and it still will be in a few days when I'm ready to charge, unless I use it significantly on my phone. But I mostly use it from my laptop, and just get notifications on my phone, so probably not.
In contrast, K9 Mail is at around 3%, it's running at battery optimized, and I haven't opened it at all.
weird, works on my de-google'd OnePlus 6T running Android 13
get the signal apk from their website instead of downloading with aurora store