pinguinu [any]

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Cake day: November 4th, 2023

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  • My brother had a Motorola from 2014 until 2020. I gave a friend a smartphone from 2017 that I used daily until 2022 and he’s using it now. I’m sure you’ll be fine.

    Also, the updates are weekly. I think they ship the latest commit or something, so skipping a few may not be a big deal.

    Edit: answering the question, yes, you only need to download the latest




  • Agreed. And also, it’s very old. There are forks of Signal with no proprietary blobs, outside of Google Play (which wouldn’t matter anyway since Google can’t tamper with the builds distributed). Gotta say the part where you have to use your mobile phone does suck, instead of having a random ID like Jami does.

    And about this post, decentralizing Signal wouldn’t do much. There are no fully open source implementations, and if you hosted your own instance, you’d have to pay up for AWS and use some proprietary libraries, so you could get unwanted attention.