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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)
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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Though it’ll still be Electron bloatware, chewing up RAM and CPU cycles for tasks a native app could have done on a potato.

[–] NickeeCoco@piefed.social 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

so wait, you're saying that the equivalent of an IRC client could run with less than 16 GB of RAM?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

Well, I mean it can take a 4K video down scale it to reasonable sizes to share with your chatgroup.

But everything else, yeah.

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