Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
There’s a desktop application?
Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
There’s a desktop application?
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, and it’s quite good. Apart from this.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
It’s a shitty overbloated Electron app.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s fast and has good functionality, what exactly is bloated about it?
weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
People being triggered by the sheer existence of Electron – it just HAS to be “shitty”, even if it works perfectly fine.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
It takes up half a GB of RAM and constantly keeps the CPU active. It’s still on X11 and thus integrates poorly with the rest of my Wayland apps. It seems to report itself to Pipewire as something else every other week and is thus impossible to control reliably.
It works well and I haven’t encountered any crashes or other bugs in months. But I genuinely think it could have been much better as a QT app or so. Plus, thanks to Electron there isn’t an ARM version either making it impossible to run on my Raspberry Pi or my Pinephone.
D_Air1@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I have a couple problems with it aside from being electron.
On linux, whether it is a native package or flatpak. I have to launch it twice for it to open.
I can’t restore chats from my phone to the desktop application which frankly sucks. It makes sense if they don’t wanna have to store extra data on their servers, but at least let the backups that I manually take on my phone be usable on the desktop. Not having the majority of your conversations from before you linked the desktop app is a pain in the arse.
Delusion6903@discuss.online 3 months ago
I never have to launch twice on flatpak.
And I only keep conversations for 2 to 4 weeks so starting over doesn’t bother me. Sorry if that doesn’t work for you too.
D_Air1@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I don’t do temporary conversations, but this is the open issue on the flatpak github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454. The thing is, I’m having the same issue as the flatpak even though I’m not using the flatpak.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Could it be yours is set to start in the tray?
D_Air1@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Nope, its basically the same issue that the flatpak is happening, but I’m not using the flatpak. github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454
vladmech@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It doesn’t have gif searching though which is so annoying.
AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It had a PR open before with gif search but the desktop dev closed it because he didn’t want to review something so big. Nevermind most of the PR was just assets.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Quite-good is stretching it a bit. It’s serviceable but it’s still Electron with gazillion megabytes of RAM taken for no reason and absolute nightmare on laptops since browsers like waking CPU a lot.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fair points, I normally use it on a high-end gaming pc, making me ignorant to issues of that nature.