unglueclass23@programming.dev to Privacy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoSignal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in developmentaboutsignal.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down11
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minus-squareAllNewTypeFace@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down3·5 months agoThough it’ll still be Electron bloatware, chewing up RAM and CPU cycles for tasks a native app could have done on a potato.
minus-squareNickeeCoco@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoso wait, you’re saying that the equivalent of an IRC client could run with less than 16 GB of RAM?
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.zipcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoWell, I mean it can take a 4K video down scale it to reasonable sizes to share with your chatgroup. But everything else, yeah.
minus-square87Six@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·5 months agoWell, in the case of an open source donation-supported project, it gets a pass from me. Can’t really ask more optimisation from the devs on top of what they already deliver imho, I’m just glad to have Signal Maybe starting a native app would be terribly difficult for them
Though it’ll still be Electron bloatware, chewing up RAM and CPU cycles for tasks a native app could have done on a potato.
so wait, you’re saying that the equivalent of an IRC client could run with less than 16 GB of RAM?
Well, I mean it can take a 4K video down scale it to reasonable sizes to share with your chatgroup.
But everything else, yeah.
Well, in the case of an open source donation-supported project, it gets a pass from me.
Can’t really ask more optimisation from the devs on top of what they already deliver imho, I’m just glad to have Signal
Maybe starting a native app would be terribly difficult for them