Thanks for the useful info. Still, I don’t think I want to fool with it until it’s available via GUI. That’s just me.

And I hope you are right about the rest being quicker.

But they have historically moved pretty damn slow

I’m sure my command line game is weak. Do you have a solution for connecting to Bluetooth and for timing out to login screen and blanking it after a certain period?

Exactly. I could use it as my daily if the settings panel was more complete.

I agree

I couldn’t even connect Bluetooth until I switched to Gnome again

Not in the long view it wouldn’t be that bad but we’ve seen other projects take so many years. Look how long it’s taken Wayland.

That’s my plan. I’m back on Gnome until feature parity.

I’m just afraid it’s gonna be another 2 years before it’s ready for everyday use

I wonder if it’s only happening on KDE? Either way, I’m sure it needs to be corrected.

That sucks and they need to fix it. Still out hasn’t happened here yet. Are you on Gnome desktop environment?

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.

I love Signal and use it with my family which is the majority of my messaging. But I was surprised to find out the rest of my family on iPhone are missing features I have on Android. This doesn’t help bring the iPhone users.

I don’t disagree with you either. But I think that when people give their phone number to a business they are often unaware of all of the nefarious ways it will be used, whether by ignorance or deception.

My point is just that replaceable usernames are perfect for random people you meet IRL or on the Internet because it’s minimal trouble to disconnect permanently when the time comes.

I have given names to people on the Internet and changed names after our conversation was finished. I think that is much better than giving someone a phone number and much easier to change.

It would be perfect except that the fingerprint protection includes forcing the screen refresh rate to the lowest common denominator. Scrolling is unbearable.

They need to report whatever number they want while always using the highest rate instead.

I just blocked it’s Internet access

My family is all on iMessage. I told them if they didn’t install Signal I wouldn’t reply to their texts.

At first, whenever they texted I would just reply with something that looked automated like “This user is no longer available via text message. Please install Signal if you wish to communicate.”