Ah yes, the two operating systems: Android + iOS. You can't have an account without registering a primary device on one of those OSs. No KaiOS, no Linux phones, no desktop machines, no web-only options. I'm mad about these mobile-duopoly-app-first services because you can't participate in alternative lifestyles when it Cowes to phone usage.
Well, while not officially endorsed, there is `signald`. With mautrix-signal, I'm able to bridge my Signal and Matrix accounts. I can also make signald my primary device.
Amen to this. I bank with Starling and having decided to minimise my phone usage am having to move away from them. Likewise a variety of other services.
Honestly my banking situation + Signal is the biggest barriers to me switching. I pushed pretty hard to get friends and family to successfully switch off Messenger, LINE, and SMS for Signal (and now they're confused why the need a separate messaging app for SMS--thanks Moxie). I suppose I could write my own front-end wrapper around the bank, but they ain't paying me for that and would likely shut it down as insecure if they found out (even though there's no responsive design, they don't allow you to copy-paste or right-click, or use commas and other punctuation because the web system is built with TIS encoding I think, and they log you out with a meta refresh after 15 or 20 minutes of activity with no pop-up to save your work (in case you were trying to reformat another complaint message without puncuation in their messaging system), and I saw code checking for IE4 and Netscape Navigator 4).
Ah yes, the two operating systems: Android + iOS. You can't have an account without registering a primary device on one of those OSs. No KaiOS, no Linux phones, no desktop machines, no web-only options. I'm mad about these mobile-duopoly-app-first services because you can't participate in alternative lifestyles when it Cowes to phone usage.