DeltaChat for the win
Ok, maybe not for the win per se, but I am switching over to DeltaChat as I really only have two people I share with.
While its not perfect, it works well enough for me, I just send the occasional message, link or image to others or m'self, and it does that fine. This time around, I've got the sticker thing sorta fixed, Android doesn't offer a sticker option, something I need to see if'n I can figure a work around for, but I've got it working well on my desktop. I've also tried the Mastodon bridge, and that works fine, but having your home timeline show up as chat messages get old fast, notifications are a little bit better, but still, bad idea. There is a Telegram bridge, but that looks like it only works to bridge Telegram Groups to DeltaChat, so that's not all that great.
So what is DeltaChat? Its an email based encrypted messenger. You can use an existing email address, though I don't recommend that, or get one from DeltaChat or a couple other servers. Clients exist for Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android... And I suppose there's one for Windows too.
I guess if'n anyone wants to try it, or has questions, I can try to answer them, just shout at me here.
like this
reshared this
Popular Mechanics ain't what it used to be, huh?
Saw an article on Flipboard that was from Popular Mechanics via AppleNews, so I couldn't open it on my phone. No problem, just go to the site and search, right? Almost the entire first page of results for off grid solar were 'articles' about great sales on solar panels, power banks and the like.
Milkπ₯
in reply to π΄ Seph π πΎ • • •π΄ Seph π πΎ
in reply to Milkπ₯ • •Milkπ₯
in reply to π΄ Seph π πΎ • • •Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§
in reply to π΄ Seph π πΎ • • •You can use this keyboard app on Android to use stickers in DeltaChat!
github.com/fredhappyface/androβ¦
GitHub - FredHappyface/Android.EweSticker: EweSticker is an Android sticker keyboard application, specifically designed for sharing a wide variety of custom stickers in supported messaging apps. This project draws inspiration from the uSticker project and
GitHubπ΄ Seph π πΎ
in reply to Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§ • — (STL, MO, US, Earth) •@Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§ I'd heard something about that, but hadn't tried it. Not sure how well it'll work, but we'll see if'n I can get it installed and working, animated images don't seem to work in the Android client though
EDIT
That works very nice, thanks. Wonder if'n iOS needs a solution like that or if'n it just works.
π΄ Seph π πΎ
in reply to Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§ • •Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§
in reply to π΄ Seph π πΎ • • •@sfwrtr Unfortunately not, I wish they would integrate the stickers in the app directly.
However there seems to be some way to use the native iOS keyboard for this:
support.apple.com/en-in/guide/β¦
It seems to be supposed to work with Deltachat, as there is a solved issue about it in their GitHub, with a little video:
github.com/deltachat/deltachatβ¦
I've not used an Apple product in ages myself so I hope it works!
sending stickers stopped working
r10s (GitHub)π΄ Seph π πΎ likes this.
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist
in reply to Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§ • • •@vextaur@blog.taursnd.
I found a good workaround that works well for #Apple #Mac, not quite a sticker picker but similar amount of clicks on iPad and iPhone. I like the odds that it would work on #windows and #linux versions.
Optional: Tell Files to display icons. To the extent that works in Files on the iPad and iPhone (questionable), you will see the key image for the sticker.
#BoostingIsSharing
#DeltaChat #stickers #chat #messenger