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Thanks for the link. Most of those points are still true, except for the middle three about SMS/MMS. If your distro ships the latest version of Chatty alongsid

by branon 5y ago

Thanks for the link. Most of those points are still true, except for the middle three about SMS/MMS. If your distro ships the latest version of Chatty alongside mmsd-tng[0], SMS as well as MMS (both bidirectional) work supremely well, I trialed it as a daily driver for all of last month and didn't drop a single SMS/MMS. MMS attachments (images, didn't try video), group chats, everything was fine. I still had to configure APN settings manually, but there was no faffing about on the command line, it just worked. All the other points, though, yeah... those are still accurate. [0] https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd Edit for clarity: this comment (and the link in the parent) references the PinePhone, not the Librem 5, though they're roughly comparable devices

kop316 5y ago
I'm glad to hear MMS works so well for you! Usually other than my own usage, I don't hear too often about folks for whom it works for, usually only issues or help supporting it. Chatty used to use a libpurple plugin, but the dev realized the issues that came with it (as the old comment outlined), and it was moved into Chatty proper, which also allowed for a much cleaner SMS/MMS implementation too. > MMS attachments (images, didn't try video), group chats, everything was fine. MMS on Chatty actually supports arbietrary attachments, so you could send a binary file, a PDF, Video, whatever. Android and iOS will not understand them, but you can send it to another Librem 5 or Pinephone. One neat thing I tried was to use GPG over MMS. It was successful, though very manually intensive. There was thought into making GPG over MMS transparent in Chatty: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/671 https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/671