This is awesome, thanks for the good read. I’m looking forward to see where this goes from here.

Sleep as Android

https://sleep.urbandroid.org/

Does that affect your battery much? The warning pushed me away from trying it.

Signal

Its already available for download and use, but I can’t find the source anywhere other than a Python proof of concept project that beeper purchased the rights to to make this app.

There shouldn’t be any back end beeper servers with this implementation if they really do what they say and interface directly with Apple servers.

So if the app will be open source like they say, can’t we just build it ourselves and not pay $2/mo?

Looks like Microsoft Pluton is a newly implemented security chip in some 2022+ processors. Definitely not ideal, but I imagine there are already people working to bypass arising issues.

It’s concerning to me, but I’ve yet to see it. I stream from my NAS to a plex client though, so maybe it’s only windows playback.