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Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

raarts wrote: post #135
finiteseries wrote: post #105

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Mate, the general population increasingly don’t even use desktops or laptops for personal usage anymore let alone a desktop OS specific IM client from the early 2000s.

My daughter (who teaches math at HS) asked me to create educational videos for her kids who don't know how to work a computer. They only know phones.

They use one at home to browse the internet and work?

I can certainly understand that one would do so on the go, but it seems extremely cumbersome to do a school assignment on a phone keyboard.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by 0xffff2 »

sneak wrote: post #38
Rooster61 wrote: post #17

Considering this is open source (which I'm assuming includes the plugins), wouldn't this be a much better alternative to the native apps on mobile? Curious as to why this hasn't been ported to Android/iOS. I'd much prefer this over apps that need permission to my blood type to function. Pidgin was great back in the day for convenience, but there is a legitimate argument to be made for privacy here too. EDIT: It just…

iOS applications aren't allowed to stay awake constantly talking to a bunch of different network services. For iOS IM to work, a centralized server (and corresponding developer ID) has to send a notification to you, sent first to Apple to be proxied via Apple's push notification service (APNS) to which each iOS device maintains a persistent connection. This means that some third party service has to know when you get…

>cryptographically shattered iMessage

Could you expand on this? I did a quick search but I don't see anything relevant that's more recent than 2016.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

superkuh wrote: post #141
raarts wrote: post #135

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My daughter (who teaches math at HS) asked me to create educational videos for her kids who don't know how to work a computer. They only know phones.

Kids can't use computers. http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

It is sad that the original article was written in 2013. I would argue that not much has changed (few more Linux phones were added to the list, but that does not affect the outcome ).

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

unicornporn wrote: post #162
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #142

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XMPP , Discord , Skype , and Matrix .

Is there E2EE support for Matrix? Edit: Nope. https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/18

Nigh all of the protocols have incomplete support.

I purely use it as a chat client and avoid most of the more complicated features, since I don't use them.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Sodman »

naushniki wrote: post #151

My company uses Skype for business(Lync) for internal communication. Unfortunately the official software is not available for Linux which prevents me from switching to Linux on my corporate machine. I know there is a plugin for Pidgin to use Lync. I wonder if anybody tried to use it long enough to tell if it is good enough. I know that the official Mac client is much less stable then the Windows one.

I was in a similar situation about ~4 years ago as one of the only devs running linux in an all-windows shop. I used Pidgin as a Lync client. It had some downsides, I remember "status" notifications were particularly buggy, and screen-sharing/video obviously didn't work at all, but for one-on-one text chat it was fine! YMMV though as this was a while ago.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by Rooster61 »

gogopuppygogo wrote: post #44
Rooster61 wrote: post #17

Considering this is open source (which I'm assuming includes the plugins), wouldn't this be a much better alternative to the native apps on mobile? Curious as to why this hasn't been ported to Android/iOS. I'd much prefer this over apps that need permission to my blood type to function. Pidgin was great back in the day for convenience, but there is a legitimate argument to be made for privacy here too. EDIT: It just…

Have you seen the latest review of the Librem 5 from Linus Tech Tips? The phone seems to run Linux apps fine... it doesn’t have working camera drivers a year after release though... https://youtu.be/BH8DRyKUZDg So Pidgin (gaim for those of us old enough to remember those days) should run fine without a port.

> should run fine without a port

Sure. Was saying that this should work out of the box (at least for the most part) on a linux phone. No port necessary.

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by AdamGibbins »

sneak wrote: post #129
arminiusreturns wrote: post #69

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It's on homebrew, so you might try that. As a linux dude stuck on mac at work it's my go to for installing things. brew install pidgin https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/pidgin On pidgin, I used to use it and have been considering using it again, but right now I lean more towards WeeChat because I like having the ability to CLI it off a vps but I guess I could proxy my pidgin stuff too which is half of the reason I lik…

I don't use Homebrew because it embeds spyware. I think we should all probably stop recommending it as a result.

Are you talking about the analytics? Which most package managers have. You can easily disable it: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics#opting-out

Re: Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client

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Post by sbrother »

smt88 wrote: post #113
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #102

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I finally stopped using it when Google Chat[0] went away. [0] Not that Google Chat, the other one.

Google Talk* There was no product named Google Chat until recently.

Everyone called it GChat, and the ~5 people I still communicate with on it still do.
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