Yes. Need to quickly scan book barcodes and generate list of books

👍Thanks for the tip, will definitely look into.

Exactly. Maybe I can disable it altogether…?

Be very skeptical about this 🤔

How can I do that? KDE Connect is one option I’m looking at

I’m gettin’ old, and it’s an “old dog new tricks” type thing. However, I’ve still got it installed and probably just need to fiddle around with it some more. Getting Mrs. Hedge and my peeps to switch is going to be tough tho, hence me asking about the Signal bridge . . . Are “rooms” the same as “groups”?

Oh boy. I think I’m really out of my depth here. I just downloaded Element and was fiddling with it a bit and found it to be kind of confusing. Maybe I oughta just stick with Signal despite centralization and signalcoin. Would be nice to be able to get SMS on the desktop tho, so I don’t have to go hunting for my phone everytime I have to do 2FA (which, admittedly, is not that often). In any event, thanks to @wxboss@lemmy.sdf.org & @GlowingLantern@feddit.de.

I❤️Joe Cool Snoopy👍

Thanks, but I’m afraid I’d end up like @Shiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone!

What would you recommend instead? A lot of my people are on Signal, and it would be tough to get them off, but as of now, I really just need something that can deal with Signal and SMS.

Do you Matrix instead?

Following the link on the download page, I did

apksigner verify Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-6.24.4.apk

which returns lines and lines of errors that look similar to this:

WARNING: META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/app-metadata.properties not protected by signature. Unauthorized modifications to this JAR entry will not be detected. Delete or move the entry outside of META-INF/.

I also tried, after asking for help from Signal support:

keytool -list -printcert -jarfile Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-6.24.4.apk

and got

keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Only one command is allowed: both -list and -printcert were specified.

I barely understand any of this; really I just want to make sure that the app is safe, properly verified, and not tampered with (which seems kind of unlikely in any event . . . ?)

UPDATE: If I do

apksigner verify --print-certs Signal-Android-website-prod-universal-release-6.24.4.apk

I get

Signer #1 certificate DN: CN=Whisper Systems, OU=Research and Development, O=Whisper Systems, L=Pittsburgh, ST=PA, C=US
Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest: 29f34e5f27f211b424bc5bf9d67162c0eafba2da35af35c16416fc446276ba26
Signer #1 certificate SHA-1 digest: 45989dc9ad8728c2aa9a82fa55503e34a8879374
Signer #1 certificate MD5 digest: d90db364e32fa3a7bda4c290fb65e310

followed by a whole lot more of those WARNING: META-INF thingies, but I believe #1 is correct?

LibraryThing is owned by Abebooks which is owned by amazon. 🙁

With a lot of time and effort, almost entirely. I’m happy to provide suggestions to anyone if they need alternatives or can’t find what they’re looking for in the privacy guides.

Sorry, but whenever I see Meta’s logo I just think “blue balls.”

Unfortunately, yes. Sometimes buying from them is unavoidable, since they seem to have more books listed than anywhere else. I recommend alibris, not as big, but not owned by amazon. Sometimes if I find a book on Abe, I’ll check and see if the same seller is on alibris, which they often will be. Alibris also actually lets you rate the seller unlike abe!

Besides Goodreads, Amazon also, unfortunately, owns or has stakes in Book Depository, Abebooks, BookFinder & LibraryThing.

Owned by Amazon!

❤️❤️❤️

EDIT: thanks to all who replied. Maybe I should have written “what’s the easiest way to verify an apk file on an android phone?” Unfortunately, I guess I’m not smart enough to understand your answers 🙁