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  • @[email protected]
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    524 months ago

    Wild question I never thought I’d be asking, anyone know a stripped down SMS app I can use instead of the default?

    I don’t want to see AI features and I don’t wanna participate in helping anyone build a LLM

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        4 months ago

        I’ve tried, but literally everyone else I know absolutely hard refuses to switch to Signal. So, L I guess.

        • Liz
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          144 months ago

          And here is the exact reason Signal dropping SMS was a terrible decision.

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            Yup. That’s the whole reason I kept using signal. I got 2 or 3 people to start using it while the rest stayed on sms. It kept all my other SMS messages in the same app. So it was seamless to transition between one or the other depending on who used what.

            I actually quit using signal when it could no longer be my SMS app, just because it became too much of an annoyance to remember which people did and didn’t use signal.

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            The shit I send via sms is like “Do you want pizza tonight” or “how far away are you”. Anything more detailed gets turned into a phone call. It’d be cooler if it were Signal but alas, family habits die hard.

            • @[email protected]
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              24 months ago

              For sure, my family took to it because Hangouts was being deprecated and we wanted a new group chat system. Easier for them since they had already adapted to a more modern text system, but I used it as an opportunity to get them onto a more secure platform and they did!

              Signal Matrix etc are the way. Good luck in the future.

    • Lee DunaOP
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      I’m not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.

      You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example

      pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app

      As for SMS app, I use QKSMS

      I just saw this, it’s available on f-droid and play store

      Deku SMS is an Android SMS app.

      Deku SMS is being developed as a proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications.

      https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

    • Hellmo_luciferrari
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      54 months ago

      It’s not FOSS but I used Textra for years and it’s quite great. I don’t think it supports bubbles, but it’s worth checking out

    • @[email protected]
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      14 months ago

      Textra or Chomp SMS.

      Textra is more feature rich but I had a problem setting custom notifications on Xiaomi phone so I switched to Chomp. Fun fact: both are developed by the same developer.

  • @[email protected]
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    264 months ago

    Now that Simple SMS Messenger by Mobile Tools has been bought, the answer is its fork, the Fossify SMS Messenger on f-droid.

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    I opted out of using Gemini when they launched in on my pixel 8. Will this affect me? Time to start digging.

    Edit: looks like I’m in the clear until they implement this on the backend because I don’t have the Gemini app on my phone.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 months ago

      One can disable google assistant via adb, I would assume even if google retires the former in favor of gemini, the newer could also be disabled via similar means.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        I just don’t want to use Gemini. I opted out and so far as I can tell from what I found online I don’t have to worry about this unless they bake Gemini into apps I have installed for now. Doesn’t look like I need to disable Gemini via ADB right now. And since I actually use Google Assistant, I’ll stick with it till they force me to change over.