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One big thing Signal is bad at for me is using from a computer.

They have a desktop client, but it's just a weird thing that proxies through my phone in a sort of bizarre backwards self-hosting sort of way.

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It does not proxy through your phone. After the initial setup, you can switch off your phone and the desktop client will work just fine.

Except (unless something has changed very recently) you can't backup/restore your chat history to a new desktop client... Security over general usability.

You can back up. Not restore though. The database key is in the config file.

How does it help security?

Excellent point; agreed.

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