Daniel Gultsch (@daniel@gultsch.social)
gultsch.social
Attached: 1 image I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking! Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone. I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment). I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.

Interesting test. Obviously only applies when you use Signal without priviledged push notifications via FCM through Google servers.

  • pootriarchEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    When I installed Signal it complained that I didn’t have Google Play Services and fell back to websockets. But my phone is boring, I do have Google services. Could I have something in a firewall config that made it pick wrong? Is it using a different checking mechanism from all my other apps that go through FCM?

    • poVoqOPM
      2•5 months ago

      No idea. Why not use XMPP? It’s better anyways 😜

      • pootriarch
        1•5 months ago

        i do have. and my ‘sms’ goes over it. but i can’t make everyone come to me. (i did abandon the ones who are whatsapp-only tho)