• @hyperespecial
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    52 years ago

    this app works so good for snowboarding in the mountains when your trying to find your friends on various lifts, as there isn’t any internet up there

    • Arthur BesseA
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      22 years ago

      that makes no sense, the range of bluetooth or wifi on a phone seems insufficient to communicate with people who are far enough away that you couldn’t find them in physical space. have you actually tried this or are you speaking hypothetically?

      • @Lynda
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        22 years ago

        I think Briar is capable of relaying messages. As long as Briar users come into range at some point, messages will be exchanged.

        I’d be interested in battery consumption issue.

    • @PapaModelo
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      12 years ago

      This use case is valid I often find myself snowboarding and my friend wears black so we get lost even though at times were feet away from each other

  • @beansniffer
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    32 years ago

    Does the desktop version also have local connectivity through bluetooth or local wifi like the android app? Might be interesting to use at a base station to facilitate communication between multiple points in a line of sight wifi network… but then I guess you could just setup an XMPP or Matrix server to accomplish the same thing, I guess. Always liked Briar though.

  • @Lynda
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    12 years ago

    What’s the best AUR package? Or should I be using .jar?

    • NFT screenshotterOP
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      12 years ago

      the jar would probably be the most convenient since the packages are probably still the same java application just bundled in a repo