Something very interesting has happened early on in the Summer of 2020 while quietly very disturbing for Apple.

The Raspberry Pi 4 is a leap forward not just for the Pi but for single-board computers across the board. It’s a great light-weight desktop replacement. It’s even surprised me as a viable Rust / Ada development environment. Raspberry Pi 4 running MATE desktop My setup includes a Raspberry Pi 4 FLIRC case which is basically a giant aluminum heat sink. This allows for a completely silent setup running at an average of 54’C.

As I’ve been spending a lot of time with Arm hardware lately as my primary desktop and server platform I missed using my secure messenger app of choice. I was able to cook up builds for both armv7l/armhf/GNU Linux (32-bit) and arm64/aarch64/GNU Linux (64-bit). These are unofficial but fully working builds of Signal Desktop for Linux on Arm processors. Enjoy ! Signal Desktop armv7l/armhf/GNU Linux Signal Desktop arm64/aarch64/GNU Linux