Work uses Slack, which is quite entrenched in the organization, so trying to move all of my contacts over to something else would be nontrivial. Colleagues use it to send moderately urgent messages every now and then, so notifications on my phone would be a nice-to-have.
I haven’t had much luck finding well-maintained open-source clients for Slack. I could sandbox Play Services alongside the official app or a browser, but I’d rather not make my phone run the whole Google Play stack just for those notifications. Did I miss any low-hanging fruit or is hosting a Matrix bridge the only alternative?
Why in the world are you using company resources on a personal device? You should always seperate the two for your own peace of mind as well as privacy.
Agreed, but company does not provide us devices. Everything I’ve said applies to my second phone running GrapheneOS, which I am using as my work phone. I’m trying to avoid setting up and running Play Services just for nice-to-have notifications when none of my other apps require it.
Cant request one? Just buy a used, cheap, bottom of the barrel android phone for work purpose. Trust me, its worth it.
It’s a hassle handling two phone but for me its well worth it. Anything work related goes into that phone. I dont touch it once im clocked out. Disable every single app that are not work related.
Lots of small companies don’t require/give you to use a dedicated work phone. Shit my company isn’t even all that small anymore and we still don’t.
Yeah, matrix bridge gives you the most flexibility. That’s what beeper does
I do this. I self-host rather than use Beeper but the effect is the same. Single client (Element) to my own Matrix server (Synapse) with bridges to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and Slack.
I’m dying to do this but the clients for Matrix on iOS and macOS look like trash, they’re either web wrappers or have that creepy Windows look.
I really wish I had the time to study Swift and native app development.
I’m running GrapheneOS and have no idea what things look like on the fruity phones.
I use Linux utilities everyday on macOS as well as on my servers and networking equipment—I love it to death.
But when it comes to the end-user stuff, I’m deeply invested in Apple’s ecosystem. My personal laptop, work laptop, phone, Apple TV work pretty seamlessly together and I love that aspect of it.
What saddens me most is the drive away from native app development regardless of OS. Can’t stand Windows but if I’m using it I want the applications running on it to match Windows’ design language the same as I do on macOS (Linux GUI looks awful on macOS) and Linux (depending on desktop environment).
More related to Linux though, I do tend to lean more toward BSD UNIX than Linux, but due to the lack of containerization and popularity it’s hard to make it a daily OS.
I have an old phone with microg, slack, tasker and termux running on it. When slack receives a push notification, tasker pulls it out and sends it to a script in termux that forwards it to my gotify server, which my main phone is listening for notifications on.
I’ve emailed Slack a bunch of times asking for unified push or even just an API route I can listen on, but so far I’ve had no luck.
Same situation. But notifications is pretty easy to solve. Just set them to go to some private email.
As for accessing the app privately, also easy enough: don’t use the app, use the web interface on a private browser profile.
That’s not possible on mobile without user-agent spoofing the browser to make it appear like a desktop. But then if it’s only messages “every now and then”, that should not be problem. Just keep to desktop, your quality of life has improved already! That is just my own experience, of course.
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Not even!
