slack-term VS mmsd

You can still find terminal interfaces for a lot of these things, including Slack: https://github.com/jpbruinsslot/slack-term. I don't use Emacs but I imagine you could integrate that somehow if you wanted to.

If I accepted having an intermediate jump box, then things go even farther down. Any with a telnet client works, and with something like ZiModem that opens up literally anything with a serial port. I've done "real" work from an Atari 8-bit and Commodore 64 by telnetting to a jumpbox and then sshing into my work Macbook. Spending a whole day that way would be pretty challenging but it could be done. Throw in slack-term and I was able to even keep up with company chat. I was only doing it for fun so I didn't go all the way but I could have set up our g-suite in a terminal IMAP client.

Slack/Discord This is the biggest gap for me so far. I haven't figured out how to get slack or discord to load in firefox. Those sites just redirect me to a page that tells me to download the Android app, even if I spoof the user agent. I use Slack for work, and Discord for communicating with some friends and family, so I'd still like to figure this out. The closest I've found for slack is slack-term which is terminal-based and seems to be abandoned. But it actually works (not well, but you can read and write messages), though the user experience is truly terrible on the phone, since you have to use the on-screen keyboard to do anything. Supposedly there is a matrix bridge, but I haven't tried it yet.

NB. On integrating slack & other webby things. Terminal applications might be a big help here (the Windows terminal now has excellent compatibility if you’re using Windows). For instance, there’s a slack plugin for weechat (a terminal IRC / chat client) which by all accounts works pretty well. Or there’s this client that runs directly in a terminal.

> MMS or Multimedia Messages are supported by gammu but they are stored in a binary format I have yet to find documentation on how to make something usable out of it for download. Any info in it is greatly appreciated.

You could look at this implementation: mmsd-tng [1]. It is used to handle MMSes on the PinePhone for instance.

[1] https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd/

I installed mmsd-tng from Chris Talbot's repo (I don't run Mobian unstable and didn't wanna go fetch the package from there), and installed Chatty from Purism's repo per the Mobian docs. To be sure of no conflicts, I carefully uninstalled the existing Chatty via dpkg -r --force-deps chatty to remove just Chatty without taking Phosh out with it.

Apparently MMS isn't used much outside of North America so it's not as high of a priority. I' on Mobian and use Janky MMS to at least receive them, but I still can't send them. There is also an MMS daemon that someone created to at least process them, but getting a messaging app to pick them up is still a challenge. They are also working on getting it integrated into Chatty. Apparently its getting pretty close but its kind of slow going because its mostly one guy working on it. So if you're any good with C (especially UI design) they are always open for more contributors.

To get it working, you basically need a fork of mmsd (i.e. mmsd-tng) and you need an app that can pull the MMS messages in. The same developer who has worked on mmsd (kop316) has spent a good amount of time updating Chatty/Chats with his own custom branch, though it is quite barebones and really only allows receiving MMS images as file:// links in the UX. It sounds like Purism will eventually get around to implementing this in the UX but it may not be for months.