Nah. With an Android device, you can install the Signal app (it’s even on FDroid now). You’ll need a phone number to register it, but just to receive the code. Could be a mobile number you have, a landline, or a VoIP (ie, jmp.chat) number-- as long as you haven’t already registered for Signal with it.

A Linux device could pose some difficulty, but I think there is progress being made on running Android apps.

Edit: sorry, forgot some of the context here. Leaving it since I’m pretty sure you can install Android on a RasPi.

That’s cool, hadn’t really thought about it. Basically looking for a wifi-only device I can install Signal on.

I’m amazed I can’t find such a thing on AliExpress.

Rootable Android (or Linux) based “mp3 player”. Basically an iPod touch. No cell radio.

Absolutely right. We didn’t destroy fascism in 1945, and we didn’t win the labor struggle once and for all either. These forces will keep trying to come back, and we have to keep suppressing them over and over.

Who is going to charge him? Who is going to enforce it? Wake up and stop pretending that “the law” is some sort of binding spell.