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2 months agoThreema Libre
“F-Droid - Complete independence from Google services”
https://threema.com/en/download/threema-private
One-time purchase. With the built-in option to see your parents’ faces. Or not.
The desktop app is currently in beta and offers multiple-device support on Windows, Macintosh and Linux (flatpak).
This is not to take anything away from any of the other options mentioned here (some of which I also use).
So there’s at least the two of us doing it this way. Syncthing is an absolutely fantastic tool.