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I tried this a few years ago out of curiosity and couldn't get it to work at all. Tried again now and the UX seems more polished but got "sorry Briar has crashed" immediately after trying to add a contact.

I am always surprised at how hard it is to network any nearby devices on any hardware or OS compared to sharing files/messages etc via the Internet.



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