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How long till they cut off access?
You will likely need to update every two weeks or it will stop working
It's not an assumption. The vanilla Signal app has code in it that disables itself after a certain period without updates. Unless they removed that from this app, then this will do the same thing.
Not just updates, you need to periodically poll for messages as well, anyone who runs signal-cli runs into these issues
The second Signal works out that this exists.