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Re: Linux phones are more important now than ever

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Post by defrost »

akagusu wrote: post #5

Linux phones are useless for common people until they can run government and bank apps.

Curiously the linked discussion begins:

  apparently it needs to be said that I am not suggesting you switch to Linux on your phone today; just that development needs to accelerate.

  Please don’t be one of the 34 people that replied to tell me Linux is not ready.

Re: Linux phones are more important now than ever

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Post by spankibalt »

> Linux phones are more important now than ever

Agreed. So get to it and design/built some worthwile ones.

EDIT: That was obviously not an order to the the parent, but more a lamentation about and call to the industry. Sorry kids; I sometimes forget that the binars are allergic to ambiguities. :)

Re: Linux phones are more important now than ever

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Post by em-bee »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #11
akagusu wrote: post #5

Linux phones are useless for common people until they can run government and bank apps.

Linux can emulate android. Most banks have websites, and the only real blocker for banking apps I've seen is the photo verification due to hardware issues connecting to the emulated android system.

the app for one of my banks which i need for 2FA won't run on my /e/OS phone.

Re: Linux phones are more important now than ever

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Post by akagusu »

hecanjog wrote: post #14
akagusu wrote: post #5

Linux phones are useless for common people until they can run government and bank apps.

I've had the same (US) bank for 20 years, it's a small one, they have a nice web interface (and I can deposit checks through it on my laptop) but I've never run into a situation where I needed to have some smartphone app to do my banking. (I also don't have a smartphone.) Is this common with major banks? Do they not have web interfaces anymore?

Outside US lots of banks use apps to generate a token and authenticate website transactions.

Re: Linux phones are more important now than ever

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Post by em-bee »

jwrallie wrote: post #6
daoboy wrote: post #3

What is the advantage of a Linux phone over something like LineageOS?

If things keep going in the direction they are, there might not be a LineageOS at some point, and developing a useful alternative before that (Linux based) would be great.

so we fork and continue to work on lineageOS. why start from scratch? (i mean, it's nice to have alternatives, but there is no reason not to continue developing an android fork.

Re: Linux phones are more important now than ever

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Post by staviette »

debo_ wrote: post #23

I didn't know syncthing-android had been discontinued. I use that app heavily. (Linked from the post: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi... )

The fork by Catfriend01 available through F-Droid works great...for now. I too use it heavily and worry about it's future on android.
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