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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by dingaling »

CalRobert wrote: post #243
jraph wrote: post #236

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I live in Europe and I can use my bank just fine without their app. I've read somewhere that some banks will let you use their SMS 2FA as long as you haven't already used their mobile app.

Cool, good to know. When I first moved to Ireland you could get a hardware code generator too but I don’t know if that’s still a thing

I use my bank's card reader to authenticate in the hopes that it will signal a need to keep supporting it. But the vast, vast majority of people just use a banking app so I fear it's a lot cause.

Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by chwilson »

0xpgm wrote: post #195

Android basically ran a long bait and switch game. It came out as open source, achieved wide adoption, important online services like banking and government-related moved to it. Now they are locking it all down.

Seems to be Google's playbook unfortunately

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Post by DataDynamo »

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #172
shakna wrote: post #103

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Or most banks, government apps, and so on. Which all require an app to login, rather than support any open and actually secure standard.

Governments that require any particular device, OS, or 3rd-party platform have sold your citizenship to private interests.

But what's your choice as a citizen then - emigrate from your country due to apps?

Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by spaqin »

Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe wrote: post #298
spaqin wrote: post #248

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My LineageOS setup used to do that; until I found that someone found a script that would adjust the memory allocation and OOM killer to more sensible values. I just have that run on boot. No side effects. Unfortunately, that's not an option for most people, the only choice is to complain - but not like there's any other option on the market that behaves better. Or there's some other drawback, or different UI to learn…

Can you share a link to said script please?

Sure; it was one of many posts in xda for a cheapo mid-level Chinese device. I haven't gone through it too deeply to understand and optimize further, works fine as-is to me.

https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-16-official-lineageos-23-for-mi-...

Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by type0 »

dev1ycan wrote: post #277
WorldMaker wrote: post #256

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It's what felt like what really killed Windows Phone. Too many things became "only available" through an iOS or Android app. Windows Phone was free as in beer towards the end and there's a possibility there would have still been a small but devoted techie audience on it, if so many things weren't already so broken from disappearing/vanished app support.

It always seemed insane to me that people accepted so easily to have everything locked behind "app stores", crazy garbage, even worse having SO MUCH PREINSTALLED BLOATWARE OUT OF THE BOX.

Not just out of the box, some phones receive junk apps and ads after you run updates

Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by realusername »

zb3 wrote: post #167
droserasprout wrote: post #114

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I can confirm this holding OP6 (enchilada) in my hands — it's a flagship postmarketOS device. It also has other nerd options available — Sailfish and Windows (Renegade Project) — but obviously with poor hardware support. I highly recommend keeping an eye on postmarketOS blog. [1] It's a fun reading, and development's been really rapid lately. What stopped me from full migration to pmOS the last time I tried it about…

You misunderstood my comment.. this level of "support" is based on hacks = volunteer work, where the community working together (for free) is able to support one device "almost" completely after only 8 years, relying on hacks/reverse engineering etc.. But it's not like OnePlus or Qualcomm officially supports that, right? They didn't have any deal with any OEM where there would be someone employed to support the OS..…

> You misunderstood my comment.. this level of "support" is based on hacks = volunteer work, where the community working together (for free) is able to support one device "almost" completely after only 8 years, relying on hacks/reverse engineering etc..

I guess you have not seen any of actual Qualcomm code yet to say that, Qualcomm code is really what you would define as a pile hacks. Made by hardware engineers with no regards for code quality, maintainability or mainlinability.

OnePlus 6 comparatively is almost mainlined properly from start to finish, with a level of quality that you have nowhere in the mobile world.

Sure this smartphone a bit older but remember the Nokia N900 is still supported and it went out in 2009.

Mainlining mobile devices is very hard, but that's not hacks, that's how it's supposed to be done.

Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by DavideNL »

CalRobert wrote: post #268
DavideNL wrote: post #249

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I also live in Europe, and can use my bank in a webbrowser. I used their App previously, and can just switch back to using the website, after authenticating via both sms and e-mail.

Huh, a Dutch one? ING perchance?

ASN:

https://www.asnbank.nl/service/browsercode.html

Re: I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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Post by raffael_de »

SoftTalker wrote: post #199
jarbus wrote: post #80

I really want to love mobile Linux, and have given it multiple shots before. But I just don't see how it will catch up with iOS/Android in the same way it caught up with Windows/Mac: - OEMs have poured an enormous amount of resources into the camera software, Linux cameras are years behind from what I understand. - Android/iOS have thoroughly optimized the UX in all sorts of subtle ways, the big one being their keybo…

Apple's mobile keyboard is the worst I've used. I basically have to correct about half the words I type.

also the retrograde auto corrections drive me nuts ... like i type a word (correct) then next word and it adjusts the previous word. attempted several times to deactivate that "feature" - didn't figure out how.
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