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I think the second problem is unrelated to the smartphone OS. You can use Uber using only the website, a smartphone is not even needed to use it.
Well I’m a tech person and I’d never think of using the browser. But thanks
Mobile apps are mostly black boxes in that regard.
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Sorry but thats a statement thats just willfully ignorant. Yes people need to have access to their financials when under way. That can range for PushTans, CreditCard Confirmations, to checking their budgets, moving something from one account to another, topping up your Prepaid Card. Or just being able to Pay with a Card on your Phone when you forgot your Wallet. Sure you could say I do not go out and do not need that…
But you can do all those things via a browser.
You don't get TANs in the browser, can't tap "approve" on the application-only notification, can't pay with the banking app (for those banks which offer it) without the banking app.
...and willfully ignorant given that some banks are mobile (app) only.
For all the "My Banking Apps don't work", I'd raise one question: Do you really need access to banking apps on the go? I get that it can be handy and maybe you legit do, but I'd wager most people don't really do. If you can pay by phone you can pay by card and the card has less potentially to weirdly break. And if your bank demands a phone app to be used, you can always have a cheap stock android lying around at home…
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Sorry but thats a statement thats just willfully ignorant. Yes people need to have access to their financials when under way. That can range for PushTans, CreditCard Confirmations, to checking their budgets, moving something from one account to another, topping up your Prepaid Card. Or just being able to Pay with a Card on your Phone when you forgot your Wallet. Sure you could say I do not go out and do not need that…
I very purposefully added both the "and maybe you legit do" and the fact that I'm a bad case study.
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I think it's healthy for a population to not have as part of day-to-day life to pay with credit, effectively paying with money you might not actually have, going into debt. How many US citizens are crippled by credit card debt, and the interest on it?
Using debit or credit cards is unrelated to the UX. Both are available with google wallet or physically.
Physical CC can be used by anyone holding it or actually just standing close.
Contactless payment with phone only after the phone is unlocked().
Physical card contactless payments have a limit (don't remember it) after which you have to use it with pin. At least all mine. Boring. Payments with apple/hoogle/Garmin have higher transaction limit.
I could probably go on longer but these are for me.
() I know it can be done without, but it also can be done with.
PSA: For folks looking for a swipe enabled keyboard on GrapheneOS without using Google's gboard, try Heliboard - https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/ . It's 100% FOSS, but can also use the binary blob from google's gesture typing library "swypelibs" to provide swipe typing. Since helium can't access the internet, I am okay with that.
How does this compare to FlorisBoard?
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I know very little about lineageos. Their website contains very few docs, so I don't really understand what's this project is about. They don't mention Pixel 10, so I guess it's not supported. GrapheneOS website in comparison contains a lot of things to read, so after a hour of thorough reading I had good impression what GrapheneOS is.
LineageOS was one of the OG de-googled Android ROMs, renamed a few years after Android Jellybean IIRC. This new glass UI and the Face ID kind of not working anymore since upgrading my iPhone, I think I’ll be going back to Android
Existing since 2009 as CyanogenMod and since 2016 as LineageOS, that would have been around the time where Android 7 (Nougat) was current.
PS: Not that we are in any way degoogled, other than what we are forced to by the license.
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LineageOS was one of the OG de-googled Android ROMs, renamed a few years after Android Jellybean IIRC. This new glass UI and the Face ID kind of not working anymore since upgrading my iPhone, I think I’ll be going back to Android
> LineageOS was one of the OG de-googled Android ROMs, renamed a few years after Android Jellybean IIRC. Existing since 2009 as CyanogenMod and since 2016 as LineageOS, that would have been around the time where Android 7 (Nougat) was current. PS: Not that we are in any way degoogled, other than what we are forced to by the license.
… and thank you for your continued effort! I have very big love for CyanogenMod/LineageOS, and that’s coming from a heavy pre-XDA user (I’ve had them all - PalmOS, Zaraus, XDA o2, Maemo, FirefoxOS, Ubuntu phone user).
PSA: For folks looking for a swipe enabled keyboard on GrapheneOS without using Google's gboard, try Heliboard - https://f-droid.org/packages/helium314.keyboard/ . It's 100% FOSS, but can also use the binary blob from google's gesture typing library "swypelibs" to provide swipe typing. Since helium can't access the internet, I am okay with that.
Personally I would just love Apple to be forced by governments to open up their hardware by releasing complete documentation of their hardware and allowing to install another os or dual boot. iPhones hardware is really good and would love booting Linux on theses. And then force every services company to provide an API to their services so we have an alternative to their app. I guess Motorola partnering with GrapheneO…