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

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Post by megous » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 9:02 AM UTC

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #215

vinceguidry wrote: post #210

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I don't know what the deal is with Linux and cameras. I've got Fedora installed on this old Retina MBP and apparently Linux somehow stopped supporting the built in webcam. I've never heard of a device losing Linux support but here we are.

Once the code is in the mainline kernel tree, things tend to stay supported indefinitely. Some devices "work" without having real support by having some binary blob or third party code which is written against a specific kernel version. The code has to be updated when the kernel changes, which is why it's supposed to be in the kernel tree, but because it isn't the kernel developers don't know anything about it and ar…

Once code is in mainline, it's in mainline. It doesn't mean things will work, lol. It means things will rather regularly break, because many people modify shared code you depend on without ability to test on your particular HW.

Not saying pushing mainline is bad. But assumption there's any kind of "support" is wrong. Code is there. That's all. You have to support it if you want it to work.

(This is very particular to HW/drivers support, Linux core is supported well, I guess.)

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

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Post by mdp2021 » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC

emj wrote: post #386

mdp2021 wrote: post #282

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> stopped using cash You stopped using cash? It is one of the most insane things I ever heard. You transactions are tracked, I assume? The rule in the eu (PSD2) is that a dozen private/public/hybrid/other databases, of unclear substantial identity, will record your transactions. And what if you had a an infrastructural shortage? No transactions then? How can people think of "cashless society" as something outside a d…

Because cash sucks. Haven't used cash in 10 years. I agree it is problematic. I guess a high trust society enables it NL and SE are such places.

> a high trust society

That is in fact a highly naïve, direly naïve society: (*) the data is not contained into national boundaries by law already, and (*) you cannot know what will happen to the country and society in n years time.

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

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Post by Anonyneko » Mon, Aug 10, 2026, 7:03 PM UTC

jraph wrote: post #349

Anonyneko wrote: post #287

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Still a thing with some of the Finnish banks, as I've recently learned. In my bank it costs ~20€ - unless you can't physically use a smartphone, in which case it's free. But you kinda have to know that it exists.

> unless you can't physically use a smartphone Like, because of a disability, or because you don't have a smartphone? In the latter case, would it work to just go to the bank with a dumb phone?

I think it's either. With Nordea, it's seemingly based on whether you are already using the mobile ID app or not.

They also have a different "Talk Device" that is specifically meant for people with disabilities and such, which is supposedly free to get once (80€ for replacements), but the page doesn't specify who can order it.