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F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by lmz »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #56
OfSanguineFire wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Banks in many countries require an Android phone for online banking. Even if they offer an online-banking website that you can access with any browser, you may still need the Android app for 2FA. This is one of a number of reasons why the PinePhone or Librem is unfortunately not a daily driver. Also, things like paying for parking or interacting with public services are moving to Android apps in some places.

Is that even legal ? Banking and public services are too important to be restricted to people with smartphone ownership (even regardless of OS). It's even more important to refuse to use them, publicly shame them, and complain about them failing at their duties.

Before smartphones some banks used a hardware token to authenticate web transactions, but now that is being moved to (non rooted) smartphones.

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by drampelt »

raybb wrote: post #27

Today I learned KDEConnect has a MacOS app. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be actively developed. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html

I've been using Soduto, a 3rd party KDE Connect client, on the Mac for a few years now and it works quite well for my needs

https://soduto.com/

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by tortoise_in »

HansHamster wrote: post #60
notpushkin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LineageOS is supported on a bit more devices, and works with microG if you're willing to sacrifice Google Pay for better battery life and less privacy violations: https://lineage.microg.org/

LineageOS unfortunately dropped support for my Moto G4 relatively quickly after I installed it and it only was supported up to Android 7.1. I have been running an unofficial build of 8.1 ever since, but that is also horribly outdated by now.

Dude buy something new

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by raybb »

drampelt wrote: post #72
raybb wrote: post #27

Today I learned KDEConnect has a MacOS app. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be actively developed. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html

I've been using Soduto, a 3rd party KDE Connect client, on the Mac for a few years now and it works quite well for my needs https://soduto.com/

Thanks for sharing! Looks like there is now a more active fork at https://github.com/sannidhyaroy/Soduto

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by boudin »

Arnt wrote: post #40
nolok wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand what you mean ? F-droid doesn't ship a keyboard app.

The AOSP keyboard was available on f-droid when I installed f-droid, and the f-droid app kept nagging me to replace the keyboard app on my phone with the debloated AOSP version from f-droid. Debloated, in this case, meaning without support for minority languages such as mine.

There's nothing intentional there. If the keyboard you had installed was also distributed via F-Droid using the same APK identifier, then F-Droid just detects an update since it's the same app.

To prevent this (it can happen with most apps distributed both on the play store and F-Droid) you can tell F-Droid to ignore updates for a specific app.

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by HansHamster »

tortoise_in wrote: post #73
HansHamster wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LineageOS unfortunately dropped support for my Moto G4 relatively quickly after I installed it and it only was supported up to Android 7.1. I have been running an unofficial build of 8.1 ever since, but that is also horribly outdated by now.

Dude buy something new

But why waste the money? I intend to use this thing until it breaks...

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by [deleted] »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #29
neilv wrote: post #2

One way to be a little less constantly violated by your phone is to run GrapheneOS, instead of iOS or ordinary Android: https://grapheneos.org/

It's still based on Android though - so isn't it building on sand ? Isn't it better to focus our efforts on projects unrelated to Android, especially since some viable ones have appeared recently : Librem 5 and especially PinePhone.

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Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by fsflover »

jacooper wrote: post #30
BlueTemplar wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still based on Android though - so isn't it building on sand ? Isn't it better to focus our efforts on projects unrelated to Android, especially since some viable ones have appeared recently : Librem 5 and especially PinePhone.

No it isn't, as unlike the others, grapheneOS is actually usable and dailyable.

I doubt grapheneOS requires much less effort to daily drive than others. Sent from my Librem 5.

Re: F-Droid version of KDEConnect uninstalled by PlayProtect

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Post by fsflover »

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #61
user_7832 wrote: post #58

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While I can understand Google and the banking apps' actions, it doesn't make much sense given how PCs having root is hardly every a concern for a bank. If you can do something bad with banking on a rooted device, it's probably doable on a computer too.

Oh, banks are definitely concerned about PCs having root. There are even some banks that have removed their online banking websites entirely (except, perhaps, for corporate clients) and require customers to do everything through the Android app instead.

Which is why I was switching banks until I found one not forcing me into the duopoly.
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