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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ubuntu Touch works well on my fairphone.

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  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very cool! I’m thinking of going for ubuntu touch, seeing as Android has proven that it’s no longer worth the time investment. Also, Fairphone 5 is my next phone if the current one dies, so it works out.

    Could you share what do you really like about it? And what is your biggest gripe or letdown with it? Thanks!

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s using Hallium, which is still using Android kernel and drivers, hopefully they can keep that up while vendors are getting increasingly antagonistic.

      It is private.

      If you want to run some android apps you can use waydroid, but it torches the battery.

      If you want to run arm linux apps, you need to dork around with containers as the root os is RO.

      I’m sitting on the fence of shelling out for a decen FP

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Beats me! I’m in the process of moving banking and payment off my phone in preparation for a Linux one. These things will very likely not work on non-proprietary devices.

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  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    These things will very likely not work on non-proprietary devices.

    Depends on your bank. Most work on alternate OS (like GrapheneOS), and of course some don’t. privsec.dev/…/banking-applications-compatibility-…

    If an app (especially bank) doesn’t work, I forward them this and try to ELI5 that their current method is flawed and less secure: grapheneos.org/…/attestation-compatibility-guide

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    • progandy@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is fine and all, but then you still have to run a release built and signed by the grapheneos devs.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reverse the question:

    Which bank can be used with a linux phone?

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  • Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m in the process of moving banking and payment off my phone

    Go on… How are you doing so?

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    • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Going for plastic when paying instead of using a digital wallet, using the banks’ websites for transactions instead of the app.

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      • Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, yeah, absolutely. Mobile apps should only ever be used for check-scanning or for features that the online banking simply doesn’t allow (which would be messed up of the bank to do); same with mobile wallets.

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