Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day

tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  (“Linux” here as in “GNU/Linux”, as opposed to “the Linux kernel”, which Android phones also use.)

  I feel compelled to point out that PostmarketOS, one of the popular Linux phone options is not, in fact GNU. It’s based on musl and BusyBox, not glibc and GNU utils.

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• turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s generally true. Personally, I enjoy using a laptop way more than using a mobile device of any kind.

  However, modern life is beginning to require mobile apps (Android or iOS). More and more things simply aren’t available as a website or FOSS. You have to have a vanilla mainstream mobile device to do certain things like using your bank account. I really hate that.

  Hardware peripherals are another area that really sucks. If you want to enjoy the comforts of modern life, many people just bow down and use one of the two mobile platforms in order to use their smart ring/scale/lights/curtains/heating/car, etc.

  Resisting all that is getting increasingly difficult, because there’s so much to resist. On the other hand, it’s also becoming increasingly appealing as enshittification intensifies.

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• JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  carrying a laptop won’t help. If it helped, I won’t mind running a termux os via proot also. I dont mind if it isn’t optimised for small touchscreen yet.

  right now most mobile payment options in my country only work with android/ios. My bank requires a phone for its device token (2fa).

  The food and cab ordering platform is also exclusively on mobile only.

  very sad

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My bank requires a phone for its device token (2fa).

    In most cases (at least in the US…I suppose that there might be places that require use of a state bank or something) one can pick their bank. None of the banks I bank with require this, and I have never installed a banking app (though I think that they all have an app as an option). One may need a phone of some sort to respond to a voice call or an SMS to validate oneself. I believe that Bank of America has the most customers in the US, and they’ll even do YubiKeys.

    The food and cab ordering platform is also exclusively on mobile only.

    I think that GrubHub and Uber Eats are the most-common food delivery options where I am. It looks like both permit ordering from the Web (though I’ve never used their services).

    Waymo, which in the US is, I think, the most-advanced robotaxi service (and probably currently the only really practical one where I am), does require an app, so I don’t know if there’s a good Web-based robotaxi option. Lyft looks to me like it requires use of an app. Uber looks like it permits Web-based ordering. I’ve never used anything but traditional cab companies (not that I especially object to the newer services, just never bothered to use them), and I’ve never run into one of those that requires an app — I just call up a human.

    This isn’t to say that the same situation is true of where you are. But just pointing out that for many people, there are options…though it may require using an alternative service. Those services will be aware of how many people are ordering in what way, so if people are using different methods of ordering, that will cause them (and others) to tend to provide that route.

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    • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve ordered an Uber from the mobile site when I got a flat on a long bike ride. It worked fine and I haven’t had the app installed since. I only use it 2-3 times a year. I would have preferred to use Lyft, but it didn’t tell me I couldn’t use the mobile site until after I had already jumped through their hoops reinstated my account. Fuck you Lyft!

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