Canuck

@Canuck@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitchat is a new private Bluetooth messaging app that doesn’t need the internet – here’s how it works⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Briar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are Google Play Android bank apps (mine works fine), and you can use mobile sites as dedicated app drawer icons.

  NFC payments won’t come anytime soon to native GNU/Linux, but I don’t use them. Maybe Google Wallet works, I haven’t tried and don’t know if NFC can be passed through to Waydroid. OnePlus 6 is the best supported originally Android phone for GNU/Linux, someone with that would need to test.

  I just have my card in a silicon sleeve on the back of the phone and I get the same effect. I’d rather Google not have my purchase history anyways. Haven’t had issues with my banking app via Android, and their mobile site is top notch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Satnav there is Pure Maps (OSM client), which can connect to sources like HERE to get traffic data to provide voiced guided turn-by-turn instructions. Of course there is also all the Android apps like Google Maps available, and their mobile site works fine.

  On the topic of mobile sites, you can also install them as dedicated app drawer icons via Gnome Web & Firefox PWA for any site.

  This means if your bank app doesn’t like vanilla Android, GApps, you can use a comparable dedicated web app.

  For parking, I’ve found a surprising amount have mobile sites, so I don’t need to install their bloaty Android app onto my GNU/Linux phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Waydroid, Anbox, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mobile GNU/Linux is getting better, but I think it is 5-10 years out from what’s needed. I suppose people need to adopt Desktop first. The nice thing is you can install Android apps including Google Play on it natively, and they appear in your app drawer like a regular app

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin/YT/Twitch TV box (Raspberry pi 4)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was considering what to run, I found LineageOS TV provided the best experience for being able to get all the other TV apps, and even Jackbox Games. Many TV apps offer some content free with ads, which can be taken care of. Android TV interface only shows Android TV apps in the main app drawer though.

  I loved Debian with KDE Big Screen on the pi for the customizability. You can run scripts like fetching tv schedules right on it (or you can just do this on your jellyfin server), and generally you have more customizability. I run PWAs as well via Firefox. I found Steam Link difficult to get working unless on Buster or earlier.

  For remote, I tried out all the ones on Amazon, and found USB connection to be most reliable, and there’s one that has a keyboard on the reverse, and an option to do voice control from the remote that’s a major 🔑

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never had an issue with them. Writing from my Librem 5

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro racing game?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jet Moto series on PS1