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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The solution is to get a phone that does two things.

  1. Connect to a mobile network
  2. Share the link via hotspot to device of choice

Now you can do whatever you want with a mobile Linux device or anything your heart desires with your hotspot.

Set the bar low. Put out a product. Get traction.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But I still won't be able to use it to access those mentioned services, due to the Digital ID not working on Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can you elaborate?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    In Sweden we have something called "Bank-ID" its a digital ID. Most services such as logging in to renew medical receipts, access your tax information, and file your taxes, pay your bills, access your bank. Buy insurance, cancel insurance. Think anytime it would be unreasonable to not verify your identity, you need bank-id. It is basically a certificate you generate together with your bank, that can only be accessed through the bank-id app/application depending on if you have it installed on your desktop or phone. Everytime a website has Bank-id integrated as a login method. You will need to scan a QR-code with the app or initiate the app from the website. Then type in your code to authenticate. Voila you have verified yourself. This requires their proprietary application, and the certification that lives in the app is issued by Bank-id. So you are locked in

    Edit: basically in Sweden any linux phone without working bank-ID would be dead in the water from the start.

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