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I used Linux on a phone for 30 days, here's why I'm sticking with it, and why you likely won't! (tilvids.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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[–] 16 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Don’t banks have websites he can log into?

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  • [–] 29 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Banks that are platform-agnostic should be favoured by the linux enthusiasts.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Do you know of any banks that are platform agnostic? I don't think it's a matter of the banks choosing to exclude other operating systems as much as a matter of internal resources to develop and maintain a secure app on an OS few of their users would use.

    If you know of any banks that have apps that work on a Linux phone I think that'd be a great list to start and pin to the community.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The compatible list would be like GrapheneOS's right? Apps that'll work with MicroG without the full Google Play service. Both banking apps I use do. Only one of those two banks will let me login without the app however, the desktop website forces use of their app as an authenticator.

    edit: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    It's become easier to do many things without Play Services and even microg, as many apps have been adapted for Google-free Huawei devices :D

    But we still need a lot more open APIs, then people can just build alternative software that's FOSS.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    This is so fucked up to read. Maybe we should all start going back to analog life for about 2 years. For the time it takes for a phone to become obsolete in features, we should just all decide to go back to analog life. Imagine how many stocks would plummet.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    As a Norwegian I’m required to use an app called BankID to log into various government services and banks. And that one does not run on «non secure» OSes

    Although that might change with the whole EU pushing for open source etc

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    All mine do, and as some of their apps don't work on GrapheneOS, my solution has been to add links to their website to my homepage. It's not that big of an inconvenience for me personally

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    In my country they kinda force you into using their apps since you must use them as 2FA to login..so even if you try to use the website, you're forced to use the freaking app..that many times does not work with custom Roms..I've been jumping around for 2 years, bank to bank app. Once it stops working I open an account at a different one and try to use the App..banking is the one thing that keeps people from leaving Google's Android IMHO

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