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[+] 111 points 1 year ago (36 children)
  • [–] 90 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (31 children)

    I switched from Google to Apple back in 2018 and the royal fucking up lately is making me start looking at how to go back.

    I’m really disappointed with the direction and lack of quality from Apple these last few years.

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  • [+] 37 points 1 year ago (26 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    2026 is the year of the Linux phone

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    More like 2026 + 10, Linux phones are severely lagging behind, enough so that they are at least 10 years away from having enough adoption for banks and the like to recognize their existence, the annoying truth is that it cannot be mainstream until it is able to use these critical apps with no workarounds as "it works but isn't allowed" will be the death knell of any amount of mainstream appeal.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I'm so tired of hearing people cry about banking apps. If you've got a working web browser you'll survive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (7 children)

    How do you deal with 2fa? For capital one in particular, I don't believe there is an option not to use their app, and the other banks that I use are in the same boat or adamantly recommend to use their app.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I use capital ones website on graphene OS and have full access even to temporary cards and all that.

    It didn't want to play nice with Vanadium so I had to use Brave browser just for the banking stuff. I have a friend who uses cashapp and chase banking that way as well.

    Only thing that doesn't work is tap to pay and its only because Google are dicks and won't allow it. Small price to pay to not have one of their spyware loaded versions of android on the phone though in my opinion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What is your 2fa method, I cannot sign in to the website without it and the only options I have been presented are SMS and app verification.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I do SMS however before I had this phone I had a regular stock android phone with the Capital One app on it and I wonder if yours isn't working maybe you can use the app on a stock android and set up SMS verification on that, then switch to the other non stock androids phone and I bet it will work.

    You might not have to take this step, but if it isn't working with SMS verification on the Brave browser try that and see if it works.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mentioned it elsewhere in the comments, but in my experience, payment portals have redirected me to a verification page that has two options app verification and customer support, even though I have SMS setup. I contacted capital one and the rep said it was working as intended.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you tried the above yet? Try it.

    And if that doesn't work contact their customer service and say you don't have the option to use another device and you need to set up SMS verification or you're going to have to consider another card. I bet it will work.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Have you tried the above yet? Try it.

    I fail to see how it would help, the issue arises when I try to use a payment portal like there is for caixa bank transactions, SMS is a valid way for me to sign in to my account, but not to confirm a payment.

    And if that doesn't work contact their customer service and say you don't have the option to use another device and you need to set up SMS verification or you're going to have to consider another card. I bet it will work.

    I would have to disagree with your take, their customer service is 80% ai and 20% call center, none of the people you would talk to care or have the power to answer a threat like this.

    I appreciate the ideas, but at the moment I don't see a way of getting around my issues.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago (12 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    one of the reasons mobile phone theft is so lucrative, because people are so obliging to keep their entire financial information downloaded to a single device

    [Citation needed]

    The most common reason for mobile phone theft is to wipe it and sell it, or just dismantle it for parts.

    No common thief is going to be trying to break into an iPhone's security system to get to someone's banking data.

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

    Even if they manage to keep the phone unlocked, and even if they manage to get to a safe spot before I am able to lock the device remotely, they still can't access any banking applications because they require the PIN/biometrics to get in, even on an unlocked phone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's amazing how Americans love poking their nose into everyone else's affairs yet can be so oblivious. For some people a phone is literally the only device they have, they can't do anything else.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    How do you deal with 2fa? For capital one in particular, I don't believe there is an option not to use their app, and the other banks that I use are in the same boat or adamantly recommend to use their app.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The standard for banks like capital one is, in order to login in a browser you must use their app 2fa, they do not support third party 2fa methods, and their app doesn't work under compatibility layers. That last part may come with a workaround, but my earlier point is that the normal end user wouldn't feel comfortable using such a thing if it is not officially allowed.

    They also claim you can use 2fa by SMS, but that is first and foremost wrong since it isn't an option for payment portals, and secondly insecure.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I'm this close to getting a fucking TomTom. I need something that can do turn by turn navigation in a car, ideally through Android Auto, but nothing good goes on Android Auto anymore.

    How long until we crack this protocol anyway so we can use Linux phones with Android Auto?

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

    Same, I had been on android since the OG Droid and switched around the same time for similar reasons.

    If Apple is going to charge premium prices just to splash ads on their products I’m moving on again.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The ads don’t bother me as much as the low QA lately. I upgraded to iOS26 and it’s the buggiest product ever. I have the newest iPhone pro/max and it should be able to handle it fine. Siri never works, apps crash, freeze, the interface is extremely ugly to look at (the liquid crap). Just overall it feels half assed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, I have an iPhone 15 Pro and Safari is freezing or just not even allowing me to close windows until I restart the app sometimes. That or websites won’t load and then I restart the app and try again and they load fine.

    I haven’t tried turning it off yet, but my suspicion is the Liquid Glass and all the stuff it needs to do is taking priority.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it’s more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    I was so hopeful they might just skip one yearly release and focus on bug fixes and technical debt. But then they go and change the name of the version to match the calendar year, and now I’m convinced we’re never going to get a stable iOS again.

    ヽ( `д´*)ノ

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Fuck I just started using it because of how horribly shit google maps has become

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

    If you don't need traffic data, CoMaps (uses OpenStreet Map data).

    If you do need traffic data (understandable) Magic Earth is what I use. It's unfortunately not fully open source, only the map data is from OSM, but I find the navigation good 95% of the time, sometimes you have to make your own judgement for if a route might have bad traffic. At least it's not Google or Apple, and no ads.

    I don't do car play, so I have no idea about how that works.

    I wish we had better alternatives or that cars all exploded and we went to public transport and walkable cities

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

    I don't use maps often but what's been going wrong in Google maps? I know whatever Uber/Lyft was using was having a hard time keeping up with local changes (bridges being shut down for months would stay on every driver's directions), they'd switch to Google to get an accurate map

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    It’s still accurate for directions, but search results and map viewing have gone to shit because of google accepting money to highlight certain businesses - taking up huge chunks of the map with their square icons

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I uninstalled it when it told me to turn left at the Wendy’s™ instead of a fucking street name. After I missed my turn and got to my destination late, I looked it up and the place it was talking about was visually obscured by another building so I couldn’t have possibly known where to turn. Fuck that noise.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Everything is shitty! 🎶

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    So much for the "Apple is all about privacy whereas Google monetizes you" schtick.

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  • [–] 116 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    If you're not paying for it, you are the product; except for with 🍏 and then it's both.

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

    they did pay 1000$+ phones just to have ads on it.

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

    Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    i bought a min OP12R, i had delete a couple apps i dont use on it. A carrier issued phone has even worst bloat. I just disabled most of the google ones, like play, and WALLET because it kept activating tag (fare machine)on public transport, i had to do a work around since there wasnt an easy way to completely eliminate that.

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  • [+] -32 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    OK, so if I'm on Apple hardware, for now, what's the best alternative to "Apple Maps"?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Organic Maps or OsmAnd is out there, just saying.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Organic Maps is so fucking good, I keep so much of it downloaded as a backup for when I'm offline, because it just works. That said, I still use Google maps due to the reviews of businesses and traffic data when navigating normally, but it's good to know a great alternative is out there.

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

    You might want to switch to CoMaps. Most developers fled there after the owners of Organic Maps showed shady behaviour regarding donations and the future of the project

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

    I'll check it out. Any links to articles on the shady behavior?

    Edit: CoMaps is like Organic Maps but better, regardless of the development practices, neato.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’m reportedly getting ready to move to CoMaps.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I know this is my own personal experience, but diehard Apple fans in my circle have started to say, "Fuck Apple." I think they're PR and goodwill is finally running out.

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

    Steve Jobs, for all his other problems, knew how to run a company and held to the idea that they needed to make good products. He kept the prices fairly low for what they were, and they even decreased over time for many of their products. He wouldn’t allow unfinished products to be released which is a big reason why I always laughed at Android people who claimed “first” with their buggy, shitty versions of the reliable thing Apple made a couple years later.

    But then for some reason he let Tim Cook, who had been an idiot at Apple for a long time and Job’s knew it, take over. Since then prices have sky-rocketed and the company has started releasing stuff that just isn’t up to the standards they held in the past. He even took power away from the guy who had come up with Apple’s iconic aesthetic.

    Whether or not people want to admit, Apple made excellent products and the customers aren’t nearly as stupid as people want to believe. So when shit like this happens we understandably get pissed because, surprise, many of us actually have been paying attention.

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

    I have a lot of shot to say about Steve Jobs, but he knew what asthetics he wanted. He would loathe the current trend with phones having a camera bulge. Look at all the iPhones released under him, look at the back of them. If they had a camera it was flush with the back of the phone.

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

    sure, but do you think Jobs be okay with a severely underpowered camera or super thick phone compared to the competition? Neither of those things happened under him either.

    It's not that simple to blame Cook for everything that's different about iphones now. It was a lot easier to stick to rigid principles in the early days when the market was wide open and the tech rapidly maturing every year. They were making money hand over fist just picking off the low hanging fruit of smartphone evolution. They ran out of obvious upgrades pretty much when Cook took over and have shareholders to answer to. Hence more expensive phones, subscription services, and ads.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Between this and android phones with ads on lockscreens, I'm ready for someone to finally release a good Linux phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    or at least something I can install on a Google pixel

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    "What the fuck you gonna do? Use Android?!??! Fuck you and and be happy about it" - Tim Apple, probably

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

    Sundar Pichai: "Huh, well I guess we'll just follow Tim Apple's lead and start injecting ads in google maps and anyone who uses google maps API too."

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