Linux Phones

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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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We need to support Linux Phones development more now than ever based on recent news (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in the future. They’re going to eventually ban adblockers for chromium. We need to quickly respond with alternatives to android, we must end this market consolidation.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What are the current viable choices for everyday use? I currently use a Pixel 6a with Graphene and I like it a lot as it does everything I want it to. It doesn't work with my bank app but I don't really care about that as I just use a browser when I need to access it.

Ubuntu touch, postmarket and sailfish are the ones I have heard of but I don't know what state they are in in terms of how usable they are on a day to day basis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can only comment on postmarketOS as I‘m using that on a near daily basis. It is great and fund to use. It’s not end user ready yet though. Normal stuff works. Watching videos on firefox or a native app, music, phone, messages. All no problem. Just cameras are a problem atm, next to some quirks that need ironing out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the reply. I really don't care about camera use, that is like bottom of my list of things I give a shit about on a phone, so I may give this a try at some point and see how I find it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Hey I'm curious. Is there a speciffic feature Graphene doesn't support that your bank app requires? I'm in Australia, and am planning to use GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone, so I'm wondering if my bank app would be affected too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

When government/corporate services are involved, I suggest doing as much as you can via the web browser as opposed to app, in the interests of privacy and civil liberty.

So long as it's going through the browser we have a degree of control over functionality and connectivity. Apps strip that away. Apps are you doing everything on their terms, while suffering an ad (their logo) on your home screen rent-free. You can pin browser bookmarks to home as well in Android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True. For some reason I was sure I remembered the mobile version of my banks website not working for actual banking, but it turns out it does, at least currently. Hopefully it stays that way and they don't push too hard for the app. If they do drop it, I can always block app trackers with a DNS service like Mullvad or Quad9

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hello, pixel 8 grapheneOS user here. I was going to say that some bank apps don't work like chase bank and I went to look for a compatibility list and it said it worked. As it turns out, I just had to enable a setting for that app and now it works just fine. So I guess look at the compatibility list and the comments listed.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks, my bank is compatible according to that list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When I first started using graphene my bank app worked fine but at the beginning of this year my bank decided that it would dent access to any phone that is rooted.

So it isn't really an issue with graphene itself it is more that I dare to root my device and my arsehole bank believes I shouldn't do this!

Meh, for me it doesn't take any more effort to just log in from my browser. It just has an added step each time of having to receive a text and enter a code. I only really use it maybe twice a month anyway so it is no drama for me.