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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)

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 23 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 14 hours ago

They should be required, tbh

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 13 hours ago (2 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.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] BurgerBaron@quokk.au 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 2 hours 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.