Government should make standards for banks to support different operating systems. Not particularly well known OS.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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just give us a headphone jack and removable storage and you'll have a customer for life.
I wouldn't mind easily swappable batteries
Check out the Fairphone 5
Good specs for the price. No headphone jack tho.
Xperia 1 VI?
I am sorely tempted, but its unlikely my banking apps and very specific work 2fa app is anything but Apple and Android compatible. I am almost at the stage of getting a second phone for day to day, and keeping my old for specific apps
You should consider changing bank if they don't provide a regular website with at least the same functions as their app.
Most banks these days need their app as well to log in to their website because of forced two factor authentication
Ah yes, so easy. Just change banks bro.
Sometimes I wonder if there are Anya cual adults using Linux. Lol
Actually, what is hard about changing banks? I give my bank info to as few entities as possible. And almost all of them would take a few clicks and possibly a few days to verify some tiny transaction and I would be done. Changing credit cards is far harder. But also. Why are you using the banks app on your phone. That phone is probably the least secure electronic you own. The attack surface on that thing is absolutely huge.
The new bank will happily organise anything for you, and if not, it is not the right bank, because they clearly don’t want you as customer, like this.
Customer support generally gets worse as you are longer at the same bank because you are more and more less likely to switch your bank staying at a bank. They invest in the customers they see risks of loosing or see a change of winning the most.
It could be up to hours of mild inconvenience!
Cool, does it run on a Galaxy Xcover6 Pro with a Verizon plan? I bet it doesn't, nothing does besides the big-2 OS's it seems.
Be nice if Linux phones could be like how Samsung phones used to be before they started removing features to directly compete with Apple smartwatch markets. I don't understand how competition=downgrades because they wanna stretch features out to sell more products than how it used to be when both companies were all about being the One Phone That Does it All. I can afford the one gadget, always have and always will, but especially now when everything is so expensive I can only ever afford the Samsung A-Series not their main marketed S line.
But, do you ever need anything more than a A series phone? Or just want?
I mean I've been using /e/os for a while now and it works like a charm!
I'm so sad it doesn't seem to work with my country's digital solutions or I would've switched right away :(
Like you can't get to their site?
The integration for the apps like digital ID don't work at all
Phone functionality is the least of my problems, I need an open source replacement for Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.
Not sure how that would work, you'd either have to emulate it to talk to the infotainment system, or get all the infotainment producers to add an open source layer... Sounds like a nightmare either way.
We had the AUX jack but they axed it to sell earbuds.
I have heard that Apple removed the headphone jack to kill compatibility with those Square credit card readers.
And yet here I am supporting people who use square credit card readers with Ipads as one of my job responsibilities..... They just switched to bluetooth
That was the purpose of MirrorLink, but I think it's dead now. I only ever saw Volkswagen support it.
I can't wait for Linux phones to be stable enough for a daily driver.
2026 will be the year of the linux phone
Please stop. I can’t get my dick back into my trousers.
Given that Win10 is getting deprecated this year and Win11 has specific hardware requirements, I think 2025 could be the year of the linux PC. I'll be curious to see how massive corporations for which this would mean millions or billions in hardware upgrades to stick with Win will square that circle.
Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows... my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands
I only use my desktop for gaming now but it's old and won't run Win11. I'm going for a SteamOS general release then I'll just drop windows on there altogether
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They are already. My Redmi Note 7 runs Droidian perfectly.
Can Linux mobile OSs install apk apps?
Yeah
Really? I'll have to do some searching online. I have a Mi 10T around here somewhere.
I also have a mi10t! Broken, that is. Idk if you want to know bout it, but it falled down from my bycicle when I was at Sanremo and a car passed on top of it. Screen broken. Tankfully you could still see things and the touch was working, so I managed to get back home (≈100km). But then the next day it wouldn't boot. His soul left me.. He just stayed with me enought time to help me get home...
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