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People should just stop being so addicted to convenience.
Quit internet banking and cardless payments.
Quit internet banking? That's the only form of banking available when the banking offices only have open on every other Tuesday, during the full moon between 11-12:30, closed for an hours lunch.
I don't care for cardless payments, but I do use internet banking, you cannot do without at least here, and government apps too are useful and doing with out is just.... Impossible.
Mobile banking is mandatory here, if not able to do mobile banking then you can use non free SMS messages, which sucks.
Government apps mandatory I mean that without, you are cut from most digital government services, which is not practical at all. Survivable, but a pain.
Methinks anyone fighting the system will have to carry two phones: one phone presenting a fake happy face to the government and corps and usable only for bank transactions and bureaucratic processes, and a degoogled phone for the things we actually want to do, like organizing rallies and redistributing samizdat.
Found the swede? 🇸🇪😁
No, sono Italiano.... But I guess it's similar across the continent...
You say non free SMS messages as if it's otherwise "free", but the product is you.
Utility or privacy, it's your pick. If you value privacy more, you won't give in to utility.
Government apps are the only one I think are hard to do without.
You talk of what you don't know. Bank apps here are mandatory by law. If you don't or can't use a bank app then you can use a SMS verification approach where you are required to PAY SMS that the bank sends you.
Receiving SMS here is free, only those from the bank for verification are to be paid without the bank app, it's just a scam to force you to use the bank app.
The bank app itself is not a scam like a you are the service approach, and it's not free either as you pay the bank services with your bank account fees already. Maybe you don't pay a specific fee for the app, bit you already pay your home banking fees anyway.
For me its maps. Getting directions is mostly why im still on /e/. I would love a linux phone! But im stuck at the moment.
Well, FairPhone has GPS support on Ubuntu and that opens the world to a bunch of native GPS apps
Note that I haven't tested this, I'm an iOS user, but Linux with Fairphone is starting to sound better and better. I moved from Android to iOS because Android started feeling so restrictive compared to what it used to be in the single digit version numbers era, it stopped making sense to prefer it over the more convenient OS. Now it seems Linux on certain phones is starting to get usable enough that it can be what Android used to be a decade ago when I still liked it.
Friend have a non-google fairphone and has some maps-like app that works at least well enough.
Her bank app worked most of the time? Guess it's a cat & mouse game until it's finally established or killed.
Interesting i may have to give it a shot.
Do let everyone know if you do, I think there's actually quite a few people here who'd be willing to make the change to Linux if the Fairphone is truly as well supported as the UBPorts website claims
100%. I have one app for work that i also need. Do you happen to know if two oses can work on a phone? Like grub allows?
I don't think you can, but some apps may work with WayDroid