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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Owell1984@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Don't say, hey android has Linux in it, yeah no, idc, I want to know how far we are from buying a Linux phone at a price point of 200 USD.

A Linux phone is one which is built completely on Linux, uses Linux apps and most important has a terminal.

I don't want a Linux Phone for privacy, although that's a great reason, but I want it for the freedom it provides me. Hell, I don't care if Android itself comes with a terminal and has similar features to Linux, I just want a Terminal which can install apps, where I can write commands and it will execute it. Complete Control on my phone and how it behaves is what I want.

I want to tell it when to sleep, when not to sleep, when to boot, when to edit a file and how, when to take a screenshot and what to do with it and where to save it, etc, etc. I hope you get the idea.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

We do banking with general purpose computers. How do you figure banking will be a sticking point?

[-] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Things like androidpay/apple pay type functions require a chain of security checks, on Android it's levels of safety net. some banking apps require similar

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ive been on Graphene OS for a few months now and can confirm that banking apps work, but Google Wallet does not. One of my banking apps required me to toggle off hardened malloc in favor of Android's standard malloc though, which definitely had me raising an eyebrow.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about banks it’s that they were still using ie 8 when nobody else was.

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