alt Hacker NewsIf I can't use banking or my NFC wallets on my phone, it has become 90% useless. The other 10% of usefulness is texting and calls, which every other phone can do.
Unfortunately, this mostly means using the closed android ecosystem.
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malfist • yesterday at 6:37 PM
90% of your usage on your phone is banking apps or NFC payments? That seems hard to believe.
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hparadiz • yesterday at 6:19 PM
No idea why you are even bringing this up. It works just fine right now.
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encom • yesterday at 6:49 PM
>this mostly means using the closed android ecosystem
Maybe, but there's no technical reason for this. As I've mentioned before, I can do banking just fine on my Gentoo machine where the entire corpus of software on it, is FOSS and compiled by myself.
I run Graphene on my Pixel and banking apps just work. There is no Google Pay, obviously, since Google dependencies have been stripped out from the system. I just carry a credit card.