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Free Software Foundation announces a Librephone initiative to develop a fully free and open source smartphone (liliputing.com)
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[–] Saperlipopette@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Exactly.

Through Handelsbanken I have two physical card readers.

  • One is wireless and I can use to authenticate online purchases and login to Handelsbanken. That one works on any browser so it works no problem on Linux. It even has a camera on the back of it to scan QR codes.
  • The second one connects through USB and requires you to download a program that only works on Windows and MacOS. This is the one that is required for all government services, other banks and everything else.

My hope was that I would be able to use the first physical card reader to scan the QR codes that come up for mobile bankID for other sites, but the QR code scanning functionality only works with Handelsbanken's website.

If I could login to everything with the wireless card reader then they wouldn't even need to make a version that specifically works for Linux, just a version that works for all browsers. It doesn't seem like it would need to be that big of a change from perspective.