Canuck

joined 2 years ago
[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There are Google Play Android bank apps (mine works fine), and you can use mobile sites as dedicated app drawer icons. Their mobile site is top notch.

NFC payments won't come anytime soon to native GNU/Linux, but I don't use them. Maybe Google Wallet works, I haven't tried and don't know if NFC can be passed through to Waydroid. OnePlus 6 is the best supported originally Android phone for GNU/Linux, someone with that would need to test.

I just have my card in a silicon sleeve on the back of the phone and I get the same effect. I'd rather Google not have my purchase history anyways.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Satnav there is Pure Maps (OSM client), which can connect to sources like HERE to get traffic data to provide voiced guided turn-by-turn instructions. Of course there is also all the Android apps like Google Maps available, and their mobile site works fine.

On the topic of mobile sites, you can also install them as dedicated app drawer icons via Gnome Web & Firefox PWA for any site.

This means if your bank app doesn't like vanilla Android, GApps, you can use a comparable dedicated web app.

For parking, I've found a surprising amount have mobile sites, so I don't need to install their bloaty Android app onto my GNU/Linux phone.

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Crocket & Jones (British) makes fine leather shoes. I've seen other good Italian leather shoe makers

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Waydroid, Anbox, etc

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Mobile GNU/Linux is getting better, but I think it is 5-10 years out from what's needed. I suppose people need to adopt Desktop first. The nice thing is you can install Android apps including Google Play on it natively, and they appear in your app drawer like a regular app

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Ha, wait until they hear who the main developers are for Lemmy! Not much moral consistency

[–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Consider PikaOS if you like to game, which is based on Debian and provides an easy way to pick you desktop environment. Bazzite may shut down if Fedora gets rid of 32-bit libraries as planned https://wiki.pika-os.com/en/home

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