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The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone (www.wired.com)

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The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It’s being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.

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[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

Finland had a similar system. It's the only reason I can't move over to graphene or others.

[-] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

Not all Finnish banks require play services for their apps, if any. Mine works just fine on eOS. Don't know about Mobiilivarmenne, if you'd rather use that

[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Is this a recent change?
I don't know about play services, but a few years ago I received errors that the security of my device was compromised or something, if I installed a different OS, and couldn't use banking apps.

Edit: come to think of it, it wasn't "a few" years, more like "many years" ago.

[-] thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Might it be that you didn't re-lock your bootloader, or so? But if this was many years ago, many things may well have progressed since. I wouldn't know details of that time, just recently switched over from Apple.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You can use the key card for manual input in that case. I had to use it for awhile myself

[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 points 7 months ago

And revert back to the 2000s? No thanks!

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Depending where on 2000 it wasn't that bad. Housing was more affordable for example

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