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So I've got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can't always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

So, what do others do? At the moment, I've thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can't see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

The state of the phone market is pitiful.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly will not put ANY banking app on my phone. There is a risk of getting mugged or murdered for it. I keep a crypto wallet there with abut $50.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand; how would a potential mugger or murderer know ahead of time that you don't have a banking app installed on your phone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They don't, but if they force me to unlock the phone, it won't do them any good either. Doesn't help if they point a gun at me at an Atm.