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  • It may be initially inconvenient, but you can choose a bank that offers 2FA/TAN beyond the smartphone app.

    Not sure what healthcare apps you mean. There’s lots of categories, so won’t comment without clarification.

    Same for employers tbh. Would love an example. (Besides: work apps can’t be forced on your private phone in most places.)

    I live in “modern society” and do own a smartphone, but I’m aware that it’s a convenience, not a necessity.


  • I have multiple young-ish (30s) friends that don’t own a phone (not just smartphone; any phone), and basically all people I know above 80 years don’t own one either.

    You can absolutely live a perfectly fine and good life without a smartphone. You’re just drawing the line where it’s convenient for you.

    Or let’s put it in more familiar words…

    [Owning a smartphone] is not “participating in society”, this is participating in, contributing to, and directly benefitting from the very thing they’re complaining about.


















  • Not really… At least not generally. The privacy increase from switching from Android to proper Linux is, to me at least, more important than loosing a locked bootloader.

    That’s just my threat model. I know that Google & Co are extracting as much info about me as humanly possible, and I have no reason to believe that I am being targeted by someone with the capability to exploit the unlocked bootloader.

    Same for my PC btw - secure boot is disabled because it’s not worth the hassle. Again. In my threat model.

    (But I would wager that this goes for a lot of users.)