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Which banking app? I can try to install and launch it, tho I probably won't ask for your login to test that, haha

And as a follow up question to this, are there any container apps to run those apps that won't work in a way that they think they are running on stock android?

my bank app is specificially listed as working but i would def check

Depends on the bank. Graphene has support for seedvault backups, or you could use syncthing-fork to sync the data over. Or any one of those Foss airdrop clones

Nope, but you can use their web apps.

Not sure about backing up apps, never looked into it.

Lead dev accepts donations for the project (username "thestinger" on github)

Why would you rather see that over graphene? Don't know enough about either

Same. They just don't do what I need on my phone. Hopefully that changes, but PinePhone HW kinda sucks (poor battery life and audio quality), and most of the other phones w/ Linux support have some pretty serious caveats.

Same, I'm really tired of the annoying Android logic. I wish we could have a logical OS where we could manage our files properly instead of the filesystem mess we currently have with stuff all over the place.

It didn't matter when the phones just had a few megs of storage, but you can carry some serious data on those things nowadays.

Isn't android technically linux?

Oracle has been coasting on legacy crap for a long time. They're just like IBM.

I think free cloud compute offerings are a bit different. Different motivations. They aren't trying to harvest your data, they are trying to advertise their product.

They want sysadmins to play around and convince their bosses to buy in on Oracle. They want web devs to build demos and get their clients to host there. They want companies to get their feet wet risk free, before spending tens of thousands of dollars migrating existing workloads to them.

Harvesting data from those customers would be a scandal, and have massive negative repercussions.

And honestly, even with the announcement of Stargate and Oracle being a partner, I'd probably rather give them a couple dollars a month to run a couple small buckets than to give it to Amazon.

I can't self host at home because no incoming IP. Unless I want to switch to my only other option, Xfinity. Which I don't.

And...let's face it...if the government wants to find me, they are going to find me. It doesn't matter if my Bluesky PDS or my kids Minecraft server is hosted at home or up there. It's tied to me either way.

It rules!