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My biggest concern with using a phone sans ios/android is not being able to use the ID app used in Sweden for basically everything important. It's used everywhere now, banks, government, my kids preschool, insurance etc etc.

As soon as I can figure out a way around this I'm going back to a feature phone.

My dreamphone is iPhone 3gs sized, has gps and maps, Hotspot and the app I mentioned before.

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You could run Android in a container. I run an android container and Linux container, thought not at the same time on a computer with mobile specs: Intel Celeron N3060, RAM: 2 GB SSD: 8 GB and I can use Snapchat, Instagram, VS Code, etc

A well configured OS is magic, and with Lamby on the purism team, I'm sure it's going to knock socks off.

That's interesting. How did you get that container running? I tried running Android via anbox and my laptopb basically exploded as the Android container suddenly allocated more than two gigabytes of ram (having been running Firefox didn't help...).

Have you got some notes or a blog post about that? I would really really be interested. TY in advance!

Agreed! I'm curious about how well it will run on the phone!

Very glad that Norway has a dedicated OTP device as an option for identity services (BankId). Nothing like that in Sweden?

Nope, what kind of device is it? I have an old keypad but that only works for the bank.

Late reply I know.

It just has one button and a display that shows the one-time-code. "Bankid kodebrikke" brings up some examples on Google Image search. Here is one: https://www.landkredittbank.no/contentassets/125021c1cec6435...

So this works for other services as well? In that case they should definitely offer a similar option in Sweden as well.

I think I'm going to research the android in container solution cause I'm leaning more and more towards remoting in to a PC for all my needs not being met by a purism librem.

Yes, BankId is a valid identity provider for all Norwegian government services online, in addition to your bank. There are 4 other valid identity providers.

Is it not based on an open protocol?

Cant you fall back to a physical card? Is having a flat phone while driving illegal in sweden?

I'm terrified of a future in which it's basically illegal to not have a phone. China has already done this to Uyghurs.

there is a chance with anbox. however the project is very rough right now and never was gotten to work on ubuntu touch. hopefully they dont use too much of google play services very annoying device verificaton systems as well.

Anbox can actually run on UBPorts devices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdiIwXK2ssQ

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