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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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.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    With Motorola going with GrapheneOS and Jolla coming back with a Linux phone, I wonder how Denmark will react. Will the Danish government make versions of Mit ID for these operating systems?

    For those who don’t know, “nemkonto” is a centralised digital ID system in the Danish government to which all your things are tied. You use a security app called “Mit ID” to log into places that make use of your personal information.

    Your bank requires your Mit ID, your doctor requires your Mit ID, your ISP requires your Mit ID. Every time you log into anything remotely official you are required to log in with Mit ID.

    On Android it requires Google’s security services and a locked down phone to function. So rooting is not an option, as it takes away your ability to use your phone to simply… Exist… As a citizen.

    You can get a code key device from the Kommune, but you can only use that to log into things through the Web browser of your PC. On your phone you are required to use the app, and if thr app doesn’t work then you’re simply not logging in. Something as basic as checking your bank balance becomes a major annoyance.

      • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 month 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.socialEnglish
          1·
          1 month 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.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 month 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.

    • ArcticDagger@feddit.dkEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Re: the code device. All apps requiring MitID works perfectly fine on the phone without the app as far as I can tell. There’s no need to use the web browser of your PC. Source: I had the code device and a phone with e/os/

    • testaccount372920@piefed.zipEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      I’ve felt the pain of the mitID strictness, it really sucks. But can’t you request the desktop version of a site om your phone when logging in and using the code key device?

      • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        The MitID keygen works on mobile browsers, it just has to be chromium based and all telemetry enabled. It is not a nice experience, but in a pinch it’s doable.

          • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dkEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Yea it sucks, but that’s sadly how it is for most danish government sites. It’s almost like everything is hardcoded for chromium and anyone not using that can get fucked. That is at least my experience though I should mention that librewolf on Linux works flawlessly.