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My phone runs a desktop GNU/Linux OS with desktop Firefox (or Chromium if installed). If Firefox on desktop stops showing websites correctly, we will have a larger problem than an unsupported niche phone.

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How's your banking apps run on that?

With the money you save by not using Apple, you can afford the cheapest phone compatible with your bank, if they don't have internet banking.

Sure, if you want to carry 2 phones.

I probably never opened one of my banking apps away from home. My main use for them is to authorize the operations I'm doing from my computer. I think that I could keep an Android phone in a drawer and use it as a costly and inconvenient hardware token. By the way, for some reasons credit card companies are doing 2FA by SMS which is both stupid (security wise) and convenient (to break out from Android or iOS.)

I expect that the real problem with using a Linux phone would be WhatsApp, Google Maps (the navigation part), OSMAnd. Telegram desktop maybe works.

I switched to a bank not forcing me into the American duopoly.

Then you’re not using a phone. You’re using a computer which happens to have phone capabilities. Surely you can see how this isn’t particularly useful for most people?

No, I can't. What's the problem?

On modern phones, 99% of interactivity for 99% or users comes via the App Store. Many websites will actively ducktype and send phones to an App Store, which just becomes a broken link on your laptop-with-LTE. Hell, nowadays, some sites will cripple interactions via phone browsers to encourage app use.

If you’re downloading 200 mb pages every time because you’re loading desktop pages on your phone, it’ll be pretty slow and inefficient.

So what are you suggesting? Giving up? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229490

Also PWAs can use local storage.

You asked me to explain why it’s not useful to most people and I did. I don’t particularly care what people do with this information, I just find it annoying to see incomplete pictures.

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