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Interesting phone. Have considered for quite some time to move to a dumbish phone, or at least something more minimal. Would like to ditch the mindless and low

Interesting phone. Have considered for quite some time to move to a dumbish phone, or at least something more minimal. Would like to ditch the mindless and low friction browsing etc.. but OTOH I would miss Signal/Telegram as it is too much of a benefit to me in daily life, as is Maps. Most of those issues could be dealt with by changing habits/lifestyle (which is the point, to a degree) however for people who have made that plunge... how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps? I would need a second phone with all bells and whistles which defeats the point.

zephyr9 5y ago
> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps? I've been without a smartphone for about two years now and would not go back (although sometimes tempted by the false promise that a shiny new product will bring happiness). It's easy, you just don't treat your phone as secure, do banking on a computer, along with email. 2FA is not magic, it's just another password. Just a password manager like pass [0] can generate 2FA codes, but it's easy enough to do with oathtool [1] that I wrote my own password manager. [0] https://www.passwordstore.org https://www.passwordstore.org [1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/ https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/
- mvdwoord 5y ago
  My current employer (long term contract work) and many other company policies simply require e.g. ms authenticator... Can't find any alternative to that. Is there a way to use company issued ms 2fa without a mobile phone (Android/iOS)?
  - blacksmith_tb 5y ago
    It certainly seems clunky, but you could potentially use something like Bluestacks as a pseudo phone and install Authenticator under it. That wouldn't work for push though (like Duo).

zephyr9 5y ago

> how do you deal with the seeming need for a phone with secure chip for the endless banking and two factor apps? I've been without a smartphone for about two years now and would not go back (although sometimes tempted by the false promise that a shiny new product will bring happiness). It's easy, you just don't treat your phone as secure, do banking on a computer, along with email. 2FA is not magic, it's just another password. Just a password manager like pass [0] can generate 2FA codes, but it's easy enough to do with oathtool [1] that I wrote my own password manager. [0] https://www.passwordstore.org https://www.passwordstore.org [1] https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/ https://www.nongnu.org/oath-toolkit/

mvdwoord 5y ago
My current employer (long term contract work) and many other company policies simply require e.g. ms authenticator... Can't find any alternative to that. Is there a way to use company issued ms 2fa without a mobile phone (Android/iOS)?
- blacksmith_tb 5y ago
  It certainly seems clunky, but you could potentially use something like Bluestacks as a pseudo phone and install Authenticator under it. That wouldn't work for push though (like Duo).