Born 1983, He/him, Danish AuDD introvert that’s surfed the internet since he was a teen (1996 onwards).
I had this idea 30 years ago lol. Bicycling in headwinds in windy and flat Denmark gives you a lot of time to think of dumb shit like that, like what if I put small wind turbines on my bike which generated electricity to give me a boost?
We’ve had windmills as part of the landscape here for a long time after all, so it wasn’t exactly rocket science to think that one up.
Cryptomator works on Android as well.
That or CryFS sounds like the way to go from the replies I’ve looked at now. Thanks for the recommendation!
Thank you for the tip. Disgusting how “features” like this are turned on by default.
If I wanted to encrypt everything I put on OneDrive, hopefully something that is crossplatform, how’d I do that? I’m on linux right now.
EDIT: A quick search brings up VeraCrypt a bunch of times and it’s apparently FOSS, does anyone have experiences with it?
With all the glowing reviews I’ll probably go with Aegis then. I had been looking at FreeOTP and FreeOTP+ as well.
Yes, NFC works in custom roms.
That’s good to hear.
Yeah, I really shot myself in the foot when I originally went with Authy. I remember looking around for an alternative to Google Authenticator back in ~2014 when I got my first smartphone, and Authy was recommended at the time. Had I been more worried about FOSS back then I might’ve picked a better solution.
Thanks, that’s actually great to hear. Otherwise I could’ve spent weeks looking into the differences. Surprisingly crDroid is offering a version based on Android 16 for my device, they seem ahead of the curve.
Thanks for the suggestions. I’m on an older phone, Samsung A52 5G so there’s not a lot of options. Of the ones you mentioned I checked and crDroid was the only one that supported it for sure.
Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking as well. I just like /e/OS defaults better. But having tried LineageOS via Waydroid I think I’ll be fine using that. I can probably harden it manually if needed.
I spent the whole weekend going through every possible step. I installed Android-x86, I installed Android Studio, I installed Waydroid. Authy will not run on a rooted device.
I downloaded the Snap version of Authy Desktop v. 2.2.3, but alas, they’ve closed all the loopholes.
It’s always a pain to move 2FA keys to a new app.
Yeah. Sucks. But I’ve been registrering all new 2FA keys in both Authy and KeePassXC since I moved to Linux, so hopefully it’s not as bad as I think it’ll be, at least I’ll have KeePassXC TOTP setup for maybe >20% of my accounts.
I honestly don’t use my phone much either, it’s as you say, mostly for text based messages.
like my number is set to private and I’m on the “Robinson” list, and if someone calls that’s not in my contacts list I don’t pick up. Cold calls is how they get ya, and once they know there’s someone picking up, it’s like sharks smelling blood.
The app I use the most, besides my banking app (which I’ve confirmed works in waydroid aka LineageOS), is probably the Lidl app 😂.
I do still use Google Pay quite a bit, but I’m fine going back to card. I don’t even know if NFC works in LineageOS or /e/OS.
And like you said, as long as the phone can do some GPS stuff for navigation, that’s mostly all I need. And browse the internet (IronFox) every now and then.
Yeah, I’m fixing to move to either /e/OS or LineageOS. I’m leaning /e/OS, but I’m worried it’s less supported than LineageOS for a newbie like myself. On a side note, I also need to go through all my Authy 2FA keys and refresh them because Authy is too locked down to work on anything but a “real” android phone. That’s going to be another PITA.
Actually, that jostled my memory a bit, I just remembered that I saw a veritasium video about this a month ago or so, while it wasn’t about generating electricity and using that for a motor, but just straight up wind to mechanical energy.