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I gave up on rooting mobile devices because I occasionally use streaming services and a lot of them won't work on a rooted phone. Neither will MS Authenticator, which I need for work.
My take is that you shouldn't be allowing your employer to suggest or require that you use your personal phone for anything work related. This trend has set a very bad precedent, and employers should be providing you with a company activated phone for work purposes. I refused to use my personal phone for work authentication and made them send me a numeric authenticator fob. As long as there are folks willing to sacrifice their freedom and independence then it makes it harder for those of us who do draw a clear line in the sand.
When someone wants you to download and use an app it's not for your benefit. It is for theirs.
re: the Xiaomi. Many struggle to get the name right. I believe it's pronounced "sheowmi" think of a cats "meow" with "sh" instead of the m followed by a "me". I remember it as "show-me" but with pain!
Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 version differences the "pro" has Ram 4GB vs 3GB. storage 128GB vs 64GB and NFC Which I don't use. Mines a pro as I need the storage for work photos.
Maps:osmand for navigation.
I used to work all over the UK and the Windows works phone had HERE maps and google maps and I did many comparisons.
I do find osmand a little buggy and slow on to render routes on longer distances but pretty good on time estimates and superb on features. Finding addresses can be a PITA. I'd use icecat to get better address details if osmand was struggling.
I really like that you actually download the maps so can use them like a paper map without the need for GPS and they cover any country in the world.
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My oldest used PC: 1999 imac 333Mhz 256MB PPC abandoned by Debian
kent_dorfman766 wrote: ↑2023-03-01 04:34My take is that you shouldn't be allowing your employer to suggest or require that you use your personal phone for anything work related.
Oh, it's not required. The alternative would be to carry a second work-provided phone or use a separate email account for MFA and to me those options are less than acceptable. Putting MS authenticator on my phone was my choice
we see things not as they are, but as we are.
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Pixel 5A from Google. Started with Project Fi and stayed as they went from beta to stable - Google Fi.
I've been pleased with the service and (family of four) pricing, far cheaper than the popular cell providers. The kids' phones are free, annual sales - motorolas $0 for having a Google Fi account.
I appreciate the organizing (calendar) and texts and data communication for our family
On quest for blue smoke and red rings! Debian 12 Toshiba Satellite C655 | i3 2.3Ghz | Intel HD Graphics 3000 | 8GB RAM | 65GB SSD
We have an Owncloud instance which is used for calendars, contacts, and storage. That data is synced daily for all family members.
Also have a SMS backup that pushes to that cloud instance to preserve text messages.
Between that stuff it makes it easy to replace a new phone when the kids loose theirs, I can just push everything down to it.
For desktop items I use kde connect which can be faster if I need something immediately from the phone on my desktop.
Have VPN and SSH apps on the phone so in an emergency I can tiny finger the larger network with scary typos: )
Old phone was a Samsung Galaxy S9, new one is the S23.
Typo perfectionish.
"The advice given above is all good, and just because a new message has appeared it does not mean that a problem has arisen, just that a new gremlin hiding in the hardware has been exposed." - FreewheelinFrank
I gave up on rooting mobile devices because I occasionally use streaming services and a lot of them won't work on a rooted phone. Neither will MS Authenticator, which I need for work.
My take is that you shouldn't be allowing your employer to suggest or require that you use your personal phone for anything work related. This trend has set a very bad precedent, and employers should be providing you with a company activated phone for work purposes. I refused to use my personal phone for work authentication and made them send me a numeric authenticator fob. As long as there are folks willing to sacrifice their freedom and independence then it makes it harder for those of us who do draw a clear line in the sand.
When someone wants you to download and use an app it's not for your benefit. It is for theirs.
I have done the same things. Company phone also goes into the same Faraday bag as the vehicle transponders when I leave work. Take it out at home and repeat the process. I always treat the device as hostile and untrusted. Sounds paranoid until you have worked in IT for too long and you realize that that phone is a sneaky monitoring listening bomb.
Having moved onto Client work, if they need me to install apps or whatever I do so on an older phone, treat it the same, and wipe the phone between clients.
Typo perfectionish.
"The advice given above is all good, and just because a new message has appeared it does not mean that a problem has arisen, just that a new gremlin hiding in the hardware has been exposed." - FreewheelinFrank
I bought a Cubot phone as soon they came to market. I had been looking for under 6" android phone, but Cubot was the first I found. Standard android, but I use a lot F-droid apps too, for example to sync with Debian.
