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by pmontra 1838 days ago
Same for banking apps here in Italy and the OTP generator of our id system.

Plus some apps I don't strictly have to use but I want to: WhatsApp (to use the web app I should run the android one somewhere it can receive messages with my phone number, cough), Telegram (probably OK), OSMAnd, NewPipe as a YouTube adless replacement (YouTube web is not OK), Google Street View and satellite maps (the web app is vastly worse), car sharing apps (less of that now), random apps from my customers.

All considered I'll have to carry an Android phone anyway so I'm carrying only an Android phone. No Linux phone. But I've been using Ubuntu as my only OS since 2009.

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There is a nice plasma mobile replacement for newpipe: https://apps.kde.org/plasmatube/ For telegram the official client works, but you could also use Tok (https://invent.kde.org/network/tok), but yeah for the rest there is no real solution yet :(
> NewPipe as a YouTube adless replacement (YouTube web is not OK)

Actually, Invidious and the likes (viewtube?) are quite good for this. SponsorBlock even works there.

FreeTube makes the phone very hot and is very slow, unfortunately.

Something like NewPipe would be neat though.

> OSMAnd

Something like this is sorely missing. A-GPS isn't integrated in current distros too (a script can load AGPS data in the Phone's modem)