Comment by Roark66
20 days ago
I think time quickly approaches when everyone will have one mobile phone for "banking/crypto" and the other for everything else.
Samsung used to have a very cool feature on their phones (perhaps they still do, I switched away from the galaxy line). It was called Knox and was basically containers for your apps.
Unfortunately it was limited to only one secure container. What I did was I had all my secure apps outside the container. And insecure inside. I had a fake address book that had only one phone number in "My Knox" and any app I installed there I could give all the file and address book permissions it wanted. As I knew it could only see what is inside.
That is what we need, but better. I never tried Graphene, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was such a feature thre already. It's kind of obvious.
Interesting. I've never really thought much about Samsung phones because I always felt that they were really full of bloatware and features that seemed to distract more than present usefulness.
Knox sounds like a pretty awesome feature though.
I use `nix-on-droid` on a Pixel 9 running stock Android 16. It provides me with a nix shell that gives me ZSH, Starship prompt, NeoVim, w3m, ssh, alpine, Claude-code, Circumflex (TUI HackerNews Client) and just about anything else I want from the Nix packages ecosystem. I even have NUR ( Nix User Repositories) set up. I daily drive NixOS for work and for Pleasure. It's the most advanced operating system I've ever encountered. I can't wax enough praise.
The closest thing to a truly open source, fully functional and daily used mobile that I ever had was the Nokia N900. Man how I miss that thing. Maemo was Nokia's original Linux-based mobile OS, which ran on the N900/950.
MeeGo was created when Nokia merged Maemo with Intel's Moblin project around 2010. It was supposed to be the future of Nokia smartphones, but Nokia abandoned it in 2011 when they switched to Windows Phone as their primary smartphone platform. Idiots.
Mer was created as an open-source continuation of MeeGo after Nokia dropped it.
Sailfish OS was then built on top of Mer by Jolla, a company founded by former Nokia employees who had worked on MeeGo.
Jolla launched in 2013 with the goal of continuing the Linux mobile vision that Nokia had abandoned. They make phones and tablets.
https://jolla.com/